Category Archives: Notícias
On December 7, Cáritas de Coimbra was present at the Annual Meeting of the ECHAlliance Network in Brussels. This conference addressed the many initiatives around Europe that work towards a better implementation of digital health. Progress made on international ecosystems as well as opportunities for future collaboration were presented. There has also been discussion about […]
On December 6 Cáritas Coimbra was represented by Ana Luísa Jegundo at the 4th Annual Meeting of the COCIR Digital Health Summit – The Voice of Stakeholders, to discuss the digital transformation of social and health care. It was discussed the importance of a substantial reform in this regard against the requirements of the future […]
On November 28th, Caritas Coimbra participated in the 5th Active and Healthy Ageing Regional Congress promoted by the Ageing @ Coimbra consortium, of which the institution is a partner. The Congress was an important space for sharing knowledge, information and exchange of good practices in the field of active aging. Cáritas Coimbra had the opportunity […]
Caritas Coimbra was present at the ERA Social Innovation Conference, New Perspectives for Social Innovation, which took place on November 27 and 28 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. This was an event organized jointly by the European Commission, the Portuguese Government and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The conference aimed to boost social innovation […]
Cáritas Coimbra participated in the meeting of the working group D4 – Age-friendly buildings, cities and environments, on 16-17 November, in the city of Hamburg. The event comes under the European Innovation Partnership for Active and Healthy Ageing. This meeting aimed to bring together all partners with an interest in the work of this collaborative […]
Caritas Coimbra participated as a speaker at the Fórum Solidão (Solitude Forum) – Olhar, Capacitar e Transformar (Look, Empower, Transform), in Panel I of debate, with the Theme Can technology connect people?. The event took place on October 13, at the Colégio de S. Gonçalo in Amarante. In the panel, the theme of isolation and […]
The event took place at the Lisbon Congress Center on 21 and 22 September and brought together senior officials from 49 Member States of the UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) as well as other relevant entities, namely the United Nations The European Commission, the OECD and representatives of five CPLP countries and also […]
Caritas Coimbra will present the Manual of Good Practices for Prevention of Falls in Older People, in a public session to be held at its facilities, on September 27th at 5:00 p.m. Caritas Coimbra recognized an added value in this Handbook, whose subject matter is extremely important for the institution itself, in accordance with its […]
Cáritas Coimbra was present at the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Human-Robot Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2017 held in Lisbon from August 28th to September 01st. This symposium is a reference forum where innovative, results, the latest developments and future perspectives related to Human-Robot Interactive Communication were presented and discussed. The conference covered a wide range […]
On 22-23 August, Cáritas Coimbra hosted the researcher Martina Caic, PhD student at the University of Maastricht under the Marie-Curie program (H2020), to collaborate on the activities of the GrowMeUp project, also funded by the European Union Horizon 2020. The researcher is conducting a study that aims to analyze the difference between being a caregiver […]