Ana Carolina Cardoso Cunha, Doctoral Research Fellow in Heritage Studies (FLUP, 2024-Present), with a FCT grant (2024.01733.BDANA). Belongs to the research group " Tangible and Intangible Heritage" at CITCEM. Holds a Master in History of Art, Heritage and Visual Culture (FLUP, 2023), where she defended her final report "Proximity Heritage. The involvement of the community in the enhancement of the Cultural Heritage of Perafita (Vila Verde - Vila Real)", with a final grade of 20. She has a degree in Art History from the same institution, with a period of mobility in Naples, Italy. Her research career includes the publication of the article "Santuário e Romaria de Nossa Senhora da Piedade, Sanfins do Douro" (2022) and participation in the Faro Convention International Conference (2024), the CICTEM Research Workshops (2023) and the IJUP (2022). Professionally, has carried out research and mediation work on the cultural heritage of the interior of the country, for the website of Círculo de Estudos do Centralismo Association, where she developed communication and mediation skills applied to scientific narratives for a heterogeneous audience. She is currently volunteering at arquiv@, a project to digitize the Património Cultural, I.P. archive, with responsibilities for organizing and uploading photographic records and reports. She has also attended the following training courses: Involving Communities in the Enhancement of Local Heritage (PRR Training, 2022) and International Heritage Summer School (2021).