Michela Giovannini is a Marie Sklodowska Curie fellow at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). She holds a PhD in Local Development and Global Dynamics from the University of Trento (Italy, 2014). Her research work and research interests focus on social and solidarity-economy organizations in Latin America and Europe, the political dimension of solidarity-economy organizations in Spain and Portugal, indigenous socio-economic initiatives, social movements and community development.