Monthly Archives: July 2021
In a continuous commitment to improvement and innovation in the services provided to its users, Cáritas Coimbra has been working on several national and international projects. It is now testing, among older citizens who enjoy the social responses of Day Care Centre and Home Care Services, a set of programmable buttons tailored to each user, […]
On July 21st and 22nd 2021, took place online the second technical Review Meeting of the Pharaon project. This Review Meeting brought together the efforts of more than 40 partners, who presented the work performed on the first 18 months of the project to a panel of European Commission evaluators. This project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research programme. During the two days of evaluation, Cáritas Coimbra […]
The General Assembly of the DIANA project took place, online, on July 15, 2021. The main objectives of this meeting were, together with all its partners: to analyse the state of implementation of the DIANA project; mitigate problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic (financial and technical), as well as strategically redefine and validate goals for project […]
In June 2021, the IGCAL – Improving Guidance and Counselling in Adult Learning project launched the Handbook of the best practices to map background-learning parameters. Cáritas Coimbra is one of the consortium partners of this international project, and the manual launched aims to constitute itself as a pedagogical tool to map the skills acquired and developed throughout the […]
Cáritas Coimbra, received in June, the 4th Stakeholder Meeting of the EU_SHAFE project. The meeting took place on June 25 and had the face-to-face participation of 11 entities, namely the CCDRC – Regional Coordination and Development Commission of the Centre; ARS – Regional Health Administration of the Centre; Higher School of Health Technology of Coimbra; Order of […]
Cáritas Coimbra participated in co-creation session and co-design training in Health and well-being.
On July 8, 2021, Cáritas Coimbra participated in a co-creation and co-design event where it presented the Pharaon project and contributed to the experience gained in the implementation of this project as coordinator of the large-scale Portuguese pilot. This event focused on the collaborative work of co-design and co-creation of a training offer that aims […]
Cáritas Coimbra has the existence of an Innovation Department that has, in the last ten years, brought differentiated services and knowledge to the institution’s social responses, employees and users. The digital literacy of older citizens has been a big bet of Cáritas Coimbra, and the results have been surprising. In many of the Day Centres, […]
The United Nations (UN) launched a 2nd Open Call for good practices, success stories and lessons in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from December 2020 to March 2021. A team of experts from UN entities reviewed more than 700 proposals from around the world. The Triplo D Project, implemented […]
Cáritas Coimbra participated in the third consortium meeting of the DAPAS project, on June 21, 2021. This meeting took place online, as in the previous ones, due to the restrictions still imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Coordinated by EXTHEX, the partners took the point of the situation and analysed the progress of the work developed […]