Monthly Archives: February 2020
Population ageing is a reality observed in all countries of the European Union (EU), constituting itself as a demographic phenomenon – but also a social, economic, cultural and health one – that imposes new challenges. According to Eurostat[1], in 2018, nearly one fifth of the EU population was aged 65 or more. Within the last […]
Cáritas Coimbra will host, between 19th and 21st February, the second meeting of the IGCAL project – Improving Guidance and Counselling in Adult Learning. After the project kick-off meeting, which took place at the end of October 2019 in Finland, the consortium will meet in Coimbra to know and discuss the project’s developments. In addition […]
On February 20th and 21st, Cáritas Coimbra will be in Vienna, Austria, to participate in the kick-off meeting of the project DIANA – Digital Intelligent Assistant for Nursing Applications. Flávia Rodrigues, from Cáritas Coimbra’s Innovation Department, will be present at the meeting and will introduce the Portuguese entity to the project consortium. This will be […]
It was on February 1st that the La 2 channel, from the Spanish public television – TVE, introduced the GrowMeUp project to its audience. The Cáritas Coimbra project was presented as an example of technology that was developed to help older people in their daily lives. Cáritas Coimbra received, at the facilities of the Rainha […]
In the beginning of this year, Cáritas Coimbra launched the Cons©elhos Repórteres 55+ project, with the objective of reducing social isolation through intercultural learning and socialization among peers. The implementation of this project takes place throughout this year and has a partnership with the University of Coimbra – through the Faculty of Arts and Humanities […]
Cáritas Coimbra was at Casa da Esquina, in Coimbra, exchanging knowledge about good communication practices for diverse and specific audiences – people in situations of dependency and vulnerability. The session took place on January 30th and was promoted by Graal. Between January 27th and 31st, Graal received a group of four professors from the Instituto […]