Ana Veloso, Cláudia Ortet, Francisco Regalado and Tânia Ribeiro applied for the Prémio de Boas Práticas de Envelhecimento Ativo e Saudável na Região Centro/Good Practices Award for Active and Healthy Ageing in the Central Region of Portugal (2022 edition). The candidates submitted their projects at the Knowledge+ category with good practices that value research and technologies in active and healthy ageing.
In detail, Tânia Ribeiro, Ana Veloso, Cláudia Ortet and Francisco Regalado were finalists with the good practice “Digital Travel for Senior Citizens: 360° Virtual Tourism”, that aims to enable different profiles of seniors to travel virtually to places they would like to know or revisit. The team was one of the three finalists of the Knowledge + category, presented their project at the 9th Active and Healthy Ageing Congress of the Center Region, on December 6, 2022, at Convento São Francisco, in Coimbra, and won an honourable mention.
This initiative, which is now in its fifth edition, counted with 130 good practices and is carried out in collaboration with the Ageing@Coimbra and AgeINfuture consortia, with the aim of boosting the dissemination and recognition of projects and practices that promote active and healthy ageing in the Center Region of Portugal.
It is also worth mention that Cláudia Ortet, Ana Veloso and Liliana Costa were semi-finalists with the good practice “Jizo: A Gamified App for Senior Cyclotourism”, and Francisco Regalado, Ana Veloso and Liliana Costa also applied with “Gamifying News for the miOne Online Community”.