Ana Paula Proença (Lisbon,1960) has completed her evolutionary academic training from the Pilot School of Teachers Education through Art at the National Conservatory of Lisbon to the Doctorate in Theater Studies-Theater Education. She teaches Art, Creativity, Dramatic Expression and Artistic Expressions in Basic Education, in Secondary Vocational level and in the University as invited Professor. She develops innovative work in several museums and cultural institutions as a cultural coeducational mediator. Her work, oriented towards the development of team work, namely among professionals from various fields, challenges the traditional view through new approaches involving and empowering the interested parties. Her academic and epistemological work hrough the role of the mediator, allows an original cultural and pedagogical dimension. She carried out Lifelong Learning Actions for teachers and professionals of the museums: "There is theatre in the schools! coeducational cultural partnerships and the use of theater in promoting cultural communication” (Braga 2009; Lisbon 2011). She conceived and has been directing the programme of the Museu Nogueira da Silva - University of Minho: “There is theater at the Museum”® ("Há teatro no Museu " ®): Creative and theatrical improvisation Workshops for Infance and Youth”, concerning the elements of the Museum and of its temporary exhibitions gallery, since 2008, till now. She conceived and developed the CD-ROM “Between Gifts and Chalk Dust - Stories and encounters between museums and schools” ("Entre Dons e PÓ de Giz - Histórias e façanhas de encontros de museus e escolas"),(2000) which represented the final report of the MEC Project - funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (FCG) and the FCT (2000). She was part of the team of the European Comenius Project "Museums and Schools - Towards a Cultural coeducation in Europe" (COSME, 2001) in which five countries participated: Portugal, Spain, France, Romania and Norway. Within the scope of the study of the school- museum relationship in Europe, she joined the same scientific team. She considers the stimulation of creativity as the basis of an educational and aesthetic approach that precedes a stimulating psychopedagogy that corresponds to the essential characteristics of the Individual in the Society. Ana Paula Proença is an integrated member of the research group of Arts Education of CIEBA (Center for Research and Studies in Fine Arts of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (FBAUL)) and invited professor at the Superior School of Education Jean Piaget, where she has worked since 1996. She is also a member of the Portuguese Movement Association of Artistic Intervention and Education through Art, (MOVEA) and of the International Drama and Theater Education Association (IDEA). As artist she deepens the theme " Artistic Installation as Performance scenario". As researcher she is now in the process of submission a post doctoral research project:“ Artistic Installation as Performance scenario, or, When Sofia changed her vision : A / R / Tography and Dramaturgies within the Education through the Art Teacher’s Community, arising from Childhood”( in process of submission the application at CIEBA-FBAUL, under the supervision of Professor Ana Sousa).