Rui Alexandre Castanho holds an International Ph.D. on Sustainable Urban Planning in Transboundary Areas. Collaborates with the Environmental Resources Analysis Research Group (ARAM) - University of Extremadura (UEx); VALORIZA - Research Center for the Enhancement of Endogenous Resources, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre (IPP), Portugal; ICAAM—Institute for Agrarian and Environmental Sciences, Évora, Portugal; and CITUR - Madeira - Centre for Tourism Research, Development and Innovation, Madeira, Portugal. He has Graduated in Green Spaces Engineering and Agricultural Engineering, and has a Master´s Degree in Planning, Audit and Control in Urban Green Spaces. Nowadays, he´s a Professor on the WSB University, Poland and the Coordinator of International Relations on the Research Institute on Territorial Cooperation and Inter-Organizational Cooperation.