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“I was very happy and very excited about this opportunity”, reacts Filipa Martins, master's student in Data Science at Iscte, upon winning a place in the Forbes Portugal 30 Under 30 Class 2026, in the category of Science and Education.
The distinction recognizes a journey that combines research on social inequalities with more than a decade of civic participation, which included the Young Mayor Program and public policy discussion forums at national and international level. Filipa was born in Lomba, a small town in the municipality of Gondomar isolated from the rest of the municipality by the river, which forced her to travel through another district to get to school. It was this experience that brought her closer to issues of social mobility early on. “Being here is a vote of confidence, as it is a path that I am starting to follow”, says Filipa. Fascinated from an early age by education and public policies, she has been deepening this research, a work that began in her master's degree and has continued over time. 10.0pt;">At the center of this journey is the master's thesis, which he develops in collaboration with Banco de Portugal. The work studies the factors that influence the performance of Portuguese students in financial literacy, based on PISA data from 2022. Filipa seeks to understand which mechanisms weigh most heavily on this performance. "We are trying to understand what influences the most. Is it schools? Is it families? What mechanisms do we have to combat this?" The Bank of Portugal awarded her the Professor Jacinto Nunes Prize for the best student of the degree in Economics. More recently, she was also awarded as the best student in the curricular part of the master's degree she is attending at Iscte.
This same impulse to understand and combat inequalities had already led her to create, in 2022, Simplifica, an economic and political literacy podcast. With short, expository episodes, the project even gave rise to workshops in schools, taking the discussion about financial literacy beyond the audio format. 10.0pt;">Filipa wants to continue expanding this impact: “I like to feel that I can be a voice and that I can help people who are suffering some of the difficulties that I also felt”, he concludes.
