Category Archives: Notícias
The Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinic of the Rainha Santa Isabel Centre of Cáritas Coimbra hosted an exhibition of the projects carried out by the institutional Innovation Department. For a week, between 8 and 12 April, the community had the opportunity to get in touch with European projects that are testing cutting-edge technologies and innovative […]
On March 19, Cáritas Coimbra was present at the commemoration of World Social Work Day at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra (FPCE-UC), organised by the Coordination Committee of the Degree in Social Work. As part of the Buen Vivir theme, the event highlighted good living in terms of […]
On 20 and 21 March, the third review meeting of the Pharaon project with the European Commission took place. The awaited meeting took place in Florence and Cáritas Coimbra was present as a partner of the project, being represented by Elisabete Pitarma and Bruna Franceschini from the Innovation Department. As the organisation responsible for the […]
The IDEAHL project met for the last time at a high-level event held at the European Parliament in Brussels. The meeting, which took place between 6 and 7 March 2024, marked the final phase of the project. Authorities were invited to the event and the partners shared their final results and implementation experiences at different […]
On 22 and 23 February, Cáritas Coimbra attended the 3rd transnational meeting of the DigiLife project in Madrid (Spain), to evaluate the pilot implemented in Coimbra (Portugal) and plan the next steps. On the first day of the meeting, Cáritas Coimbra had the opportunity to present the results of the Portuguese pilot, namely the impact […]
On February 2nd, the Caritas Europa Innovation Festival 2024 took place. This event aims to promote social innovation by sharing projects across its network, inspiring others. Cáritas Coimbra, represented by Elisabete Pitarma and Ângela Rodrigues from the Innovation Department, presented the Portuguese pilot of the Pharaon project. One outcome of this event was compiling all projects […]
On 31 January, Cáritas Coimbra had the opportunity to present some of its innovative projects to the partners of the national Cáritas network. The meeting took place online and was attended by around 45 people, including the main Cáritas Portuguese and the various Cáritas Diocesans across Portugal (a total of 20 in the whole country). […]
On January 23, Cáritas Coimbra, represented by Ana Goreti Oliveira and Vera Pinto, took part in the last transnational meeting of the European PHILIP project, which took place in Perugia, Italy. During the meeting, the results achieved by the project were presented and discussed, including: Transnational report on the health literacy of children and young […]
On 17 January, Cáritas Coimbra’s Innovation Department, represented by Ana Goreti Oliveira and Vera Pinto, held a multiplier event for the European project PHILIP in the Group of Schools of Lousã. With the theme “Protecting the health of young people through health literacy”, the first part of the event aimed to present the results achieved […]
On January 20th, we had a Citizen Science event as part of the Pharaon Project, using the Citizeen app. This initiative was led by Cáritas Coimbra, MARE UC, and OWL at Ribeira da Arregaça in Coimbra, with around 30 participants. Through the Citizeen app, volunteers got hands-on, learning about the stream, mapping biodiversity, and tackling […]