Paula Gil Ruiz is a lecturer at the Department of Education, CES Don Bosco and the European Institute of Design (IED), Madrid. She completed her PhD studies in educational innovation at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), and has been awarded recognitions related to service learning and educational innovation. She recently led innovation projects on service learning, such as the ApS Project “Inclusive Forest Recovery in the Surroundings of the Faculty of Education” at UCM. She has published numerous papers in various journals, and serves as a supervisor and co-supervisor of bachelor's and doctoral theses for research groups and innovation projects. Her teaching disciplines include visual arts, educational technology, social education, pedagogy, and early childhood and primary education, and her interests include audiovisual communication, sustainability, didactics of visual arts, inclusive education, creativity, and service learning. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6231-3916