Baden Württemberg State Competence Center for Care & Digitization / PflegeDigital@BW

Care connects people. Technology can and should serve this connection. In order to ensure that technical progress can also lead to social progress, however, we need to qualify and educate people that are involved in care. PflegeDigital@BW works on this need.
Initiated and funded by the Baden Württemberg Ministry of Social Affairs, the center develops, analyzes and communicates care-friendly digital solutions together with partners from science and society, business and practice. PflegeDigital@BW is linked to the LebensPhasenHaus in Tübingen and is run by the the the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Social and Technological Innovation.
As a central point of contact for consulting, training, and education services, PflegeDigital@BW also acts as a networking node beyond the state of Baden Württemberg. In this way, interested parties and relatives of people with care needs, as well as professional caregivers, are to be given the opportunity to test various applications in real life and gain an impression of them. In this way, all those involved will learn from each other so that digitally supported services are useful and manageable for people with care needs and caregivers alike. In addition to that, innovations are developed in a co-creative and participatory way.
Informal and formal care givers, patients and citizens, (Longterm) Care Organisations, Social Entrepreneurs and SMEs, academia, administration and policy makers, craftsmen and healthcare insurers.