Filipa Corais
Responsible for the mobility division of Braga City Hall
Municipality of Braga and University of Minho
Braga- Portugal, Portugal
I'm an architect and urban planner. In my PhD I have developed and methodology to accelerate the change of behaviors and mindsets to the sustainable mobility.
My organisation
Municipality of Braga and University of Minho
Municipality of Braga and University of Minho
City Authority / Municipality / Region
Braga, Portugal, Portugal
About me
She is currently working on her PhD at the School of Architecture, University of Minho, having obtained a research grant from MIT-Portugal/FCT (SFRH/BD/151416/2021). She has a degree in Architecture from the University of Coimbra (completed in December 1998) and a master's degree in "Planning and Design of the Urban Environment" from the Faculties of Architecture and Engineering of the University of Porto (completed in July 2004).
She`s also the Head of Mobility Department at the Municipality of Braga, Portugal.
She has also completed the following complementary courses:
2024 – Erasmus + ; Course “Digital languages for the comparative study of the historic City and the visualization of analysis models”; University of Naples Federico II, University of Minho and Rovira i Virgili University;
2024 – ENE.001x: Transformative Living labs in Urban Climate Action and Transportation Plannig – MITx, an on-line learning initiative;
2023 - Doctoral course "The Antropocene Materiality, and society", University of Gothenburg; 2022 -SRH Intercultural Webinar Architecture, University of Heidelberg;
2022 - Doctoral course "Reflexive and Critical Perspectives onSustainability Transitions", KTH Royal Institute of Technology Centre for Autonomous Systems, Suécia;
2022-Leadership Bootcamp MIT-Portugal;
2022 - SGroup PhD Training and Competition;
2022 – Summer School of Open Science - 2022, UM;
2022/ 23 ITEM+ (Architectural Reset: Theory and Design for theBuild Environment), University of Heidelberg;
2022/2021 - Training course for leaders - GEPAL, FEFAL;
2020 - Team Leadership and Motivation, GTI;
2018 - Mini-course "Urban Planning and Management of Traffic and Transportation", part of the Master's Degree in Urban Engineering, University of Minho;
2017- Mobility Management Course, FEUP – University of Porto;
2017 - Training on pedestrian safety and accessibility in municipalities, IGAP.
She was a guest lecturer at:
- Escola Superior Agrária de Ponte de Lima - IPVC, having taught in the Urban and Rural Planning curricular unit, in the Master's Course in Environmental Management and Spatial Planning and in the CTeSP in Risks and Civil Protection and Geoinformatics and Natural Resources Management (2008-2024).
- In occasional undergraduate and master's classes at the University of Minho, in the School of Engineering and Architecture;
- University of Para - Belém, in the extension project "CIDADE PARA TODOS: workshops for popular participation in urban mobility planning" - PIBEX of the Pro-Rectory of Extension - PROEX/UFPA,
- in UC class: modul 5 "analyse des Bestandes"; SRH University Heidleberg, School of Engineering and Architecture - Germany (online).
- She was a jury member for several master's and bachelor's degree presentations at IPVC and the University of Minho.
The incessant articulation of the theoretical component of research with practical application in the territory is consummated in the coherence of the various activities and in the publications and articles that it develops, highlighting the most recent publications of articles in the Future Transportation magazine and book chapters in IOP, publishing, addressing issues of mobility.
Corais et al (2022). Between the Unstoppable and the Feasible: The Lucid Pragmatism of Transition Processes for Sustainable Urban Mobility: A Literature Review"; Future Transportation 2, no. 1: 86-114. https://doi.org/10.3390/futuretransp2010006)..)
https://craft-cities.eu/stories/the-transition-experiments-in-braga/
AWARDS
- Abayomi Academy International Award 2024, 1st place in the category of Conscious Citizenship
- Ciudades e Vilas que Caminan 2023
- European Mobility Week Award 2022, European Commission - DG-Move;
- Honorable Mention of the National Sustainability Award 2030 business; in the category Well-being and Sustainable Cities, with the project presented by the Municipality of Braga: "Áreas Mais" (2021);
- UM Cidades Award - Municipality of the Year 2018, in the North category for the Municipality of Braga, with the Municipality of Braga's "SchoolBus" project developed in a team by the Mobility Division and within the scope of the BUILD project (2018).