Luara Maranhão

Graduated in Social Communication at School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo (ECA-USP) and with a master´s degree in Social Intervention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (FEUC). She is a junior researcher in CES being dedicated to research projects on Social Enterprises. Currently is a member of TIMES – Institutional Trajectories and Social Enterprise Models in Portugal and previously of MAPPING – Up-date of the mapping of social enterprises and their eco-systems in Europe. Also worked in a Brazilian b-corp (Natura) as sustainability coordinator carrying out Local Development projects. Her current fields of research interest are social enterprises, social innovation, social change, social entrepreneurship, third sector and sustainability.