Miguel Sousa has a proven experience in designing and delivering transnational exchange and learning activities as can be understood in more than 20 EU projects that he coordinated over the last 15 years. He is an invited speaker on Innovation, EU policies, European Territorial Cooperation, Energy, Transport and Information Technologies topics in conferences at national and international level, having been invited speaker on events organized by the European Commission, Government of Portugal, and the Regional Managing Authorities. Since 2012, he is an Urbact Lead Expert, first for the project Wood FootPrint from Urbact II and at the present for the project Agri-Urban from Urbact III. He is also member of the Portuguese “National Network of Mentors for Young entrepreneurs”, a national initiative promoted by the Portuguese government to foster entrepreneurship of young graduates, where has been mentoring several Start-up projects. He is the CEO of Index Talent a business angel fund with a portfolio of 10 Start-Up companies. Also, he acts as evaluator of several EU programmes, such as H2020, Eureka – Eurostars, H2020 Fast Track to Innovation and CIP Eco-innovation programme and ENPI CBCMED programme. To complement his strong background on innovation, he is a certified expert in R&D+innovation management by NP 4457:2007 and NP 4458:2007 and certified as an auditor by ISO 19011.