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October is the Positive Ageing Month and, to mark the occasion, ciTechCare promoted a Science Swing session dedicated to boost healthy ageing through the use of serious games, as a therapeutic strategy in the area of monitoring, multidimensional intervention and health education. This session took place at the Health Innovation Hub of ciTechCare, on October 29th, at 10am. The session was led by 3 researchers in the area of serious games. Marlene Rosa, researcher and founder of the project Agilidades, a SPIN-OFF of the Polytechnic of Leiria that aims to develop services and products supporting new paradigms of a dignified,

On october 23, aTOPlab, Assistive Technology and Occupational Performance Laboratory, from ciTechCare hosted a Science Swing session on ‘Research on Accessibility, a path to functionality, autonomy and Inclusion’, at 2:30 pm. The session was led by several speakers whose presentations was focused on their academic, professional but also personal background, on inclusion and accessibility, since among the participants there were people with visual impairments. Mariana Baierle, PhD student at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, with specialization in applied linguistics, is still conducting research at the aTOPlab, throughout the month of October, as she was selected in a

ciTechCare researcher Joana Cruz was in international mobility at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), where she promoted a graduate course in Physiotherapy on emerging technologies in physical activity monitoring, and participated in the public doctoral exam of the student Naiara Leonardi, as a member of the orientation team. Over two weeks, the researcher got to know the various projects taking place in the laboratories of the Departments of Physiotherapy and Gerontology of the University, and visited the Health-School Unit and the UFSCar. Joana Cruz also had the opportunity to meet the Hospitals of the Clinics of the Faculty