Category Archives: Notícias CDC

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 […]

With the success of the first edition, developed between 2018 and 2019, the United Nations reopened the second call in 2021 for the presentation and sharing of good practices and success stories, which contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda. More than 700 proposals were evaluated by a team of experts […]

The Triplo D’s Mid-Term Conference was held on 16th June 2021 at Centro Pastoral da Lousã. With the theme “Challenges and paths: the construction of inclusive and participatory environments”, this was a face-to-face event that had 25 participants, including partners, stakeholders, and other interested parties, who gathered for a fruitful debate on the project’s themes. Triplo D […]

Between 18 and 20 June 2021, the first edition of CASSINI Hackathon’s held, an initiative of the European Commission that “seeks candidates to develop innovative solutions for green spaces through the use of spatial data, contributing to a more digital and sustainable Europe”. Cáritas Coimbra was partner of this initiative contributing as coordinator of the large-scale pilot of the Pharaon project, under […]

The IDIH week (International collaboration Digital Transformation Healthy Ageing week) is a 4 days online event dedicated to researchers, innovators, care providers and users associations dealing with Digital Health for Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA).  This IDIH Week integrated information, networking & matchmaking, and co-creation sessions among all the key stakeholders of digital solutions for AHA […]

Pharaon project – Pilots for Healthy and Active Ageing intends to develop integrated platforms that allow personalized and optimized care in terms of health and social care. It intends to maintain the dignity of older people and foster their independence and functional ability for as long as possible. Pharaon’s integrated platforms will be validated in two […]

In the scope of the Smartwork project, Cáritas Coimbra contributed to the article “Benefits and Hurdles of AI In The Workplace – What Comes Next?” that was published in the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems (IJAE) this week. This paper addresses how technology applied to the work environment can be leveraged to […]

As part of the European project PHARAON (financed by the Horizon 2020 Program), the project’s Ethics Board, chaired by Caritas Coimbra, met on the 19th May. Pharaon Ethics Board is composed by representatives from each of the 6 large-scale pilots to be implemented at the end of the current year, 8 experts external to the […]