Category Archives: Notícias

Cáritas Coimbra will be at LifeScience Park in Krakow, Poland, to participate in the EIP-AHA D4 Action Group Meeting on Friendly Environments on May 9 and 10. On behalf of Cáritas Coimbra, Ana Luísa Jegundo, from the Innovation Department, will share experiences and good practices based on the implementation of ongoing projects, such as the […]

Cáritas Coimbra will attend the meeting of the D4 Action Group of the European Innovation Partnership for Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA) at LifeScience Park in Kraków – Poland on May 9 and 10. Cáritas Coimbra, represented by Carina Dantas, Director of the Innovation Department, will make on May 9 a presentation of dissemination of […]

The Portuguese Network on Smart, Healthy and Age-Friendly Environments already has a place in the EU Health Policy Platform (https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/hpf/). This is the first network with a national space spoken in non-English language, which is officially created on this platform of the European Commission. The Portuguese Network also integrates the International Group of Ecosystems of […]

Caritas Coimbra presented the result of its most recent research work, in the 7th Edition of the WorldCist’19 Conference, on April 16, 2019, on the island of La Toja, Spain. The article “Usability evaluation of a Virtual Assistive Companion” presents the results of a usability study carried out in different social equipments of the institution, […]

Cáritas Coimbra was present at the 6th edition of Shift APPens as a mentor of the Hack For Good challenges together with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, from April 5 to 7, at the Mário Mexia Multi-sports Municipal Pavilion. This event was an authentic marathon of development and programming that brought together for three days designers, […]

Cáritas Coimbra, represented by its Innovation Director – Carina Dantas, is participating as a member of the Advisory Board in the new European project “Homes4Life” – Certification for ageing in place and in the community, funded by the H2020. Currently, a large proportion of buildings are not adapted to allow the older adults to age […]

Cáritas Coimbra hosted the 3rd meeting of the AAL Forum Organizing Committee 2019, which took place on April 11 and 12 at its headquarters. The Innovation Department recived the partners of the Committee and jointly conducted the evaluation of the proposed workshops, the planning of the Program and of the upcoming meetings. The Active and Assisted […]

Cáritas Coimbra, represented by Ana Luísa Jegundo of the Innovation Department, will participate in the 7th Edition of the WorldCist’19 Conference, on April 16, 2019 in La Toja, Spain. This conference is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the latest innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the various perspectives […]

Cáritas Coimbra has already started the training sessions for the older adults that are participating in the ReHab project, funded by the “BPI Seniores 2018” programme. In order to present to the participants the materials they can find within the multidimensional kit that they will be able to use very soon, in the comfort of […]

Cáritas Coimbra will be in Thessaloniki – Greece, March 18-20, to attend the second meeting of the AVIK cultural exchange and social inclusion project. This is a project funded by the European Commission’s Erasmus + program. Representing the institution will be Flávia Rodrigues and Sofia Ortet. In the second meeting of this project of exchange […]