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Cáritas Coimbra participated as a speaker in the digital Think Tank of the “PME no Radar” initiative, dedicated to Technology in times of “new normal”. The session, promoted by Jornal de Negócios in partnership with Santander (Portugal), took place on April 28 and the public was able to follow live on social networks. The institutional opening of […]

In 2014 Cáritas Coimbra took the first steps in working with social robots, through the GrowMeUp project, funded by the European Commission’s H2020 programme. This project developed a robot to support the needs of citizens over 65 in their daily life tasks. Enhancing the dialogue between the person and the robot, alerts for taking medication, […]

Cáritas Coimbra participated in the virtual meeting of the Lifebots project, which took place on March 27th. Coimbra was expected to host this meeting, but given the situation in Portugal (and in the world) the consortium gave priority to public health and opted to meet via videoconference. Natália Machado, from Cáritas Coimbra’s Innovation Department, participated […]

Cáritas Coimbra will participate in the virtual meeting of the Lifebots project, scheduled for March 27th. Coimbra was expected to host this meeting, but given the situation in Portugal (and in the world) the consortium gave priority to public health and opted to meet via videoconference. This meeting will essentially focus on the development of […]

For two weeks, from January 9th to 23th, Cáritas Coimbra will be in exchange in the Norwegian city of Trondheim, as part of the Lifebots Exchange project. During this period, Flávia Rodrigues, from the Department of Innovation of Cáritas Coimbra, will be welcomed at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) to carry out […]

Natália Machado, Cáritas Coimbra project manager, arrived in Kosice, on August 16 to the first two weeks of the Cáritas secondment in TUKE. During this first period of secondment, Natália, Peter and Marek worked together to build a questionnaire: “new technologies and social robots in care – the caregiver’s perception”. The aim is to analyse […]

Cáritas Coimbra will participate, for the third consecutive year, in AAL Forum, which will take place this year in Aarhus – Denmark, from 23-26 September. Carina Dantas and Ana Luísa Jegundo from the Innovation Department are members of the AAL Forum Organizing Committee for the second time, having participated in several meetings throughout the year […]