The community, the council, and the schools
The council of Cascais aims to collect real data to support decision making. The conclusions of this survey result on a broader perspective and will contribute to the promotion/implementation of programs for students’ sports development in elementary schools.
We would like to express our gratitude to the 1 569 educational guardians who participated in this questionnaire, representing 31% of the parents of the elementary school community. Your experience and opinion helped us gather useful information to act and promote positive trends among the youngest.
Data points to a positive path
We are aware that parental choices are reflected in the lives of their children. The responses to this questionnaire confirm a growing collective awareness of the benefits of adopting a healthy lifestyle. Mixing physical exercise with a balanced dose of nutrition, adding moments of leisure, among games and laughter, are some of the foundations that are part of a healthier life path.
This interactive dashboard gives you an overview of the main findings of the survey. A few insights below:
Physical activity
Around 60% of respondents consider that physical activity in schools contributes to a good physical and motor development. It should be noted that 67% consider that their child should have more physical activity at school.
Food
When asked about the most consumed breakfast items, the numbers reflect a growing concern with healthier choices, placing cereals at the top of the "food chain" and cakes in last place, with 7%.
Activities/Leisure
The data is optimistic, with 92% of respondents confirming that their children usually play in public spaces. In terms of access, around 90% live nearby playgrounds.
Explore and create data visualizations with the Quality of Life data available in open format.
Opportunities for an active, dynamic and healthy life
The notion of quality of life is widely associated with health and well-being. The space in which we live and the conditions it provides contribute greatly to the creation of a healthy life, based on an active, conscious and sustainable lifestyle. In Cascais, we provide all the conditions for you to enjoy a complete state of physical and mental well-being
The Health Academy is a municipal initiative that aims to inform and raise public awareness about healthy practices, and from these, build their health and quality of life journey.
Health promotion occurs through multiple actions spread across the municipality, in online informative sessions and in the local service spaces.
Through these, the Academy welcomes ideas from the population for new projects, and makes known the health resources available: equipment, partnerships and actions that take place all year long.
360º is an online platform that brings together all information about cultural and sporting events that take place in Cascais. Accessible via website or APP, it is possible to combine several filters in searches and find details about exhibitions, shows and sporting events by category or cultural equipment.
Cascais Digital Library allows the access to a series of documents of historical and cultural interest that would otherwise be unlikely to be known.
It promotes free access to the municipality's journey through History, via the preventive conservation of key documents, the digitization of works of recognized heritage value, and the digital availability of works published by the municipality.
In addition, the Digital Library is integrated in several national and European networks, including Europeana - European Digital Library, which increases the visibility of our collections abroad.
The History and Heritage platform provides access to the Municipal Historical Archive and the Digital Library and allows consultation of several historical archive records from different funds in which the Municipality of Cascais is the trustee (public and private). The online catalogue allows searches and checking the availability of documentation in the Cascais libraries.
The History and Heritage Platform is not only an extremely valuable repository, but also a very useful tool for those who want to discover the history of their county.
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The museums of Cascais can now be visited, even without leaving home. Virtual visits to places such as the Village Museum, Casa Sommer (Historical Archives), the Library for Children and Youth, or the Cascais Cultural Center are now accessible on the Bairro dos Museus website.
Besides navigating through several places of the facilities, the virtual visits allow the access to the descriptive content of each art piece and its proper contemplation.
Examples of the collection available for consultation are the exhibitions "Paula Rego: Desenhar, Encenar, Pintar", "Pintura Democrática - Coleção Luísa e Manuel Pedroso Lima" and the photography exhibition "Vivian Maier - street photographer".
The Cascais Social Network will be 20 years old in 2022. This is a network made up of institutions and social agents active in the municipality, whose continuous work promotes the fight against poverty and social exclusion, through integrated social development, and the pursuit of inclusion and social cohesion.
The members of the Network develop projects and initiatives that make up various complementary responses throughout the territory, and invest heavily in training and qualification of their organizations to improve the capacity and quality of response of services.
Currently, 119 organizations are part of the Social Network, which make up 25 partnership networks.
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