Catarina Sales Oliveira is associate professor at the University of Beira Interior (UBI) and a researcher at CIES-IUL (Center for Research and Studies in Sociology). She is currently the director of the master in Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Her research interests are gender and citizenship ; mobility, transports, and inequalities; work, entrepreneurship and organizations. She developed these specializations through several multidisciplinary European research projects such as RESISTANCE (on cultural resistances from a gender perspective), YES (on skills recognition and labor mobility in the construction sector) or SPEED (on the improving of entrepreneurial skills of young people). She works promoting gender equality both in higher education and at the local community level, participating in projects such as VELEDA - Mulheres em rede (a collaborative empowering approach to single mothers) and until 2021 as a chairman of the UBI Equality Commission (CI-UBI) in an action-research approach. She is currently particularly interested in the connections between mobilities, local development and grass root initiatives.