Urbano Sidoncha, lecturer at the University of Beira Interior (UBI) and PRAXIS researcher, was elected president of the newly created InterCult - International Association of Researchers of Cultures.

This organization, officially created at the beginning of last December, brings together 18 universities from Portugal, Brazil and Mozambique.

Urbano Sidoncha is a lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Letters of UBI, in the areas of teaching Aesthetics, Contemporary Thought and Contemporary Philosophy. He is also a researcher at the R&D unit Praxis - Center for Philosophy, Politics and Culture. He is also the director of the 2nd Cycle/Master's degree course in Culture Studies.

The first president of AIIC has a degree in Philosophy (Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon) and a PhD in Philosophy (specialty of Contemporary Philosophy) from the same institution.