Carina Dantas has a degree in Law, she is a PhD candidate on Biomedical Sciences (AI ethics) and is the CEO of SHINE 2Europe with over 25 years-experience in areas related to health, social aspects and ICT.

She is Co-Director of the SHAFE Foundation  – Smart Healthy Age-friendly Environments, was the Chair of the COST Action NET4Age-Friendly (2020-2024), which gathered over 775 participants from 50 countries and she was Vice-President of the European Covenant on Demographic Change until 2023.

Carina is Chair of the Citizen Engagement WG of the Mission Cancer Cluster on Diagnosis and Treatment for 2024-2025, on behalf of the LIVERATION project; member of the Portuguese National Cancer Hub – Survivors’ group; WG2 Leader and Management Committee Member of the COST Action Medi-CaSE (CA23151) – Mediterranean Cancer Screening and Early Diagnosis Network; and Working Group Member of the COST Action INE-CSC (CA21152) – Implementation Network Europe for Cancer Survivorship Care.

She is also Committee Member of CEN/CENELEC TC 428, having integrated the Expert Team developing the EU Ethics framework for the ICT Profession; and leading the group of experts designing the Reference Guidelines in the Field of Ethics, Data Privacy and Security, contracted by the AAL Programme.

Carina manages several international projects such as SIRENE | Social Innovation Responsive Environments NETwork, a HORIZON Europe CSA, where she was the Project Coordinator or RadioVal | International Clinical Validation of Radiomics Artificial Intelligence for Breast Cancer Treatment Planning where she is WP1 Leader, on Multi-stakeholder engagement and social innovation.

She is evaluator/reviewer/Ethics expert for the European Commission, Eureka, AAL, EIT Climate and EIT Digital; Advisory and Ethics Board Member of several international projects, and reviewer of ICF Journal, Geriatrics and MDPI. She authored or co-authored several refereed journals, book chapters, conference papers and lay publications and performs public presentations in conferences and events regularly.