Category Archives: Notícias

In the beginning of this year, Cáritas Coimbra launched the Cons©elhos Repórteres 55+ project, with the objective of reducing social isolation through intercultural learning and socialization among peers. The implementation of this project takes place throughout this year and has a partnership with the University of Coimbra – through the Faculty of Arts and Humanities […]

Cáritas Coimbra was at Casa da Esquina, in Coimbra, exchanging knowledge about good communication practices for diverse and specific audiences – people in situations of dependency and vulnerability. The session took place on January 30th and was promoted by Graal. Between January 27th and 31st, Graal received a group of four professors from the Instituto […]

Cáritas Coimbra participated in the third and final workshop AAL2Business – The lean approach, promoted by the AAL Lean Startup Academy, in Vienna (Austria), on the 29th of January. Natália Machado, from Cáritas Coimbra’s Innovation Department, was present at this third session, continuing the work previously done. Throughout the day, there was the opportunity to […]

Between January 20th and 24th, Cáritas Coimbra was in Pisa, Italy, to participate in the kick-off meeting of Pharaon – a project that aims to create more active and inclusive communities in Europe, favoring a healthier ageing with the support of digital solutions. Cáritas Coimbra was represented by Carina Dantas and Sofia Ortet, from the […]

Cáritas Coimbra was in Vienna, Austria, on January 15th and 16th, as partner in the kick-off meeting of the PlatformUptake.eu project, a coordination and support action to the European Commission for digital platforms to support Active and Healthy Ageing. Ageing presents one of the greatest socioeconomic challenges of the 21st century, with more than 20% […]

For two weeks, from January 9th to 23th, Cáritas Coimbra will be in exchange in the Norwegian city of Trondheim, as part of the Lifebots Exchange project. During this period, Flávia Rodrigues, from the Department of Innovation of Cáritas Coimbra, will be welcomed at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) to carry out […]

Natália Machado, Cáritas Coimbra project manager, arrived in Kosice, on August 16 to the first two weeks of the Cáritas secondment in TUKE. During this first period of secondment, Natália, Peter and Marek worked together to build a questionnaire: “new technologies and social robots in care – the caregiver’s perception”. The aim is to analyse […]

The third participatory meeting of the Portuguese Network on SHAFE – Smart Healthy Age-friendly Environments, of which Cáritas Coimbra is coordinator in partnership with the Nursing School of Coimbra (ESEnfC), took place on December 10th, at the Congress Center of Lisbon (CCL), included in the “Portugal Social Economy 2019” – Portuguese forum on Entrepreneurship and […]

Cáritas Coimbra was in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on December 9th to 10th, to attend the launch meeting of ValueCare, a new project approved under the H2020 program. ValueCare aims to contribute to the sustainability of the social and health systems in Europe, as well as to the job satisfaction and well-being of professionals working in […]

On December 5th, Cáritas Coimbra hosted the second gathering of Stakeholders (LAG) in the EU_SHAFE project. The meeting intended to continue the work of the first meeting, which took place on October 23rd at the CCDR Centro, hosting the organisations that could not attend on that date. Cáritas Coimbra is one of the 10 partners […]