Maria Inês Pinho has an extensive academic and professional background in the fields of Cultural Management and Strategic Cultural Entrepreneurship. She successfully completed both master's and doctoral theses in these areas, solidifying her expertise. Between 2000 and 2003, she served as the coordinator of the Bachelor's degree in Heritage Management at IPP-ESE. Later, from 2006 to 2018, she took on the role of coordinator at the International Relations Office of the same institution. Currently, she is the coordinator of this degree program and is responsible for several key subjects in Cultural Management.
She teaches Cultural Management I, Cultural Management II and Cultural Management III. Additionally, she is responsible for Cultural Policies and Entrepreneurship in Arts subjects. Every year, she is invited by Cergy-Pontoise University in Paris to teach a seminar on Portuguese and European Cultural Policies within the Master of Cultural Mediation program.
Beyond her teaching roles, Maria Inês Pinho has actively participated in numerous national and international academic conferences, presenting research and publishing in indexed journals and book chapters. She has also served as a peer reviewer for conference papers and academic journals.
She has played a key role in multiple Erasmus+ projects, including the E4TLI KA201 project on literacy and new technologies teaching in higher education and ALRFRECE, which focuses on robotics and computational thinking in early childhood education. She is also implementing an ERASMUS+ BIP project on "Serious Games" for Cultural Heritage Management and is developing another one on Protection and Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage.