Monthly Archives: February 2021
The European Covenant on Demographic Change, of which the Cáritas Coimbra is part, has been placing demographics high on the EU policy agenda. In June 2020, the Covenant presented a report on the impact of the demographic change, setting out its key facts and likely impacts. As a result of this report, a Green Paper […]
On the 25th of February 2021, the Workshop “Open Web Platforms that support active and healthy ageing” took place, promoted by Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra. This event was attended by more than 50 stakeholders, from various positions in the value chain, from all over the country, who discussed mainly how to promote the use and exploitation of these […]
On February 12th, Cáritas Coimbra, represented by its Innovation Department, participated in the Webinar of Introduction of the Guidelines for Compliance with Ethical Standards, developed by the European funding program AAL. The invitation came in the context of one of the projects in which the entity is involved: DIANA. DIANA project (financed by the European AAL program, […]
Cáritas Coimbra participated in the virtual meeting and workshop of the Improving Guidance and Counselling in Adult Learning project (IGCAL), on February 9th and 11th, 2021. The consortium meeting, the first in 2021, aimed to discuss the results of the testing phase of the 1st version of the project’s pedagogical tool and working on the development of […]
The intense sharing of good practices for interregional learning in Hamburg and the Bizkaia domain focused interregional policy learning online workshops In spite of the great difficulties that the current health emergency is causing, the EU_SHAFE project succeeded in organising the two main events that were on its agenda during fall-winter 2020-2021: the project’s first […]
Active, autonomous and healthy ageing is one of the main challenges arising from Europe’s demographic change, so Cáritas Coimbra is currently participating in the European project VALUECARE – “Value-Based Methodology for Integrated Care supported by ICT” (2019-2023). The project is funded by the European Union research and innovation programme Horizon 2020, under the grant agreement nº […]
Pharaon – Pilots for Healthy and Active Ageing aims to develop integrated platforms that will provide personalized and optimized health and social care, maintaining the dignity of older people and increasing their independence, security, capacities and stimulating their interest in urban natural areas nearby, as well as active participation in preserving the environment. To this […]
The Workshop “Open service platforms in the Active and Healthy Ageing domain” will take place on February 25, 2021 (2:00 pm to 3:45 pm) (online), and is organised by Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra (CDC), represented by its Innovation Department under the project PlatformUptake.eu (financed by Horizon 2020). This event is aimed at end-users, technology suppliers, research entities, carers and policymakers, and […]