Category Archives: Notícias
Cáritas Coimbra will be attending the Nortexcel Care Workshop | Centre of Excellence in Medical Technologies, to be held on October 25 at the Magno Auditorium of the School of Health of the Polytechnic of Porto (ESS). Cáritas will be represented by Carina Dantas, Innovation Department Director, who will moderate the session “New technologies applied […]
His Excellence, the President of the Portuguese Republic, sent Cáritas Coimbra a support message with several recommendations on the Thematic network SHAFE – Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments. In 2018 SHAFE will deliver a Framing Paper and a Joint Statement on Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments (deadline October 25th) that will be presented to the European Commission […]
The Thematic Network on Smart Healthy Age Friendly Environments (SHAFE) was presented by Willeke van Staalduinen (AFEdemy) during a combined session of Eurocities and Action Group D4 of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA), last July 3rd, in Manchester. For two days, more than 50 participants gathered in the UK to […]
The Thematic Network Smart Healthy Age Friendly Environments (TN SHAFE), coordinated by Cáritas Coimbra and AFEdemy and assigned by the European Commission (DG SANTE) cordially invites you to participate in an online survey. The survey is an essential part of the Thematic Network 2018 SHAFE. The purpose of SHAFE is to define a common position […]
The first webinar of SHAFE took place on 19 June, at 4pm CET There were 41 participants present and the programme was the following: Introduction Mr Giulio Gallo, Deputy Head of Unit, Country Knowledge and Scientific Committees (C2, DG SANTE), European Commission. Presentation of Smart Healthy Age Friendly Environments Consortium, context, challenges, objectives Carina […]
Caritas Coimbra, with AFEdemy Lda, will coordinate one of the three Thematic Networks of the European Commission for 2018, with the theme Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments. This proposal was presented as a strategic initiative for a joint declaration in 2018. Ten proposals were voted until December 7th in the European Union Health Policy Platform, Cáritas’ one was […]
Cáritas Coimbra is in Brussels today, 25th of January, to participate actively in a creative experimental workshop organized by the Agile Aging Alliance, together with Enterprise Europe Network and Innovate UK. Carina Dantas, from the Innovation Department of Cáritas Coimbra, presented the methodology of the institution in creating new approaches to support ageing, based on […]
Cáritas Coimbra will be disseminating project GrowMeUp as a speaker in at least 4 different sessions of the Conference of Partners of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing, that will be held in Brussels between the 26th and the 28th of February. This Conference, organised by the European Comission, will allow Caritas […]
Cáritas Coimbra will participate as speaker in the AgeingFit2018 Conference, next 6th and 7th February in Nice, France. This is the first European business convention dedicated to innovation in the healthy ageing sector, gathering all actors in the innovation cycle from research to market, along with the key players in regulation and evaluation with the […]
At the facilities of the Rainha Santa Isabel Center, on January 19, a group of young people from social responses from Caritas in Coimbra had the opportunity to observe and interact with the robot GrowMu, in a real environment. The youths observed the robot’s interactions with the older persons at the Day Care Center, asked […]