After the success of the Veggies4myheart project, lead by Cátia Pontes, and its recognition as the best national project of the year in the category of Community nutrition and public health, the digital and didactic game can now be found in a book version, called “Who wants to go to the village market?”. The february 15 was the chosen day to present the book at ciTechCare, a ceremony that counted on several researchers and other professionals that wanted to know more about the way this project is contributing to promote the consumption of vegetables in preschool children and increase health

Maria Guarino, ciTechCare coordinator, expressed her opinion about what is expected from a Doctorate but also how the society should look at these professionals as a way of “driving for change and innovation”, particularly, within companies.  A Doctorate can manage to “identify problems, sugest criative solutions and test them as a reliable solution” so “besides the technical functions, Doctorates should be considered to discuss societal, financial and stategic issues.”  Read the full article: https://www.diarioleiria.pt/edicoes (edition 23 November 2022)   This work was funded by Portuguese national funds provided by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P. FCT/UI/05704/2020

The event of the fruit and vegetable industry took place on 9 and 10 February, at the Montebelo Mosteiro de Alcobaça Historic Hotel, the monastery where the monks originally have developed innovation and technology, especially in terms of irrigation. This time was the opportunity for researchers, technicians and others agents in the sector to discuss problems and innovative solutions for the main fruit crops, from production to post-harvest. ciTechCare was represented at this 5th National Symposium of Fruit Growing, with the participation of the researchers Marisa Gaspar and Ana Cristina Rodrigues through the presentation of the poster entitled: “From the

The Health Innovation Hub received last 10 February Jorge Moya Higueras, lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Psychology and Social Work from University of Lleida, in Spain, and principal researcher in neuropsychology, genes and environment research team, Nuria Vita-Barrull, PhD student and part of the this team and Micael Sousa, PhD student on Territory Planning at the Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment, at the University of Porto. What these professionals have in common is their research work on the impact of board games, mainly on the cognitive, emotional, educative and behavioral benefits of playing board games and how can

Professor Dina Brooks, vice-dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of McMaster, in Hamilton, Canada and a renowned researcher from the West Park Healthcare Centre and the St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, in Canada, in pulmonary and cardiovascular rehabilitation, physical exercise and aging, came to the Polytechnic of Leiria, January 30 and 31, to a scientific sharing moment to talk about Rehabilitation in Chronic Lung Disease and also to listening from ciTechCare researchers about the projects what have been developed in this field of work. The session entitled ‘Rehabilitation in chronic lung disease: more than exercise’ happened in

Talking about funding and innovation requires an extensive knowledge of the opportunities around us and the conditions someone can ask for financial support.  Vítor Ferreira, General Manager of Startup Leiria, came to the last session of Campus 5 O’Clock Talk to share his expertise on this theme, what brought a discussion and a focus on how important is to take risks from an early age and to understand the potencial of each project. This is a hot theme, particularly for the researchers community that needs to be aware of the funding possibilities in order to bring innovation into the society.