Category Archives: Notícias CDC
The EU_SHAFE final event The EU_SHAFE project concludes its journey in Bizkaia with the organisation of an event that will retrace the valuable exchange of good practices between the six participating European regions. The Provincial Council of Bizkaia is the host of the EU_SHAFE project’s final event that will be held in Bilbao from the […]
Last March 9th, Cáritas Coimbra and the Instituto Pedro Nunes promoted the presentation event of the project Digital Life Learning which intends to develop a set of tools (toolkit) and training sessions to increase the digital skills of older adults, with the active collaboration of young university students. During the session, the main objectives, the […]
Is it possible to promote active and healthy ageing through reconnection with nature using technology? It was based on this idea that the Citizeen app was present in the Geração Coolectiva training programme, which ran for 5 weeks, from January 11 to February 14, in the city of Coimbra. Geração Coolectiva stands out for being […]
On 31 January and 1 and 2 February, the Cáritas Coimbra participated in the meeting of the Pharaon project in Murcia. The Portuguese pilot, of which the Coimbra Diocesan Caritas is part, presented the progress on recruitment and implementation of Pharaon in Portugal, identifying the local indicators and relating them to the research hypotheses. Cáritas […]
The event “Educating for rights and citizenship”, an initiative of the ALLright(s) – Direitos para tod@s, promoted by Cáritas Coimbra, took place on the February 1st, 2023, in partnership with the Group of Schools in Condeixa-a-Nova and the Leisure Activities Centres of Cáritas Coimbra. In the event’s opening session, Avelino Santos, Chair Board of the […]
Cáritas Coimbra was in Athens, Greece, on January 19th and 20th, to participate in the kick-off meeting of the new Erasmus+ project, Digital Life Learning – DIGILIFE, which counted with the participation of other partners, namely Instituto Pedro Nunes, Fondazione Erasmus, Plataforma del Voluntariado de Espana, People Behind and Università degli Studi di Roma Tor […]
According to FAO, about 820 million people around the world experience chronic hunger while among them 113 million cope with acute severe insecurity, with the estimations being more adverse due to the consequences of COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, regarding data from the EU prevalence of food insecurity significantly increased from 9.4% (2007) to 12.2% (2011), with […]
The partners of the European project DIANA – Digital Intelligent Assistant for Nursing Applications met in Vienna (Austria) for what would be the last plenary meeting of the consortium. The event took place between January 11 and 13 and was attended by all the partner entities, namely: Cáritas Coimbra (Portugal), Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Portugal), EET […]
On 28th and 29th December 2022, the Innovation Department of Cáritas Coimbra (CDC) tested the Zensi application at the Rainha Santa Isabel Centre with members of the nursing team. This technology is being tested within the scope of the Pharaon Project, of which the institution is a partner. Zensi consists of a sensor placed under […]
In November 2022, ALLright(s) – Direitos para tod@s (ALLright(s) – Rights for all), a project implemented by Cáritas Coimbra, began the work with children and adolescents, with the goal of promoting education for human rights, gender equality, diversity and interculturality. During the 1st period of the present school year, awareness-raising sessions on Human Rights were held in […]