Vítor Silva is currently responsible for the team working in the Outreach and Community Relations Office, and he is also PhD student in Science Education and Dissemination; he has a Biology and Geology degree (2004) with a specialisation in Geology for Teaching. From 2017 to 2021, he served as a member of the General Council of the University of Porto. He is a co-author of some books about Biology and Geology targeted at secondary school students. He designed or helped to develop several actions of science communication directed to a young audience but also to the public at large. Since 2006 he has been the coordinator of U. Porto’s Junior University project, responsible for assembling the different activities that are proposed into coherent educational programs while also managing the webpage and database of the U.Jr., as well as evaluating the impact of the program, subject on which he has already presented several communications in national and international conferences. He was also a national coordinator of an H2020 European Project and has applied for other foundlings.
