Category Archives: Notícias
On the 21st of June, Cáritas Coimbra received the international partners of the ValueCare project, so that they could get to know the context in which the large-scale Portuguese pilot is being implemented. The international team was represented by Erasmus Medical Centre, from the Netherlands, in the person of project coordinator Hein Raat and project […]
On June 8th, the SUST-AID kick-off meeting was held in Warsaw, Poland. This project aims to fill current gaps and needs in knowledge, training and skills by developing and evaluating a training programme for the delivery of sustainable food aid programmes. SUST-AID is funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme and is partnered by 6 […]
Cáritas Coimbra, through its Department of Innovation, has launched another recruitment for the large-scale pilot of which it is part of the Pharaon project. On June 21st, tablets began to be distributed on which the project’s technology will be tested by users of Cáritas Coimbra services. Pharaon aims to support the active aging of the […]
In the past June 15th to 17th, the President of Cáritas Coimbra, Prof. Dr. Manuel Antunes, participated, in Rome, in the Ministerial Conference on Ageing of the UNECE – United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. At this meeting, the Action Plan for Ageing of the UNECE Region was discussed and approved. Prior to this, there […]
On June 8th and 9th, Cáritas Coimbra, represented by Bruna Franceschini from the Innovation Department, attended the ValueCare project consortium meeting, in hybrid format, in Opatija, Croatia. The meeting served essentially to discuss and evaluate the project’s developments. Each partner shared the tasks they had accomplished and, at the end, they discussed the next steps […]
The Innovation Department of Cáritas Coimbra met again on 31 May to discuss the implementation of the pilot ValueCare project. Approved under the H2020 programme, ValueCare intends to provide a digital solution at the level of integrated and efficient social and health care, aimed at improving the life quality of older people (with cognitive decline, […]
On the 24th and 25th of May, the kickoff meeting of the newest European project of which Cáritas Coimbra is a part took place. The project is IDEAHL – Improving Digital Empowerment for Active Healthy Living, which receives funding from the European Union (EU) under the Horizon 2020 programme. The kickoff meeting took place in […]
On May 19th and 20th, the first face-to-face meeting of the AGAPE project consortium took place. The meeting happener in Florence, Italy, and representing Cáritas Coimbra were Natália Machado and Elisabete Pitarma, from the Innovation Department. The objectives of this meeting were accomplished, leaving some important results. For Cáritas Coimbra, responsible for ethics and co-creation, […]
Cáritas Coimbra was recently awarded by the Joint Forum of Civil Society and Scientific Research, thanks to its video “Active ageing and well-being”. This award comes within the scope of the international video competition “Active ageing with joy”, promoted by the Joint Forum, in which dozens of entities from different countries competed, but only 10 […]
On the 28th of April 2022, the kickoff meeting of the new SUST-AID project took place. It started during the month of March and will last for 36 months. Representing Cáritas Coimbra were Elisabete Pitarma and Renata Gonçalves, from the Innovation Department. The meeting was moderated by the coordinating partner (Poland) and its aim was […]