Category Archives: Notícias

On June 7th took place in Fernando Namora Secondary School, the closing event of the group “Youth in Action” of Condeixa-a-Nova, created in the scope of the ALLright(s) project. Throughout the morning there were sports and educational activities, with the special participation of Bruna Catarino, Designer at Cáritas de Coimbra and Rui Martins, Sensei at […]

Last June 2nd, the group “Youth in Action”, from Carapinheira (Montemor-o-Velho, Coimbra), presented to the educational community the final work done in the scope of the ALLright(s) – Direitos para tod@s project, from Cáritas Coimbra. This group, composed by young people from the Doutor José dos Santos Bessa Elementary School, made a public presentation in […]

On June 14th, the PHILIP partners met in Vilnius, Lithuania, for the fourth consortium meeting of the project. All partner entities participated including Cáritas Coimbra, represented by Ana Goreti Oliveira and Vera Pinto, from the Innovation Department. PHILIP is finalising the manual “Education for Health: Innovative Approaches to Enhancing Youth Health Literacy” aimed at education […]

At Cáritas Coimbra, the activities of the IDEAHL project continue to be exciting! Over the past few weeks, three workshops were held for the development of the Atlas of Health Literacy. The Atlas aims to be an interactive tool to make public the results of the broad literature review carried out within the scope of […]

After the COVID-19 pandemic and the outbreak of war in Ukraine, Cáritas Coimbra, together with partners from four other countries, is confident that food aid programmes should be improved and should strive to be as sustainable to ensure equal access to healthy and high-quality food for all. Sustainability in food production and food aid chains […]

During April and May, Cáritas Coimbra and the Instituto Pedro Nunes promoted 4 events to present the DigiLife – Digital Life Learning project to higher education students. The sessions took place at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Coimbra, at the Miguel Torga Institute of Higher Education, and at the […]

Cáritas Coimbra participated in a pilot study to assess the usability and feasibility of a Physical Activity Prescription System (SPAF), characterised as a programme that allows older people aged 60 or over to perform physical training under prescription and clinical monitoring. The action was promoted in partnership with the University of Aveiro and arose under […]

Last Wednesday, May 31st, Cáritas Coimbra was in Brussels, for the Mid Term Review (MTR) of the AGAPE project, as one of the AGAPE pilot sites and responsible for the AGAPE Ethical Committee. The MTR of the project was an opportunity for the AGAPE consortium to present to the reviewers the progress and results the […]

The Pharaon Plenary Meeting took place in Malaga (Spain) from May 9th to 11th. This consortium meeting aimed to present the developments of the work carried out in recent months, reflect on the most emerging issues, and outline objectives and tasks for the coming months. Cáritas Coimbra (CDC) was represented by two project managers from […]

The ValueCare European project consortium met in Athens (Greece) for its 10th plenary meeting. The meeting took place on 20th and 21st April, at the Athens Medical Grοup headquarters, and was attended by all the project partners, including Cáritas Coimbra, which was represented by Bruna Franceschini and Maria Inês Santos from the Innovation Department. Over […]