Learning from Long-Term Care practices for the European Care Strategy (LeTs-Care)

Project no.: 101132701

Project funding: EU Research and Innovation Funding Programme “Horizon Europe”

Project description:

European societies find themselves in a window of opportunity for the advancement of LTC policies and practices. The pandemic has made clear that there is a need for accessible, affordable and quality services, more equality, protection and inclusion for people in need of care, informal caregivers and care workers, and sustainability. To meet these goals, policy makers, stakeholders and researchers need to comprehend the challenges ahead, the patterns and drivers of inequalities in LTC, the potential contribution of emerging practices and the development of contextualised sustainable practices. The project will conduct 18 ethnographic studies or care practices aimed at improving the wellbeing of care receivers, of care workers and of informal caregivers: ethnographic case studies will comprehend the tensions, trade-offs and choices that underpin these practices and will develop context-sensitive policy recommendations.  Finally, LeT’s-Care will move beyond “best practices” by developing a new, reflexive approach to policy learning and a concrete toolkit.

Principal investigator: Virginija Poškutė

Project duration: 2024 04 01 – 2027 09 30

Project coordinator: UNIVERSITA CA’ FOSCARI VENEZIA (UNIVE)

Project partners: ISM University of Management and Economics (ISM), ROSKILDE UNIVERSITET (RUC), UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM (UvA), AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS (CSIC), UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO (U.PORTO), UNIVERSITAET INNSBRUCK (UIBK), RESEAU EUROPEEN DES VILLES ET REGIONS DE L’ECONOMIE SOCIALE AISBL (REVES), CGM CONSORZIO NAZIONALE DELLA COOPERAZIONE SOCIALE GINO MATTARELLI – SOCIETA’ COOPERATIVA SOCIALE (CONSORZIO CGM), FONDAZIONE TERZJUS – OSSERVATORIO DI DIRITTO DEL TERZO SETTORE DELLA FILANTROPIA E DELL’IMPRESA SOCIALE (FON TERZJUS), Lithuanian nurses’ organization (LSSO), Asociacija “Demencija Lietuvoje” (ADL), Portincarers – Associação Cuidadores de Portugal (Portincarers), SANTA CASA DA MISERICORDIA DE LISBOA (SCML), Alzheimer Nederland, Stichting Omring, Asociación Cicerón (Ass Cicerón), Fundación Pilares para la Autonomía Personal (FPAP), INSTITUTO DE MAYORES Y SERVICIOS SOCIALES (IMSERSO), FOA