Category Archives: Notícias CDC

At Cáritas Coimbra, the activities of the IDEAHL project continue to be exciting! Over the past few weeks, three workshops were held for the development of the Atlas of Health Literacy. The Atlas aims to be an interactive tool to make public the results of the broad literature review carried out within the scope of […]

After the COVID-19 pandemic and the outbreak of war in Ukraine, Cáritas Coimbra, together with partners from four other countries, is confident that food aid programmes should be improved and should strive to be as sustainable to ensure equal access to healthy and high-quality food for all. Sustainability in food production and food aid chains […]

During April and May, Cáritas Coimbra and the Instituto Pedro Nunes promoted 4 events to present the DigiLife – Digital Life Learning project to higher education students. The sessions took place at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Coimbra, at the Miguel Torga Institute of Higher Education, and at the […]

Cáritas Coimbra participated in a pilot study to assess the usability and feasibility of a Physical Activity Prescription System (SPAF), characterised as a programme that allows older people aged 60 or over to perform physical training under prescription and clinical monitoring. The action was promoted in partnership with the University of Aveiro and arose under […]

Last Wednesday, May 31st, Cáritas Coimbra was in Brussels, for the Mid Term Review (MTR) of the AGAPE project, as one of the AGAPE pilot sites and responsible for the AGAPE Ethical Committee. The MTR of the project was an opportunity for the AGAPE consortium to present to the reviewers the progress and results the […]

The Pharaon Plenary Meeting took place in Malaga (Spain) from May 9th to 11th. This consortium meeting aimed to present the developments of the work carried out in recent months, reflect on the most emerging issues, and outline objectives and tasks for the coming months. Cáritas Coimbra (CDC) was represented by two project managers from […]

The ValueCare European project consortium met in Athens (Greece) for its 10th plenary meeting. The meeting took place on 20th and 21st April, at the Athens Medical Grοup headquarters, and was attended by all the project partners, including Cáritas Coimbra, which was represented by Bruna Franceschini and Maria Inês Santos from the Innovation Department. Over […]

Today Cáritas Coimbra launches the video of the ALLright(s) – Direitos para tod@s (ALLright(s) – Rights for all), which intends to share some of the activities developed and disseminate the project’s mission: to make the target groups more aware, responsible, and active in the fight against discrimination and violation of human rights. “We want to […]

During March and April, Cáritas Coimbra and the Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN) promoted events to present the Digital Life Learning project to older adults. This project aims to develop a toolkit and training sessions to increase older adults’ digital skills, with the active collaboration of young university students. During the sessions the project’s main goals […]

On the 3rd, 4th and 5th of April, iHomeLab, in Horw (Luzern, Switzerland), hosted the AAL4ALL project partners for another Consortium Meeting and the Mid-Term Project Review. Cáritas Coimbra was represented by project manager Ângela Pinto. During this 3-day meeting, partners prepared for the interim evaluation of the project and together reflected on how the […]