Projects

Pharaon (Pilots for Healthy and Active Ageing) is a European project with the objective to make smart and active living for Europe’s ageing population a reality by creating a set of integrated and highly customizable interoperable open platforms with advanced services, devices, and tools including IoT, artificial intelligence, robotics, cloud computing, smart wearables, big data, […]

ValueCare aims to contribute to the sustainability of the social and health systems in Europe, as well as to the job satisfaction and well-being of professionals working in these areas. It proposes to provide an integrated and efficient social and health care digital solution to improve the quality of life of older citizens (with cognitive […]

Smartwork (Smart Age-friendly Living and Working Environment) financed by the European Union, under Horizon 2020, aims at developing and validating innovative digital solutions so older workers can remain actively involved in their working life by helping them to renew their work skills and adopt healthier lifestyles, taking into account any age-related health conditions. The project […]

EU_SHAFE – Europe Enabling Smart Healthy Age-friendly Environments Oficially started on August 2019, the EU_SHAFE project aims at improving policies and practices in 7 European regions by developing a comprehensive approach to Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments (SHAFE). Through a ‘learning by sharing’ methodology, the project Consortium, composed by a well balanced group of multi-disciplinary actors […]

DAPAS (Deploying AAL Packages at Scale) aims at delivering a innovative solution, which is based on the needs of older adults and their relatives. The project will bring together successful outputs of previous AAL projects, like Emma, DALIA, zocaalo, kwido and RelaxedCare, developed from different companies in different countries. These innovative solutions will be combined […]

The Hands-on-Shafe project aims to provide a robust, safe and replicable digital solution for integrated social and health care to improve the quality of life and well-being of older people (with cognitive decline, conditions or multiple comorbidities), and their formal and informal caregivers. The project will be tested in Europe on 7 large-scale pilots, with […]

TriploD project aims to increase the democratic involvement and political participation of citizens by working on the connections between democracy, demography and human rights. For that purpose, it will develop education/training sessions and school and community discussion groups, seeking to empower and educate professionals, community workers, children and young people, vulnerable people and seniors, helping […]

Robots are increasingly being used in the healthcare sector as a potential solution to the current and future challenges faced by the healthcare sector. The LIFEBOTS Exchange project aims to create a new reality of care with the inclusion of social robots, through interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral and international cooperation and the exchange of people and knowledge. A […]

In June 2018, we invited a range of Portuguese organizations to create a broad network of partners around the themes of Inclusive Environments for All Ages and Ageing in Place. This invitation was brought on the context of several initiatives already under way in which Caritas Coimbra and Coimbra’s Nursing School participate at the European […]

The IGCAL project, approved by the Erasmus+ program of the European Commission, aims to increase the quality of adult education. To this end, it proposes to develop a pedagogical tool to map the basic learning parameters of adult learners and thus support the creation and access to professional qualification pathways.