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What´s new in the 2023 FCT Call for R&D projects? – A Campus 5 O’Clock Talk session

25 January 2024

The first session of Campus 5 O’Clock Talk of the year took place on January 18, at 5 pm, at Campus 5 of the Polytechnic of Leiria. Maria Guarino guided the session whose aim was to inform and clarify the 2 announced calls by FCT, together with the National Innovation Agency (ANI), to fund R&D projects in all scientific fields: scientific research and technological development projects and exploratory projects. Applications are ongoing until March 1. However, the submission process requires the filling of a specific form. This session gathered around 40 participants (in presence and online), in order to

ciTechCare research fellows participated in the Youth Exchange School programme, in the Netherlands

22 January 2024

From December 4th to 8th, 2023, Sara Pimenta and Marlene Lages, ciTechCare research fellows, participated in the Youth Exchange School (YES) Solving Wicked Problems Through Design Based Education coordinated by the NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands, within the scope of the Regional University Network – European University. The Youth Exchange School programme (YES), is an inclusive and enriching learning short-mobility experience for students promoting the EU’s priority areas and fostering a sense of European identity and cooperation, by discussing complex societal issues and thinking on realistic solutions, based on innovative approaches. During these days, the programme allowed

Project MorphoPlay distinguished at the Spotlight Awards 2023

28 December 2023

Morphoplay, the project that consists in the creation of a prototype for the evaluation of morphological knowledge in children in the 2nd to 4th grade, was distinguished in the category of Best Student Game in the Spotlight Awards 2023, whose ceremony took place on November 20, at the Marvila Library in Lisbon. Students of Games and Multimedia degree, from the Polytechnic of Leiria, in collaboration with researchers from ciTechCare and CIIC, Computer Science and Communication Research Centre, developed the awarded Costa Nova game, created to assess implicit and explicit morphological knowledge, by collecting linguistic data using derived words. In

Jornal de Leiria highlights ciTechCare research in the 50th anniversary of ESSlei

14 December 2023

The School of Health Sciences of the Polytechnic of Leiria celebrated its 50th anniversary on December 5. This was the reason that led Jornal de Leiria to produce a magazine entitled ‘Escola de Saúde 5 anos’, where ciTechCare is pointed out as a desired health research unit that, after 4 years has demonstrated its maturity, through the development of several projects recognized nationally and internationally. To Jornal de Leiria, Maria Guarino, Director of ciTechCare, underlined several projects developed at the Health Innovation Hub, not only in the field of palliative care, but also in health literacy, engineering or nutrition. Oncoenergy, Help2Care Pal, LISA,

Unveiling words: lexical/morphological processing and speech therapy – a science swing session

12 December 2023

Carina Pinto, principal researcher of the MorphoPlay project, José Ferrari Neto, Márcio Martins Leitão and Gustavo Lopez Estivalet, researchers from the Federal University of Paraiba – Brazil, working on the lexical and linguistic processing, gathered on the last science swing session that took place at the auditorium of the The School of Health Sciences (ESSLei), on November 28, from 11 am to 1 pm. Researchers guided this session focused on speech therapy and linguistics and shared the projects in which they are involved, such as the MorphoPlay whose main goal is to create a test to assess morphological knowledge based on the assessment on

Marlene Lages and Rui Jorge participated at the 27th Portuguese Congress on Obesity

11 December 2023

The 27th Portuguese Congress on Obesity, organized by the Portuguese Society for the Study of Obesity, took place from 10 to 11 November, in Porto, at Hotel Crowne Plaza. ciTechCare was represented by Rui Jorge, researcher at this unit and lecturer at Coimbra Health School and Marlene Lages, PhD fellow, through the presentation of their posters. At this congress, based on the subject ‘Obesity: lose weight, get healthy’ therapeutic strategies for the treatment of obesity were discussed, including lifestyle interventions and pharmacological and surgical therapies. The poster “Analysis of the labeling of dietary supplements for weight loss and possible