Following the pre-pilot implemented at the Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra (CDC) in the period of 1 October 2020 – 15 January 2021, within the scope of the Horizon 2020 SmartWork project, the project’s Ethics Committee, led by CDC, met for the second time on March 5th to follow up on trial related ethical tasks. To that purpose, a brief …

On February 1st, 2021, the SmartWork technical partners (Byte, UPAT, SPARKS, RRD, COIN, IPN and RtF-I) met online to discuss the achievements of the two years of the project and to establish the roadmap towards the deployment of the final prototype of the integrated SmartWork system. In particular, the second year of the SmartWork project …

Some time ago, I was visiting a friend at home and his older father was in the living room reading the news on his brand new iPad. The father suffered from presbyopia and cataracts, so in order to see the screen he used an old, Sherlock-Holmes-like magnifying glass. I asked my friend, a younger, technology-savvy …

A new Data Visualization tool for understanding the issues around ageing workforce The European Commission together with the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) have designed a visualisation tool to allow easy and quick access to the results of its three-year project “Safer and healthier work at any age — occupational safety …