Category Archives: Notícias CDC
The AAL4ALL – From Smart Home to Care Home project was disseminated at two events throughout the month of May 2024. Under the title, The methodological approach to the AAL4ALL project – From Smart Home to Care Home, the theoretical conceptualisation of the pilot studies was presented online on 16 May at the Smart Healthy […]
On May 20th, Professor Sharvari Karandikar, from Ohio State University in the United States of America, conducted an ethics training session with the team from the Innovation Department of Cáritas Coimbra, entitled: Ethical approaches for field research with vulnerable groups. The professor has extensive experience in the field of qualitative research with vulnerable groups and […]
On May 14th and 15th, the ValueCare project partners met in Brussels, Belgium, for the penultimate face-to-face consortium meeting. The partners had the opportunity to update the status of each work package, learn about and comment on the preliminary results of the pilot studies, define the next steps and organise for the final event to […]
On 15 May, the Innovation Department of Cáritas Coimbra was present at the Fair of the Private Institutions of Social Solidarity (IPSS), organised by the Santo António dos Olivais Parish Council. The Innovation Department presented itself in a more interactive format, allowing visitors to interact with the prototypes of the projects and to pick up […]
At the beginning of May, Cáritas Coimbra hosted the researcher Yu Cheng from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) to exchange experiences and knowledge on social robots in the intersection of care, user interaction, technology and society. The initiative is part of the LIFEBOTS Exchange project, funded by the H2020 programme under the […]
On 17 April, the Innovation Department joined forces with the Volunteering sector to represent Cáritas Coimbra at the Volunteering Fair held at the University of Coimbra’s Polo III – Health Sciences Polo. The idea was to promote active citizenship through the integration of inclusion projects. The Cáritas Coimbra stand was presented in a very interactive […]
In April 2024, Cáritas Coimbra organised the 4th transnational meeting of the European SUST-AID project, as well as the “Learning and Training Activities” (LTTA) event. The aim of the transnational meeting was to analyse the results already achieved and plan the next steps. On the other hand, the goals of the “Learning and Training Activities” […]
The Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinic of the Rainha Santa Isabel Centre of Cáritas Coimbra hosted an exhibition of the projects carried out by the institutional Innovation Department. For a week, between 8 and 12 April, the community had the opportunity to get in touch with European projects that are testing cutting-edge technologies and innovative […]
On March 19, Cáritas Coimbra was present at the commemoration of World Social Work Day at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra (FPCE-UC), organised by the Coordination Committee of the Degree in Social Work. As part of the Buen Vivir theme, the event highlighted good living in terms of […]
On 20 and 21 March, the third review meeting of the Pharaon project with the European Commission took place. The awaited meeting took place in Florence and Cáritas Coimbra was present as a partner of the project, being represented by Elisabete Pitarma and Bruna Franceschini from the Innovation Department. As the organisation responsible for the […]