Carina Dantas has a degree in Law, post graduate studies in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and is Innovation Director at Cáritas Coimbra. Carina is Vice-President of the European Covenant on Demographic Change, and Main Coordinator of group D4 of the EIP-AHA. Also Coordinator of the Thematic Network on Smart Healthy Age-friendly Environments and Member of the Standing Committee on Policy and Advocacy of the International Health Literacy Association. She manages several national and international projects and collaborates with Portuguese and European organisations and networks e.g. member of the Advisory Board of the CSA Homes4lifes (certification of smart living), reviewer of the Integrated Care Foundation Journal and Organising Committee of AAL Forum 2018 and 2019.