Marta Portalés Oliva

European Projects Coordinator, Horizon 2020, Mobile World Capital

Holds a PhD at the Journalism Department of the Autonomous University of Barcelona UAB (2019) and was awarded with the Science Prize for Young Researcher Talent in Valencia by Caixabank in 2022. Since 2020 she is the Coordinator of the European Projects Department within Mobile World Capital after working as a Communication and Dissemination Executive of different H2020 Projects in the fields of smart mobility, connected cars, robotics and social impact of tech. She has been a mentor in the marketing and digital communication area for startups: RobotUnion, IMPACT Connected Car, IMPACT Growth and 5G Turbo (EIT Urban Mobility). As a result of her participation in different European projects as project manager and communication manager she has specialized in digital skills, industry 5.0, and the future of networks (5GMED, 5GCroCo, I4MS, Möbius, Better Factory, EIT Urban Mobility Digital Talent). 

Currently she is also a lecturer at the Communications Faculty of the UAB in Master and Bachelor’s Degrees. Since 2014 she has been a researcher at the group Gabinete de Comunicación y Educación working on several EU funded projects. Starting her academic career in 2014 she has published research papers in indexed journals. Studied Bachelor of Audiovisual Communication at the University of Valencia (Spain), York University in Toronto (Canada) and at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz (Germany) between 2009 and 2013.