Raquel Venâncio

Raquel Venâncio holds a master degree in Political Science and International Relations from the Catholica University in Lisbon, Portugal. Previously, she was an intern at the Representation of the European Commission in Portugal, where she was in charge of press reporting to the spokesperson service at the offices of the European commissioners in Brussels, press reviews portraying the media coverage of European affairs in Portugal and worked in missions that counted with the presence of European Commissioners alongside the organisation of international events such as “Dialogues with Citizens” and Summer Cemp”. Moreover, she was an intern at EURODEFENSE (PT), where she investigated the European Process and the Security and Defence institutions. Afterwards, she was a part of the Portuguese National Defence Institute, overseeing defence courses. Besides this, she was an intern at the National Innovation Agency as Project Assistant, where she was responsible for collecting and analysing information from the PERIN Observatory project. Furthermore, Raquel worked as the Head of the Directorate for International Judicial Cooperation and Human Rights Portfolio at IPS_Innovative Prison Systems (a boutique research) where she designed and collaborated on several EU- co-funded projects.