Category Archives: Notícias
📢 1st newsletter of the BALANCE Project The 1st newsletter of the European BALANCE Project is now available! In this edition, you can find information about: ✨ Activities with young people, families, and educators; ✨ Activities with youth groups; ✨News about the Youth Mental Health Festival (Catalonia and Coimbra, 2026). 📩 Join us and be the first to find out […]
This November, the European BALANCE project kicked off the activities in Portugal. A face-to-face session was held for a group of educators from Cáritas Coimbra’s Leisure Activity Centres, dedicated to reflection, sharing and mobilisation in the area of emotional well-being and mental health among young people. Soon, all Leisure Activities Centres’ teams and interested families […]
On 20 October, the conference “RETHINK: New ways of approaching mental health in young people” was hosted in the Coimbra Business School – ISCAC, as part of the BALANCE project. This event, which was attended by various experts, institutions and projects, aimed to reflect on local realities, the importance of education and active listening to […]
On October 22–23, Cáritas Coimbra team was happy to take part in the official kick-off meeting of the SAge-Hub project in Iași, Romania. The Smart Ageing Synergies: Strengthening Interregional Innovation through Living Labs and Digital Hubs (SAge-Hub) project, funded under the Interregional Innovation Investments (I3) instrument, aims to foster innovation and collaboration in the field […]
Cáritas Coimbra, in partnership with organizations from 5 European countries, has developed the SUST-AID project’s e-learning platform. This free tool aims to enhance the skills of professionals and volunteers in implementing sustainable food aid programmes. The platform offers innovative educational materials and practical resources on food sustainability, including the “Guidance for VET trainers and food aid […]
The AutoTRUST project plenary meeting took place in Geneva, Switzerland, on 12 and 13 February 2025. Partners gathered to discuss the current status of activities and technological developments in preparation for the implementation of the pilot studies. On this occasion, Cáritas Coimbra presented the activities carried out under Task T1.4 (Data Management, Research Ethics, and […]
Caritas Coimbra participated in the Final Review Meeting of the Pharaon Project with the European Commission, where it presented the final results of the Portuguese Pilot and the progress in the ethics task, in which it was the leader. 🔹 Portuguese Pilot Results Represented by Elisabete Pitarma, Caritas Coimbra and Santa Casa da Misericordia da Amadora, as […]
Cáritas Coimbra is participating in the kick-off meeting of the European project BALANCE – Children advocating for mental and emotional well-being, in Barcelona. From 23 to 25 January, the consortium will have the opportunity to outline strategies and define the work plan for the project, which will be implemented until November 2026, in the field […]
Between August and October 2024, Cáritas Coimbra participated in two secondment activities in the scope of the LIFEBOTS Exchange project. Bruna Franceschini, project manager and researcher of the Innovation Department, travelled to Norway, to Trondheim, to visit NTNU, the coordinating entity of the project, and to Tromsø, to the Norwegian Centre for E-health Research at […]
Cáritas Coimbra participated in the final conference and transnational project meeting (TPM) of the DigiLife – Digital Life Learning project, in Rome, an Erasmus+ initiative focused on enhancing digital skills among older adults. These events, held on December 4th and 5th, marked the culmination of a fruitful collaboration between partners from Portugal, Italy, Greece, and […]