Monthly Archives: March 2021
Cáritas Coimbra held an online information session for Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra (ESEC), Coimbra Education School, on March 25. The project’s techinicians Ana Goreti Oliveira and Joana Carvalho guided the session entitled “A path in the construction of inclusive and participatory environments” (in portuguese, Um caminho na construção de ambientes inclusivos e participativos). The aim […]
Cáritas Coimbra is participating in the multidisciplinary ActiVas Project. The 1st Plenary Meeting was held on February 24th after the project kick-off meeting. This meeting was held online with all partners involved in the project and the aim of the project was to discuss the developed work during the first semester of the project, from […]
On March 26th 2021, Cáritas Coimbra attended a European workshop on Impact Assurance for the pilots in the Pharaon Project with the Valencia pilot site of the ACTIVAGE project, (the first LSP in the field of active and healthy ageing https://www.activageproject.eu/) that succeeded to bring the experimental service into the market. The objective of the workshop was […]
Pharaon project, where Cáritas Coimbra is co-leader of the dissemination work package, has been an active contributor to the health and care cluster initiative coordinated by OPENDEI since its beginning and has now deepened its commitment by taking over the chair of the working group 1 on dissemination in 2021. This health and care cluster initiative seeks to align […]
On March 3rd, representatives of the Pharaon, OPEN DEI and PlatformUptake.eu projects met to explore concertation activities between the three Horizon 2020 funded projects. This event promoted the leverage and exploitation of open platforms in the active and healthy ageing domain (AHA). The PlatformUptake.eu project aims to deliver a state-of-the-art inventory and analysis of open service […]
On March 15, Cáritas Coimbra participated in the European workshop on evaluation protocols of large-scale technological pilots, organised by the Pharaon project. The workshop was coordinated by the French association Autonom’lab. Over 25 representatives from the 6 different pilot sites attended: Murcia and Andalusia (Spain), Portugal (Amadora and Coimbra), the Netherlands, Slovenia and Italy. […]
Cáritas Coimbra continues its effort to contribute to the healthy and active ageing of the European population in the 21st Century. Currently, the organisation is taking part in the Pharaon project which builds on existing tools provided by project partners (platforms and advanced technologies). These will be customized and connected (in a user-centred approach), to facilitate […]
Cáritas Coimbra participated as a speaker in the International Workshop “End-Users Open service platforms active and healthy ageing”.The workshop focussed on the needs of end-users from open service platforms that promote active and healthy ageing. The online event took place on March 10. The main objectives of this workshop were to inform potential end-users (older adults, […]
The project’s Ethics Committee, led by Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra, met on the 5th of March within the scope of the European SmartWork project (financed by the European Horizon 2020 Program) and following the pre-pilot implemented at the Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra between 1 October 2020 and 15 January 2021. The main objectives of the meeting were […]
The online International Workshop dedicated to end-users of open service platforms promoting active and healthy ageing will happen on March 10, 2021, at 2:30 pm CET. Caritas Coimbra will take part in this workshop as a speaker, and its Innovation Department will share the experiences as an end-user organisation on the organisation’s behalf: what are […]