Category Archives: Notícias

During the last half year, the city of Coimbra has hosted several Citizen Science sessions, where the community was invited to visit and explore the city’s green and blue spaces with the support of an app – Citizeen. This initiative is part of the European Pharaon project and integrates the activities of the pilot programme […]

As part of the Policy Recommendations workshop organised by the ValueCare project, a select group of stakeholders were involved in a conversation about the transition from the traditional care model to the value-based one. This concept has been studied and deepened over the years of the project’s implementation in different countries and pilot study contexts. […]

Cáritas Coimbra is a partner in the AutoTRUST project, which aims to create autonomous, self-adaptive services for transforming personalized inclusion and resilience in mobility. On May 22nd, Cáritas Coimbra participated in the 1st online meeting that marked the official launch of the project. The Innovation Department of Cáritas Coimbra will guarantee the leadership of the […]

The AAL4ALL – From Smart Home to Care Home project was disseminated at two events throughout the month of May 2024. Under the title, The methodological approach to the AAL4ALL project – From Smart Home to Care Home, the theoretical conceptualisation of the pilot studies was presented online on 16 May at the Smart Healthy […]

On May 20th, Professor Sharvari Karandikar, from Ohio State University in the United States of America, conducted an ethics training session with the team from the Innovation Department of Cáritas Coimbra, entitled: Ethical approaches for field research with vulnerable groups. The professor has extensive experience in the field of qualitative research with vulnerable groups and […]

On May 14th and 15th, the ValueCare project partners met in Brussels, Belgium, for the penultimate face-to-face consortium meeting. The partners had the opportunity to update the status of each work package, learn about and comment on the preliminary results of the pilot studies, define the next steps and organise for the final event to […]

On 15 May, the Innovation Department of Cáritas Coimbra was present at the Fair of the Private Institutions of Social Solidarity (IPSS), organised by the Santo António dos Olivais Parish Council. The Innovation Department presented itself in a more interactive format, allowing visitors to interact with the prototypes of the projects and to pick up […]

At the beginning of May, Cáritas Coimbra hosted the researcher Yu Cheng from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) to exchange experiences and knowledge on social robots in the intersection of care, user interaction, technology and society. The initiative is part of the LIFEBOTS Exchange project, funded by the H2020 programme under the […]

On 17 April, the Innovation Department joined forces with the Volunteering sector to represent Cáritas Coimbra at the Volunteering Fair held at the University of Coimbra’s Polo III – Health Sciences Polo. The idea was to promote active citizenship through the integration of inclusion projects. The Cáritas Coimbra stand was presented in a very interactive […]

In April 2024, Cáritas Coimbra organised the 4th transnational meeting of the European SUST-AID project, as well as the “Learning and Training Activities” (LTTA) event. The aim of the transnational meeting was to analyse the results already achieved and plan the next steps. On the other hand, the goals of the “Learning and Training Activities” […]