Isabel Costa Pereira

Isabel Pereira has been Research Manager at CINTESIS since 2016, being especially focused on project management and national funding sources. Graduated in Economics from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto (FEP), Isabel Pereira began her professional career at the Portuguese Association of Knitting and Clothing Industries. At the end of 2002, it transferred to the Portuguese Furniture Trade Association, having promoted the legalization and dynamization of the association and its incorporation into the Collective Efficiency Strategies in 2008.

With an enormous experience in the elaboration of projects competing for national funds and in the mediation with funding sources, promoters and government bodies, Isabel Pereira assumed the management of the Cluster of Furniture Companies in Portugal, having been at the genesis of the Collective Efficiency Strategies, in representation of the Furniture Sector.

In 2013, she developed the Consulting and Projects Department at Calculus Projects (Emibra), where she monitored several projects in the areas of internationalization, productive innovation and health.