ABSTRACT

This chapter the focuses on two collective actors immersed in these dynamics: aQeduto and EDULOG. It discusses the two intermediary actors and the methodology used in the empirical study is presented. The chapter examines the main features of these several actors that illustrate their translation(s) of knowledge for policy is presented: self-presentation as experts and mediators, basic assumptions about the social role they perform and how these might be governed, and main activities that aim to connect knowledge and policy. In Fundacao Francisco Manuel dos Santos’s scientific coordinator’s words, aQeduto wants to “put information out there and so any proposal or idea may at least be based on information, based on the best there is”. The chapter focuses on the emergence of two small-scale organisations that are financially linked to philanthropic organisations in the Portuguese public space of education and, in particular, on their specific activities that frame and shape other actors’ involvement in policy processes.