Boris Cyrulnik

Boris Cyrulnik is a neuropsychiatrist, Director of teaching University of Toulon, about attachment and family systems. He studied medicine at the University of Paris. A neuropsychiatrist by training, he led a research group in clinical ethology at the intercommunity hospital centre of Toulon-La Seyne-sur-Mer, and is regarded by members of the scientific community as the promoter of the concept of "RESILIENCE".

He is the teaching director of the university diploma in human ethology at the University of Toulon, and author of several works, alone or in co-authorship, and one of his latest being Les âmes blessées, published by Odile Jacob, in which he revisits his story within history.

He has written several books of popular science on psychology and lots of clinical articles that won some literature prizes. He is known in France for developing and explaining to the public the concept of Psychological Resilience.

He was awarded the 2008 Prix Renaudot de l'essai and the Commander of the Légion d'honneur in 2020.

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Boris Cyrulnik, born in Bordeaux, France, is an author of books for the general public on psychology and life stories.

In 1998, he was appointed president of the Centre national de création et de diffusion culturelles de Châteauvallon and, in 2005, president of the Annie-et-Charles-Corrin prize for the memory of the Shoah (since 2005).

He is one of the 43 members of the Attali Commission on blocking development/growth, chaired by Jacques Attali and created on 30 August 2007 by Nicolas Sarkozy.

From 2012, he chaired the scientific council of the private Fernando-Pessoa university, which became the Centre libre d'enseignement supérieur international (CLESI) and then Europe Eduss, together with another academic and former president of the University of Toulon.

After chairing the ‘"Assises de l'école maternelle" in 2018, he was appointed by President Emmanuel Macron in September 2019 to chair the "Comité des 1 000 premiers jours de l'enfant", a founding period of childhood development.

Honours and distinctions

Honorary doctorate from the Catholic University of Louvain.
Commander of the Légion d'honneur (31 December 2020).

Curriculum Vitae (French)

Né le 26/07/1937 : Bordeaux ( France )
1966 : internat en neurologie Paris
1970 : spécialité neuropsychiatrie
1971 : chef de service établissement de post-cure Le Revest (Toulon )
1973 : enseignant complémentaire Faculté de Medecine ( Marseille )
1993 : directeur d’enseignement Université de Toulon
1995 : Professeur associé Université de Mons (Belgique )
- - Quatre titres Honoris Causa : Mons (Belgique), Lima (Pérou) , Louvain ( Belgique ) , Laval ( Canada)
22 livres , essais de psychologie
18 directions de livres professionnels en co-auteurs
2008 : Prix Renaudot
2012 : Prix des Droits de l’homme / Prix du livre étranger ; Rome ( Italie )
3 missions UNICEF (Roumanie , Bulgarie , Congo RDC)
11 commissions gouvernementales en psychiatrie
2020 : commandeur de la Légion d’Honneur.

Rui Vieira Nery

Rui Vieira Nery received his PhD in Musicology from the University of Texas at Austin (1990). As an Associate Professor at the New University of Lisbon, he has supervised a vast number of master's and doctoral degrees in Portuguese, Spanish and French universities.

He is a researcher at the Institute of Ethnomusicology – Centre for Music and Dance Studies and the Centre for Theatre Studies. At the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation he was Deputy Director of the Music Service (1992-2008) and Director of the Gulbenkian Education for Culture Programme (2008-2012). He is intensely active as a lecturer, nationally as well as in several European countries, the United States and Brazil. He has participated in numerous radio and television documentaries for RTP, BBC, Radio France, NDR, Al Jazeera, among others. Between October 1995 and October 1997 he served as Secretary of State for Culture in the XIII Constitutional Government.

He was President of the Scientific Committee of Fado's candidacy for Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (UNESCO).

Joaquim Azevedo

Joaquim Azevedo (1955, Santa Maria da Feira), graduated in History and PhD in Educational Sciences from the University of Lisbon, is a professor emeritus at the Catholic University of Portugal and President of the Manuel Leão Foundation. He currently directs the Arco Maior Socio-Educational Project (www.arcomaior.pt), which is aimed at young people who are marginalized and drop out of school.

He served as Director-General of the Ministry of Education (1988-92) and Secretary of State for Education (in 1992 and 1993) and was a member of the National Council of Education (1996-2022). He has represented Portugal in several international organizations (OECD, UNESCO) and is the editor of two scientific journals on education and the author of several books and numerous articles on education and training. Areas of interest: school dropout, vocational education, social pedagogy, educational innovation.

Their work can be found at: www.joaquimazevedo.com, the ORCID network and the UCP Science repository.

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