Category Archives: Notícias

From 4-6 September, Cáritas Coimbra will be present at the meeting of the AVIK cultural exchange and social inclusion project in Valencia – Spain. This is a project funded by the Erasmus+ program of the European Union. The third meeting’s agenda includes the presentation of the project’s website and Facebook page, as well as the […]

Cáritas Coimbra will be in Aarhus – Denmark, on September 23rd, during AAL Forum, to participate in the kick-off meeting of the EU_SHAFE project (Europe Enabling Smart Healthy Age-friendly Environments). This project is co-financed by INTERREG Europe and led by municipality of Bizkaya. Cáritas Coimbra is one of the 10 partners of EU_SHAFE project. This […]

Cáritas Coimbra, represented by Carina Dantas, as Innovation Director and Coordinator (with AFEdemy), of the Stakeholders Network on SHAFE (Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments), is part of the Organizing Committee of the European Conference on Ageing and Gerontology (EGen2019), which will take place on 7–8 December, 2019. Cáritas Coimbra has recognized the great social challenges brought by the demographic changes and has promoted, […]

Cáritas Coimbra and the European Network SHAFE (Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments) are partners in the organization of the workshop “Healthy ageing in cities and regions: inspiring examples to frame the future” that will take place on 9 October 2019, during the European Week of Regions and Cities, at The Square – Mont des Arts, Brussels. […]

The 2nd national event of the Portuguese Network on Smart, Healthy and Age-Friendly Environments was held in Faro, Algarve, on June 28. This meeting included international guests and thematic workshops to work on the actions planned by the Network for 2019. The event had over 60 participants from the general public and members of the Network […]

Cáritas Coimbra, represented by Ana Luísa Jegundo and Natália Machado from the Innovation Department, participated in the first consortium meeting of the DAPAS project, on 09 and 10 July 2019, in Bilbao, Spain. This meeting happened after the successful kick-off meeting in Graz, Austria in September 2018. Warmly hosted at the University of Deusto, the […]

Cáritas Coimbra hosted the 2nd SmartWork Consortium Meeting, which took place on June 25 at its headquarters. SmartWork partners met on 25 and 26 June in Coimbra, Portugal, for the second face-to-face Consortium meeting. This followed a successful kick-off meeting in Athens in January 2019. The SmartWork project, funded by the European Union under the […]

LET’S DISCUSS Smart, Healthy and Age-Friendly Environments in Algarve on June 28. The Portuguese Network on Smart, Healthy and Age-Friendly Environments will hold an INTERNATIONAL EVENT + WORKSHOP on June 28, 2019, at the CCDR Algarve facilities, in Faro. The meeting will be attended by Joan Martin, Executive Director of the Louth County Council (the […]

Cáritas Coimbra was  at the PETRA conference in Rhodes, Greece, from June 5 to 7, under the SmartWork project. The SmartWork project, funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020, aims to develop and validate innovative digital solutions so that older workers can remain actively involved in working life, helping them to renew their work […]

Cáritas Coimbra participated in the III Meeting – Ageing: The two sides of Caring promoted by Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Montemor-o-Novo, on June 7. Ana Jegundo, from the Innovation Department, joined the 3rd Panel of the afternoon on social and technological innovation on care, to address the theme of the use of new technologies […]