Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Ines Rapazote has extensive experience in journalism and communication, currently serving in the Serviço de Comunicação at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation since January 2018. Prior to this role, Ines Rapazote worked as a journalist for newsmagazine VISÃO from June 2011 to January 2018 and authored the book "Por mais escura que seja a noite... amanhã é outro dia" in January 2017. Ines Rapazote also contributed as a sporadic collaborator for the Programa Descobrir at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation from 2012 to 2016 and held press advisory positions for the Minister of Education and the Minister of Defense from 2006 to 2011. Ines Rapazote began the journalism career at Jornal de Noticias from January 1998 to August 1999, following earlier experience at newsmagazine VISÃO. Ines Rapazote holds a degree from Universidade Católica Portuguesa and completed studies at UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles and École Européenne de Bruxelles II.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is a Portuguese private institution of public utility whose statutory aims are in the fields of arts, charity, education and science. Created by a clause in Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian's will, the Foundation's statutes were approved in 1956. The Foundation actively pursues its statutory aims in Portugal and abroad through a wide range of direct activities and grants supporting projects and programmes. The Foundation has an orchestra and a choir that perform throughout the year within a regular season, and organises solo and collective exhibitions of work by Portuguese and foreign artists. It also organises international conferences, meetings and courses, awards subsidies and scholarships for specialist studies and doctorates in Portugal and abroad, and supports programmes and projects of a scientific, educational, artistic and social nature. Moreover, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is actively involved in publishing, especially through its programme for university textbooks. It also fosters co-operation projects with Portuguese-speaking African countries and East Timor pursuing the Millennium goals, promotes Portuguese culture abroad, and operates a programme to preserve evidence of the Portuguese presence in the world. In addition to the activities pursued in Portugal and abroad for the promotion of Portuguese culture, the Foundation supports the Armenian Diaspora worldwide in order to preserve its language and culture.