Growing up in the beautiful Douro Valley instilled in me a deep passion for biodiversity and sustainability, the guiding forces of my career. I graduated in Biology at the University of Porto (UP) and from 2001 to 2015 I studied the evolutionary processes influencing marine biodiversity at CIBIO.UP (as an early researcher and PhD student until 2008 and after as a postdoc). In 2015, I embarked on a radical change in my career, joining CIDTFF.UA where I grew as an education researcher researching on how to foster public scientific literacy on evolution and key competencies on sustainability to empower people to address sustainability problems. This required stakeholders with multiple complementary expertise, so I focused on developing EvoKE (https://evokeproject.org) a transdisciplinary research networks that later resulted in EuroScitizen COST Action (http://www.euroscitizen.eu/). In EuroScitizen I was a member of the steering committee and leader of the formal education group and I led the Formal Education Group of EuroScitizen and I am currently the elected President of EvoKE, which boasts over 300 members from 36 countries. At EvoKE and EuroScitizen I used transdisciplinary research and citizen science approaches and worked with and learned from multiple stakholders (teachers, science museum practitioners, science communicators and journalists, researchers in social and natural sciences and policy makers) to bridge the gap between research & practice applying both types of knowledge to foster sustainable changes in educational policies, curriculum and practices. At the intersection between formal and informal education, I am now interested in understanding how to profit from transdisciplinary research networks to promote key competencies in sustainability in students and network partners (contributing to their training and life-long learning). I'm exploring these questions at BiblioLab (https://www.bibliolab.pt/ ) that was initially developed as an on-line platform that offered STEAM educational resources to be used by teachers, parents, and students during the COVID19 lockdowns. Now BiblioLab transitioned to be a transdisciplinary research network that includes teachers, social and natural science researchers, NGOs, Libraries, museums, and science centers. Together, these partners co-construct educational experiences that open schools to the communities, allowing students to learn about several disciplines while addressing sustainability problems. I am also a mother of two amazing young ladies that turn blue the grayest skies.