Category Archives: Notícias CDC

Cáritas Coimbra hosted, on March 11st and 12nd, the Hands-on SHAFE consortium meeting, a project that aims to promote social inclusion and encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in communities. After the meeting that marked the official kick-off of Hands-on SHAFE, on November 5th and 6th in the Netherlands, the consortium met in Coimbra to discuss its […]

Cáritas Coimbra hosted the second meeting of the IGCAL project – Improving Guidance and Counselling in Adult Learning. Between 19th and 21st February, the consortium met in Coimbra to discuss the project’s developments. With the aim of increasing the quality of adult education, IGCAL is developing a pedagogical tool to map the basic learning parameters […]

Cáritas Coimbra is involved in the latest European project that aims to support nurses of people who suffer from dementia. The kick-off meeting of DIANA – Digital Intelligent Assistant for Nursing Applications took place in Vienna, on February 20th and 21st. DIANA was approved under the AAL Programme, with Portuguese funding being provided by FCT- […]

Population ageing is a reality observed in all countries of the European Union (EU), constituting itself as a demographic phenomenon – but also a social, economic, cultural and health one – that imposes new challenges. According to Eurostat[1], in 2018, nearly one fifth of the EU population was aged 65 or more. Within the last […]

Cáritas Coimbra will host, between 19th and 21st February, the second meeting of the IGCAL project – Improving Guidance and Counselling in Adult Learning. After the project kick-off meeting, which took place at the end of October 2019 in Finland, the consortium will meet in Coimbra to know and discuss the project’s developments. In addition […]

On February 20th and 21st, Cáritas Coimbra will be in Vienna, Austria, to participate in the kick-off meeting of the project DIANA – Digital Intelligent Assistant for Nursing Applications. Flávia Rodrigues, from Cáritas Coimbra’s Innovation Department, will be present at the meeting and will introduce the Portuguese entity to the project consortium. This will be […]

It was on February 1st that the La 2 channel, from the Spanish public television – TVE, introduced the GrowMeUp project to its audience. The Cáritas Coimbra project was presented as an example of technology that was developed to help older people in their daily lives. Cáritas Coimbra received, at the facilities of the Rainha […]

In the beginning of this year, Cáritas Coimbra launched the Cons©elhos Repórteres 55+ project, with the objective of reducing social isolation through intercultural learning and socialization among peers. The implementation of this project takes place throughout this year and has a partnership with the University of Coimbra – through the Faculty of Arts and Humanities […]

Cáritas Coimbra was at Casa da Esquina, in Coimbra, exchanging knowledge about good communication practices for diverse and specific audiences – people in situations of dependency and vulnerability. The session took place on January 30th and was promoted by Graal. Between January 27th and 31st, Graal received a group of four professors from the Instituto […]

Cáritas Coimbra participated in the third and final workshop AAL2Business – The lean approach, promoted by the AAL Lean Startup Academy, in Vienna (Austria), on the 29th of January. Natália Machado, from Cáritas Coimbra’s Innovation Department, was present at this third session, continuing the work previously done. Throughout the day, there was the opportunity to […]