Anabela Moura is Coordinator in Art Education at Higher School of Education, Viana do Castelo Polytechnic, Portugal. BA-Painting, Fine Arts, at Porto University, Art Education MA at De Montfort University in Leicester (1993), UK; Art Education PhD at the University of Surrey/ Roehampton (2000), London, UK. She coordinated Art Education and Art and Cultural Management undergraduate and post graduate Degrees and she has been involved in projects related to identity, culture and citizenship, through artistic expressions. She has collaborated with national and international researchers in projects funded by PRAXIS, Gulbenkian Foundation, COMENIUS, FCT, Measure 3, British Council and ERASMUS +, European Union Programme. Moura was the national coordinator of two international projects -Images and Identity (2008-2010) and Creative Connections (CC) and has a particular interest in the development of art activism actions and cultural management with young people and how these are evolved in educational settings. She was the Coordinator of the International Rural Project 3.0: Service Learning for the Rural Development. She aims to develop and promote an active inter-country dialogue, specifically between researchers, to enhance understanding of different perspectives on European service-learning methods and active rural development strategies. Inherent to this is the interest in the development of social responsibility and awareness of cultural and social entrepreneurship. She coordinated 13 editions of the international journal ¿Diálogos com a Arte¿ at Viana do Castelo Polytechnic Institute [www.ese.ipvc.pt/revistadialogoscomaarte] and she has publications and critical reviews in national and international books and journals.