“Centro de Cidadania Digital (CCD)” is the result of a new concept of smartcities where citizens themselves, in a collaborative way, take ownership of digital tools and propose solutions for their community, making the city smarter, more human and more participatory.
“Onde, Quando e Como Eu Quiser” (OQCQ) “is a project in which personalities and experts from the Portuguese panorama share views and experiences about the internet and technology and, above all, how digital platforms have transformed the various areas of society and consumption habits.
Free Code Camp Algarve is currently composed of 2 study groups. One that meets every Monday at IKEA, Mar Shopping Algarve, and another study group that meets every Thursday at Startup Portimão.
In a digital age where we have easy access to almost all information, it is important to recognize the value of Intellectual Property (IP) as a protection of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship.
The participation of Santo Tirso Municipality in the 1st Conference of the Permanent Forum for Digital Skills, as part of the National Initiative for Digital Skills e.2030 | Portugal INCoDe.2030, combined with the municipal strategic objective of administrative modernization, triggered the need to create a municipal plan for digital skills, with a view to promoting digital skills in Santo Tirso Municipality, differentiated and sensitive to different local contexts.
“MAKE CODE: PROGRAMA O TEU FUTURO”, developed by Fundação da Juventude, was created to improve the digital skills of the young population, promoting the increase in the levels of Digital Literacy of this population. It is a project to support Education, which uses learning tools based on computer games involving students and that reinforces their motivation in learning, facilitating the educational task of Teachers.
This action consists of Digital Literacy sessions for seniors over 65 years old, promoted by students and supervised by volunteers and/or teachers. The “Nós e (A)vós “Project is an intergenerational project, it is an Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation (IIES) designed by Sicó Formation S.A., owner of the Technological and Professional School of Sicó (ETP Sicó) and supported from the first minute by the Avelar Parish Council and Leca Portugal, S.A., as Social Investors.
During the summer season and, in particular, during August, the traditional vacation month, Póvoa de Varzim – Vila do Conde Hospital Center launches a campaign called “O Hospital vai à praia”
This educational project of digital inclusion aims to demystify the use of technology through a set of training actions in order to provide the population with knowledge and tools that allow them to perform basic actions such as creating and managing an email account, carrying out a search online, consult and use digital public services, among others.
Starting from a reality observed at Natixis in Portugal in 2018 – among the almost 600 employees, only 20% were women – Senior Management realized that something was wrong with the team’s gender balance and quickly identified that the problem was in the market technological work, nationally and globally.
