Category Archives: Notícias
NET4Age-Friendly has open the applications for short-term scientific missions (STSM) and ITC conference grants for COST Action researchers and countries. STSM are institutional visits aimed at supporting individual mobility, fostering collaboration between individuals. They shall have a minimum duration of 5 calendar days, including travel. The call for applications remains open for the duration of […]
The second version of the DAPAS system was just given to users from nursing homes and home services that participate in the project, following all the safety and hygiene measures. In the last few months, the team from the Innovation Department at Cáritas Coimbra worked, in collaboration with the technical partners, in implementing the […]
NET4Age-Friendly started in October 2020 and aims to establish local or regional ecosystems in each country involved, to work on health and well-being in an age-friendly digital world, all combined in an inclusive environment. These ecosystems include citizens, public authorities, businesses/NGOs and researchers. It is divided in four thematic groups: User-centred inclusive design; Integrated health and […]
Cáritas Coimbra held an online information session for Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra (ESEC), Coimbra Education School, on March 25. The project’s techinicians Ana Goreti Oliveira and Joana Carvalho guided the session entitled “A path in the construction of inclusive and participatory environments” (in portuguese, Um caminho na construção de ambientes inclusivos e participativos). The aim […]
Cáritas Coimbra is participating in the multidisciplinary ActiVas Project. The 1st Plenary Meeting was held on February 24th after the project kick-off meeting. This meeting was held online with all partners involved in the project and the aim of the project was to discuss the developed work during the first semester of the project, from […]
On March 26th 2021, Cáritas Coimbra attended a European workshop on Impact Assurance for the pilots in the Pharaon Project with the Valencia pilot site of the ACTIVAGE project, (the first LSP in the field of active and healthy ageing https://www.activageproject.eu/) that succeeded to bring the experimental service into the market. The objective of the workshop was […]
Pharaon project, where Cáritas Coimbra is co-leader of the dissemination work package, has been an active contributor to the health and care cluster initiative coordinated by OPENDEI since its beginning and has now deepened its commitment by taking over the chair of the working group 1 on dissemination in 2021. This health and care cluster initiative seeks to align […]
On March 3rd, representatives of the Pharaon, OPEN DEI and PlatformUptake.eu projects met to explore concertation activities between the three Horizon 2020 funded projects. This event promoted the leverage and exploitation of open platforms in the active and healthy ageing domain (AHA). The PlatformUptake.eu project aims to deliver a state-of-the-art inventory and analysis of open service […]
On March 15, Cáritas Coimbra participated in the European workshop on evaluation protocols of large-scale technological pilots, organised by the Pharaon project. The workshop was coordinated by the French association Autonom’lab. Over 25 representatives from the 6 different pilot sites attended: Murcia and Andalusia (Spain), Portugal (Amadora and Coimbra), the Netherlands, Slovenia and Italy. […]
Cáritas Coimbra continues its effort to contribute to the healthy and active ageing of the European population in the 21st Century. Currently, the organisation is taking part in the Pharaon project which builds on existing tools provided by project partners (platforms and advanced technologies). These will be customized and connected (in a user-centred approach), to facilitate […]