Albino Cunha, PhD in Educational Sciences, Speciality: Intercultural Education (Universidade Aberta de Lisboa, 2012), is Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas/ISCSP-Universidade de Lisboa and researcher at Centro de Estudos das Migrações e Relações Interculturais/CEMRI - Universidade Aberta de Lisboa. He has developed his career in the Mediterranean and North African Studies, more specifically, the importance of Youth and Intercultural Educationl for rethinking cultural relationships between Europe and the Maghreb, highlighting the legacy of the Mediterranean as the thread to rethink those relationships. In fact, he is developing comparative research on youth in Mediterranean countries. He began his research on the relationship between Europe and the Maghreb in 2005, specifically on the relations between Morocco and Portugal, always from the perspective of young people, after publishing a book entitled «O Mediterrâneo: a Juventude, a Europa e o Magrebe» (The Mediterranean: Youth, Europe and Maghreb- Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, 2005). He is a researcher at the Centro de Estudos das Migrações e Relações Interculturais/CEMRI - Universidade Aberta de Lisboa since 2008 and is the responsible researcher of the Intercultural Communication Group where he works the questions of European and North African youth from a cross-cultural and comparative perspective. He is also part of the Observatório da Deficiência e Direitos Humanos (Disability and Human Rights Observatory) at Instituto Superior de Ciências e Políticas Sociais, where he works the issues of social inclusion and disabled people in the Maghreb. At Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas/ISCSP-Universidade de Lisboa, parallel to teaching the disciplines of Childhood and Youth Policies and Housing Policies (Social Work Degree) until 2015; Education and Training Policies (Master in Social Policy), Culture and Society: Maghreb and Arab World (Master in African Studies), Sociology of Education (Degree in Sociology) and Ethnography Area of Africa: North Africa (Degree in Anthropology), until now, he is also Supervisor of the training programme integrated into the final evaluation of the Degree in Social Work in the areas of Children and Youth (Childhood and Youth Policies; Values and Practices of Young People; Social Innovation and Civic Commitment of Young People; The Young and the School; Youth and Family; Youth Violence; Education for citizenship and Youth; Intercultural Education and Youth; Social Inclusion of Young Migrants). Because of academic and scientific activities related with personal interests, in 2000, he began to learn Arabic at Instituto de Estudos e Árabes Islâmicos da Faculdade de Letras - Universidade de Lisboa, then at Instituto Oriental da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade Nova de Lisboa and currently at Instituto de Estudos Orientais - Universidade Católica de Lisboa. Academic areas: International Relations, Sciences of Education (Intercultural Education), Social Work, Social Policy, Anthropology, Sociology and History/Geography. Areas of scientific activity: The Mediterranean, Interculturality, Migrations, Youth; Interculturality, Education and Training of Young People in the Euro-Mediterranean Area, namely between Europe and the Maghreb; Social Inclusion and Disabled People in the Maghreb.