Monthly Archives: February 2023

On 31 January and 1 and 2 February, the Cáritas Coimbra participated in the meeting of the Pharaon project in Murcia. The Portuguese pilot, of which the Coimbra Diocesan Caritas is part, presented the progress on recruitment and implementation of Pharaon in Portugal, identifying the local indicators and relating them to the research hypotheses. Cáritas […]

The event “Educating for rights and citizenship”, an initiative of the ALLright(s) – Direitos para tod@s, promoted by Cáritas Coimbra, took place on the February 1st, 2023, in partnership with the Group of Schools in Condeixa-a-Nova and the Leisure Activities Centres of Cáritas Coimbra. In the event’s opening session, Avelino Santos, Chair Board of the […]

Cáritas Coimbra was in Athens, Greece, on January 19th and 20th, to participate in the kick-off meeting of the new Erasmus+ project, Digital Life Learning – DIGILIFE, which counted with the participation of other partners, namely Instituto Pedro Nunes, Fondazione Erasmus, Plataforma del Voluntariado de Espana, People Behind and Università degli Studi di Roma Tor […]

According to FAO, about 820 million people around the world experience chronic hunger while among them 113 million cope with acute severe insecurity, with the estimations being more adverse due to the consequences of COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, regarding data from the EU prevalence of food insecurity significantly increased from 9.4% (2007) to 12.2% (2011), with […]

The partners of the European project DIANA – Digital Intelligent Assistant for Nursing Applications met in Vienna (Austria) for what would be the last plenary meeting of the consortium. The event took place between January 11 and 13 and was attended by all the partner entities, namely: Cáritas Coimbra (Portugal), Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Portugal), EET […]