Conversations on Adult Education
17 September 2025 | 17h30 (Portuguese time) | Online
Moderators: José Pedro Amorim and António Fragoso

CONVERSATION WITH...
This is a cycle of spontaneous conversations about Adult Education, ‘without net’, in which the interviewees don't know the issues under discussion beforehand. It's a joint initiative between CEAD (Centre for Research in Adult Education and Community Intervention, University of the Algarve), CIIE (Centre for Educational Research and Intervention, University of Porto) and the Paulo Freire Institute in Portugal. We have already spoken to Licínio Lima, Alberto Melo, Luiza Cortesão, Lucília Salgado, and Luís Rothes.

In the sixth event of this cycle, we will host a conversation with Olívia Santos Silva. 

OLÍVIA SANTOS SILVA has a degree in Education Sciences, specialising in Community Animation and Adult Education, from the School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto.
She has a postgraduate degree in Education Sciences – Adult Education, from the University of Minho.
She began working in adult education in 1980, in the Braga Integrated Development Project of the Directorate-General for Adult Education, and ended in 2011 as Regional Coordinator of ENOP (New Opportunities Team).
From January 1998 to September 1999, she was appointed by the Diário da República (Official Gazette) to the Task Force for the Development of Adult Education and Training, coordinated by Dr. Alberto Melo.
In September 1999, she moved to the National Agency for Adult Education and Training, where she served as Regional Coordinator for the North until 2002.
With the closure of ANEFA and the creation of the Directorate-General for Vocational Training, in 2003 she began coordinating the Office for Adult Education and Training at the Northern Regional Directorate for Education.
From July 2007, she was Coordinator of the DREN New Opportunities Team, with the rank of Director of Services.

She has performed and continues to perform several other functions, notably:
- Mobilisation and revitalisation of the institutional fabric of adult education and training in the Northern Region.
- Trainer of trainers in numerous training activities in the field of Adult Education and Training, promoted by various public and private entities.
- Lecturer at the Porto School of Education in the areas of Sociology, Project Design and Development, Research and Training Projects, Community Intervention and Adult Education.
- Coordinated and participated in various Trainer Training Projects, community intervention and animation projects, and evaluation and research projects with the Universities of Minho and Porto and several other services and institutions.

She has published works in various national and international magazines and publications, particularly UNESCO.

To participate, send an email to jpamorim@fpce.up.pt (José Pedro Amorim).