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Dr Rosa María Torres Valdés has a PhD in Advertising and Public Relations focusses on local development. She has a master’s degree in biomedicine and biotechnology and a postgraduate degree in corporate social responsibility. She is a Lecturer in Communication, Public Relations and Tourism at University of Alicante (Spain). Her main lines of research are focused on public relations, scientific communication, local development and social innovation, social responsibility, entrepreneurship and employment strategies. She has been involved in international projects of cooperation, as well as the design of social innovation laboratories for high education.

Carolina Lorenzo Álvarez, Sociologist, has a postgraduate degree in commercial research from the University of Valencia (ADEIT-AEDEMO). Currently she is a PhD candidate at the University of Alicante, in the “communication and image in the digital age” research program of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. She has experience as a teacher and collaborator in several public and private institutions, such as the University of Alicante, Mediterranean Studies Institute Protocol of Miguel Hernández University and Cardenal Herrera University. For more than 20 years, she has developed various commercial and social studies for various public and private bodies. She has participated in an international mission as auxiliary of UNFPA (United Nations Population Found) in support of the National Institute of statistics of Guatemala on issues of gender and indigenous people.

Dr Javier Castro Spila, Sociologist, has a PhD degree in Philosophy, Science, Technology and Society and a master’s degree in higher education. He is a Senior Researcher and Executive Director at Innovation Momentum Lab (IM-LAB) (Spain) and Associate Researcher at Ecole Supérieure des Technologies Industrielles Avancées (ESTIA) (France). Between 1987 and 2017, he was a Research Coordinator in Sinnergiak Social Innovation (University of the Basque Country), Research Coordinator in Praxis Group (University of the Basque Country) and a Researcher at GAZE PROGRAM – Fostering Entrepreneurial Culture in Higher Education (University of the Basque Country). He received the first prize for the best research in higher education (2001) awarded by the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP)/UNESCO. He was a Consultant for the World Bank in the Fund for University Quality Improvement Program. His research topics include social innovation and hybrid innovations; cultural and creative industries; regional development; and innovation policies, social innovation talent and creativity.

Alba Santa Soriano, MSc, has a master’s degree in knowledge and information society and is a PhD candidate in Public Relations and Strategic Intelligence applied to European R&D Projects (H2020). She is Innovation Project Manager in the Observatory for Technology Transfer at the University of Alicante (Spain). She has specialized in innovation and entrepreneurship to strengthen industry–academic relationships. More particularly to promote public engagement with science, focus on strategic intelligence and learning in the digital era. She has been involved in more than ten R&D projects in Latin America and Europe.