Experience

CRU Creative Hub

• Portugal
• Retail Art Supplies
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder and Manager

  • Feb 2012 - Present

  In 2012, after having realized that a large part of the creative persons from Oporto was working from home and had great difficulty in finding points of sale or of exhibition for their works, I decided to establish CRU Creative Hub, in the artistic block of the city of Oporto. It is a place of collaboration, sharing, and creation.CRU is a creative hub that combines a coworking space focused on creative activities, an art gallery, workshops, and a designers' shop, in it's 400sq meters. More than 40 creatives work daily at our space, and our community exceeds 250 people. Most of them are freelancers and solopreneurs in the Cultural and Creative Industries field. Our mission is to provide the best conditions to maintain this community active, thriving and international while enhancing the individual potential of each one of our freelancers or startups founders.For that, we offer spaces and services at bearable costs, in an environment that is appropriate for artistic creation, productivity, networking, collaborations, and ultimately, contributes to the well-being and friendships among coworkers. Today, CRU is a reference spot that joins a community of established and emergent creative people in the city.

• Formadora

  • 2019 - Present

  #Creative Entrepreneurship#Community Building / Management



European Creative Hubs Network

• Greece
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member Board Of Directors - Vice President

  • Apr 2019 - Present

  The European Creative Hubs Network is a peer-led network with a mission to enhance the creative, economic and social impact of hubs.As focal points for creative businesses, hubs offer the most effective way to support the growth and development of creative industries. To achieve this, hubs themselves need to network, to pool resources, share best practices, and build on advocacy, policy and opportunities.It is clear that the European Creative Hubs Network offers the best route to support hubs, and hence Europe’s creative industries.

• Interim Steering Committee Member

  • Jul 2018 - Apr 2019

  European Creative Hubs Network (ECHN) is created as a community of experienced creative hub leaders across Europe, in order to enhance the ecosystem that supports the development and growth of the creative hubs and cultural and creative industries sector, and to promote creative hubs as innovative models to the European policy makers and funders.



Indie Workers

• Portugal
• Non-profit Organization Management

• Founder

  • Jun 2019 - Present

  We are organizing a bootcamp for creative freelancers and solopreneurs.Porto: 18 - 20 October 2019, save the date and stay tuned! We are organizing a bootcamp for creative freelancers and solopreneurs.Porto: 18 - 20 October 2019, save the date and stay tuned!