Category Archives: Notícias
The pilot of the DIANA project is taking place at Santo António Nursing Home (Cáritas Coimbra’s social response), within the scope of the AAL Programme. This project is already in its test phase, which consists of installing sensors in bedrooms and bathrooms in order to enable the detection of falls, as well as providing relevant […]
On June 22nd, Cáritas Coimbra hosted the kick-off meeting for the European project PHILIP – Protection of Health by Increasing the Health Literacy of Pupils. The project consortium met all day long in Coimbra, Portugal, mainly discussing the action plan and the allocation of tasks. The meeting was attended by the 6 partner entities of […]
The recruitment of participants for the intervention and control groups of the ValueCare project has already started! During the visit to the Portuguese pilot by the project’s international partners at the end of June, the first tablets on which the ValueCare application will be effectively installed were delivered. The application will consist of a system, […]
On the 21st of June, Cáritas Coimbra received the international partners of the ValueCare project, so that they could get to know the context in which the large-scale Portuguese pilot is being implemented. The international team was represented by Erasmus Medical Centre, from the Netherlands, in the person of project coordinator Hein Raat and project […]
On June 8th, the SUST-AID kick-off meeting was held in Warsaw, Poland. This project aims to fill current gaps and needs in knowledge, training and skills by developing and evaluating a training programme for the delivery of sustainable food aid programmes. SUST-AID is funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme and is partnered by 6 […]
Cáritas Coimbra, through its Department of Innovation, has launched another recruitment for the large-scale pilot of which it is part of the Pharaon project. On June 21st, tablets began to be distributed on which the project’s technology will be tested by users of Cáritas Coimbra services. Pharaon aims to support the active aging of the […]
In the past June 15th to 17th, the President of Cáritas Coimbra, Prof. Dr. Manuel Antunes, participated, in Rome, in the Ministerial Conference on Ageing of the UNECE – United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. At this meeting, the Action Plan for Ageing of the UNECE Region was discussed and approved. Prior to this, there […]
On June 8th and 9th, Cáritas Coimbra, represented by Bruna Franceschini from the Innovation Department, attended the ValueCare project consortium meeting, in hybrid format, in Opatija, Croatia. The meeting served essentially to discuss and evaluate the project’s developments. Each partner shared the tasks they had accomplished and, at the end, they discussed the next steps […]
The Innovation Department of Cáritas Coimbra met again on 31 May to discuss the implementation of the pilot ValueCare project. Approved under the H2020 programme, ValueCare intends to provide a digital solution at the level of integrated and efficient social and health care, aimed at improving the life quality of older people (with cognitive decline, […]
On the 24th and 25th of May, the kickoff meeting of the newest European project of which Cáritas Coimbra is a part took place. The project is IDEAHL – Improving Digital Empowerment for Active Healthy Living, which receives funding from the European Union (EU) under the Horizon 2020 programme. The kickoff meeting took place in […]