Rui Oliva Teles holds a PhD in the field of Educational Technologies by University of Minho (Portugal), currently he is Adjunct professor at ESE do Porto and teaches on various undergraduate, master's and CTeSp courses. He is the coordinator of ESE/IPP's Digital Inclusion Support Centre (2005/ - ), a resource centre specialising in assistive technologies for people with special needs (www.naid.ese.ipp.pt). He has participated in national programmes (PORTIC_2002, CEFPI_2006, PNEP_2006, MAT_2006 DIVERTIR_2007) and represented ESE in Língua (1999), EDIN (1999) Comenius (2000), Grundtvig (2009) and Erasmus (2011) projects in the area of Educational Technologies and Support Technologies. He was coordinator of the ESE/IPP Knowledge Resource Centre (2003/2009) and collaborated in the creation and development of the IPP eLearning Unit, of which he is a representative. He is also the manager of the ESE Content Platform (2004/ - ). He is a certified trainer (CAP and CCPFCO) with training activities in the area of ICT and Support Technologies for groups 910, 920 and 930. He supervises internships and master's projects (2008/ - ). He is a founding member of SUPERA - Society for Rehabilitation Engineering and Accessibility (2006/-), of which he was vice-president. His areas of research are centred on learning technologies and support technologies, as a non-integrated researcher at INED.