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"Artistic Practices for Social Inclusion: A Broader View from Grant Giving to Museum Participatory Projects" Susana Gomes da Silva graduated with a degree in history from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the New University of Lisbon in 1994 and a postgraduate degree in museum studies and education from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona, Spain in 2000. Her specialization is in education and communication in museums by the University of Leicester (England, 2004). Since 2001, Susana has been developing professional activities in the field of education in museums. She is the author of several publications on the specialty and an invited teacher in many academic and non-academic institutions at the national and international level. From July 2002 to January 2017, Susana directed the Educational Service of the Modern Art Center of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), and she is currently the education officer of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. Hugo Martinez de Seabra is a project manager at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Social Cohesion and Integration Programme in Portugal. He is responsible for the work on two main areas: migrations and artistic practices for social inclusion. With an MA in sociology, Hugo joined the Gulbenkian Foundation in 2005 to help with setting up projects in the migration/integration field. Since 2013, Hugo has managed the initiative PARTIS, supporting organisations that apply artistic practices as a methodology to empower under-served communities through grants, capacity building, and network development.