Category Archives: Notícias
Cáritas Coimbra participated in the plenary meeting of the Pharaon project in Amsterdam, on November 9th, 10th, and 11th, represented by Natália Machado and Sofia Ortet from the Innovation Department. The event took place in a hybrid format, compatible with the current pandemic situation in Europe, which allowed participants to be face-to-face and online, with […]
Cáritas Coimbra presented a paper at the 3rd Sheldon Conference online meeting – “Solutions for aging well at home, in the community, and at work” on October 14. After participating in the EAI GOODTECHS 2021- 7th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good on September 16, 2021, Cáritas Coimbra was invited […]
On 29 and 30 September, Cáritas Coimbra was in Aarhus, Denmark, to participate in the 3rd meeting for intensive sharing of good inter-regional practices of the EU_SHAFE project. Representing the institution were three elements of the Innovation Department, Andrea Campos, Flávia Rodrigues and Natália Machado. This was the first face-to-face meeting since the start of […]
As part of the International Day of Older Persons, celebrated on 1 October, Cáritas Coimbra participated in the event entitled “Ageing in times of pandemic”, which was held at the Pavilhão Centro de Portugal – Coimbra. This was an initiative of the home healthcare company – DCRFuncional – that promoted a set of thematic lectures […]
On the 6th, 7th and 8th of September, Cáritas Coimbra participated in the 6th plenary meeting of the ValueCare project, represented by Natália Machado and Sofia Ortet from the Innovation Department. The event (originally planned to be onsite) took place in a hybrid format, compatible with the current pandemic situation in Europe, which allowed gathering […]
The ValueCare project – Value-based methodology for integrated care supported by ICT – aims to deliver a personalized integrated (health and social) care app and platform, specially built to improve: The quality and outcomes of the care provided to older people; Their satisfaction regarding health and social care providers (including also their formal caregivers and families); The […]
In a continuous commitment to improvement and innovation in the services provided to its users, Cáritas Coimbra has been working on several national and international projects. It is now testing, among older citizens who enjoy the social responses of Day Care Centre and Home Care Services, a set of programmable buttons tailored to each user, […]
On July 21st and 22nd 2021, took place online the second technical Review Meeting of the Pharaon project. This Review Meeting brought together the efforts of more than 40 partners, who presented the work performed on the first 18 months of the project to a panel of European Commission evaluators. This project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research programme. During the two days of evaluation, Cáritas Coimbra […]
The General Assembly of the DIANA project took place, online, on July 15, 2021. The main objectives of this meeting were, together with all its partners: to analyse the state of implementation of the DIANA project; mitigate problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic (financial and technical), as well as strategically redefine and validate goals for project […]
In June 2021, the IGCAL – Improving Guidance and Counselling in Adult Learning project launched the Handbook of the best practices to map background-learning parameters. Cáritas Coimbra is one of the consortium partners of this international project, and the manual launched aims to constitute itself as a pedagogical tool to map the skills acquired and developed throughout the […]