Tânia Santos is, since 2005, professor at the Higher School of Education and Social Sciences at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria. She is responsible for and has been teaching several courses in the areas of Economics and Management. She holds a PhD in Financial Economics and Accounting from the University of Extremadura, with the presentation of the thesis “Financial Solvency of European Union Pension Systems”, and a master's degree in Economics from the University of Coimbra, with the presentation of the thesis “Regional Disparities in Employment and Unemployment in Portugal. She is an integrated researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA), having as main research interests the themes of pension systems, entrepreneurship, social economy organizations and financial literacy, upon which she has been part of research teams and authored various publications. She has also been part of several international projects, including: Co-creation Project “Link Me Up-1000 ideas-Support System for Co-creation of Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship” | DEMOLA, 2021; international project for cooperation in Portuguese language teaching and research “Portuguese Language as an Applied Foreign Language (Commercial Relations China - Lusophone Countries)”, with the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal, and the Polytechnic Institute of Macau as participating entities; and the “Education Program for Financial Literacy, which aims to understand the level of financial literacy of students at the Polytechnic of Leiria, Portugal, and implement actions that promote the increase of the respective financial literacy, as well as evaluate the results resulting from this implementation.