TechSocialcare

The aging population, increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, and changing societal dynamics have led to a growing demand for social and health care services. According to Eurostat, the proportion of people aged 65 and over in the European Union is projected to rise from 21% in a year 2023 to 28% in a year 2050, highlighting the need for optimized social-health care services in institution or natural home to meet this increasing demand.

The innovative technical tools have a demonstrable ambition to create effective care and thereby ensure quality care for a greater number of clients with the same workload for workers in services. The EU Care Strategy, published by the European Commission, states that Europe will need 1.6 million additional workers by 2050. A number of independent tools are being developed, but they are not standardised, making interoperability complex and expensive and usage minimal.
 

Project objectives:

1. Engage national governments, municipalities and representatives of progressive social service providers to establish a legal framework.

2. Develop basic functional requirements and standards like ergonomics, open communication, usability, etc. for the ICT tools and Assistive technology in social-health care services.

3. Promote these standards in parallel at the European level and individual national levels

4. Enable international exchange of experience and good practice.

Project partners:

• Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ) - lead partner

• Moravian Silesian Region (CZ)

• NSRF Ministry of Health (GR)

• Malopolska region (PL)

• Napoca Porolissum (RO)

• Vidzeme planning region (LV)

• Riga Technical University (LV)

• Municipality of Agnone (IT)

• Industrial Systems Institute/ Athena RC (GR)

• ASA Institute (BA)

• Atlantic Technological University (IR)

• Ministry of Health (BA)

The partners contribute 7 policies and plans from 8 different EU countries, aiming to analyse and enhance their social-health care sectors for greater efficiency and quality.