We are pleased to announce the AlumniTalks@eeg with Bárbara Costa, Bachelor in International Relations. In AlumniTalks@eeg, EEG graduates come back to school to share the stories of their professional careers with the current students and tell us about the projects in which they are involved.

The session will take place on 5th May at 18:00. The language in this session is Portuguese.

Bárbara holds an undergraduate degree in International Relations – with focus on cultures and politics – by EEG | UMinho. She has over 20 years of experience in International Relations and Institutional Cooperation in Higher Education. Between March 2014 and January 2021 she was the Director of the International Relations Office and the Institutional Coordinator of the Erasmus+ Programme at the University of Porto. Roughly during the same period, she was member of the executive committee of SGroup Universities in Europe and one of the coordinators of the Think Tank 4Latin America. Between 2002 and 2014 she was the liaison officer of the University of Porto at the SGroup Universities. Under her leadership, the University of Porto was awarded with several grants financed by the Erasmus+ programme in all of its key actions (KA1, KA2, KA3). Prior to this, she was responsible for the management of 46 Erasmus Mundus Action2 projects, nice projects coordinated by the University of Porto, and 37 projects in partnership with institutions across the world. Between 2011 and 2017, Bárbara Costa was also the executive coordinator in the University of Porto’s participation as a technical partner in 6 projects financed by the Intra-ACP actions (2 in Africa, 3 in the Caribbean, and 1 in the Pacific), and Intra-Africa on which the University of Porto offers technical support to the coordination of these EU backed projects.