Sheila Holz
Biography
Sheila Holz is the executive coordinator of the PHOENIX (The rise of citizens' voices for a Greener Europe) project, funded under the H2020 program of the European Commission, running from 2022 to 2025. PHOENIX is an iterative learning process for different actors in different countries, whose overarching objective is to increase the transformative potential of democratic innovations under the European Green Deal, addressing farm-to-fork, circular economy, energy transition, and healthy soil policy areas. During her research career, she has been involved in projects related to citizen participation, the co-creation of nature-based solutions, issues related to agriculture and environmental risk assessment of pesticides, and fundamental rights such as housing. She has a degree in Law (2000), a Master's degree (2009) in Territorial Planning - Urbanism from the University of Aveiro (Portugal), and a PhD (2015) in "Democracy in the 21st Century" from the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (Portugal), with a doctoral scholarship funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). She was a visiting student at the Università Degli Studi di Firenze, Italy (2011). Her doctoral thesis analyzed the importance of the law to promote practices of citizen participation in the elaboration of urban planning instruments, in Portugal and Italy. His area of research is public participation, democratic innovations, and issues related to agriculture, such as the farm-to-fork system promoted by the European Commission. Her current research interests are democracy strengthening; democratic innovations; green transition; agroecology; the right to housing and the right to the city.
ORCID
Projetos
InovaJuntos
Triangular Urban Cooperation for Innovation and Sustainability
PHOENIX
The Rise of Citizens Voices for a Greener Europe
Nets4Dem
Network of Networks 4 Democracy
Latest Publications
Article in Scientific journal
Axelman, Johan; Aldrich, Annette; Duquesne, Sabine; Backhaus, Thomas; Brendel, Stephan; Focks, Andreas; Holz, Sheila; Knillmann, Saskia; Pieper, Silvia; Silva, Emilia; Schmied-Tobies, Maria; Topping, Christopher John; Wipfler, Louise; Williams, James; Sousa, José Paulo (2024), "A systems-based analysis to rethink the European environmental risk assessment of regulated chemicals using pesticides as a pilot case", Science of The Total Environment, 948, 174526
Article in Scientific journal
Esteves, Denise; Holz, Sheila; Lopes, Mónica; Sandri, Sinara (2024), "Exploring the nexus of gender and environment in the H2020 PHOENIX project: insights from the design of a gender equality plan", Frontiers in Environmental Science, 12
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Williams, James Henty; Bordoni, Adele; Bednarska, Agnieszka; Pinto, Alice; Martins, Cátia Ariana Henriques; Henriques, Dora; Sgolastra, Fabio; Knapp, Jessica; Loureiro, João; Sousa, José Paulo; Gócs, Kata; Marcussen, Luna Kondrup; Rundlöf, Maj; von Post, Maria; Castro, Mariana; Mølgaard, Natasha; Simon, Noa; Capela, Nuno; Thomsen, Peet; Casqueiro, Ricardo; Magagnoli, Serena; Holz, Sheila; Castro, Sílvia; Dupont, Yoko Luise; Filipiak, Zuzanna; Topping, Christopher John (2023), "Roadmap for action on the environmental risk assessment of chemicals for insect pollinators (IPol‐ERA)", EFSA Supporting Publications, 20, 11