Category Archives: Notícias
On the 19th and 20th of June, Cáritas Coimbra was in Thessaloniki, Greece, to participate in the Kick-off meeting of AutoTRUST, a project that aims to develop autonomous and self-adaptive services to guarantee more inclusive, personalized, and resilient car mobility. The Innovation Department of Cáritas Coimbra, which is responsible for the ethical tasks, has presented […]
The European project PHILIP – Protection of Health by Increasing the Health Literacy of Pupils, which had Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra as one of its partners, has the final results achieved by the consortium available on the project website: Transnational report on the health literacy of children and young people (11-15 years old) in the various countries […]
The Innovation Department of Cáritas Coimbra was flattered to take part in the joint conference of visuAAL and Goodbrother. The event took place between 18 and 20 June in Alicante (Spain) and focused on trustworthy assistance technologies based on video and audio. It was a great opportunity to meet current and former partners and colleagues […]
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 […]