On February 18, the MOBI-AGE project team organized a public session at Casa do Infante in the city of Porto where it brought together different entities interested in the theme of cities and aging. It counted on the presence of Mr. Alderman of Urbanism of the Porto City Council (PCC), Architect Pedro Baganha, who presented …
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After presenting the results of the project in the city of Coimbra, on December 10, 2019 at the Centro de Dia Ateneu, the project team will now hold a similar session in the city of Porto. On February 18th, the team will present the results of the project ‘MOBI-AGE – Promotion of Mobility for Aged …
On January 21st, the MOBI-AGE team went to the Columbia University where we presented the work we have been developing in the scope of the project. The Columbia Aging Center is an endowed, university-wide, interdisciplinary research and policy center anchored in the Mailman School of Public Health, one of the world’s leading schools of public …
On January 17th, the MOBI-AGE team went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where we presented the work we have been developing in the scope of the project. The MOBI-AGE project, part of the MIT-Portugal program, has a direct partnership with the MIT AGE Lab department. This department is composed of a multidisciplinary team …
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On December 10, the results obtained to date under the MOBI-AGE project were presented and publicly debated at the Day Center Ateneu in Coimbra. It was a very interesting and productive session as it brought together users of the space, with the presence of elderly people who participated in the research and also with technicians, …
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On December 10th, Tuesday, the MOBI-Age project team will organize a public session to present the results obtained under the project. It will take place at the Ateneu Day Center, located in the Sé Velha of the city of Coimbra, at 2p.m., and will have as guests representatives of the project’s partner social institutions , …
On December 3, 2019, as part of the “Stepping out Innovation Cycle, Civil Engineering on display”, which had a central theme: “From Planning to City Management”, Porto’s MOBI-Age team, presented the project, with some of the results achieved and some objectives for the final phase of the project. The conference was guided by Prof. Paulo …
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On October 21, 2019, the MOBI-AGE project team interviewed four tourists and one elderly resident in the Historic Center of the city of Coimbra. We had the opportunity to talk to four seniors from Australia. This group was sitting on a terrace in the historic center. They told us that they were enjoying the city …
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On October 1, 2019, The “MOBI-Age” project team attended a Round Table organized by the “GRAMP CITY” project whose theme was “Aging and Daily Mobility” and was held with the aim of celebrating the “International Elderly Day”. There was a very interesting discussion between stakeholders from various areas, namely specialists in the field of geography, …
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On September 27, 2019, the MOBI-AGE project team interviewed some tourists in the Historic Center of the city of Coimbra. We had the opportunity to talk to eight seniors from Belgium, United States and Canada. They told us that they were very pleased with urban space in the Historic Center of Coimbra in general. The …
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