Filipa Gomes Ferreira, is master’s in environmental engineering, profile Environmental Systems Engineering profile at the NOVA School of Science and Technology | FCT NOVA. Researcher in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at FCT NOVA, and PhD student in E-Planning at the same institution with the topic “Collaborative processes evaluation in planning for sustainability - from theory to practice”. In recent years, she has been part of the team of national and international projects working in the field of governance, collaborative decision-making processes, stakeholder's engagement, and environmental literacy.