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PROJECT DETAILS

Key Action

KA2

Field

Partnerships for sectoral competences

Reference

2018-2453/001-001

Project duration

24 months

Start date

01/11/2018

End date

31/10/2020

Web

http://eldicare.eu/

Coordinating Institution

AKMI ANONIMI EKPAIDEFTIKI ETAIRIA, Greece

Partner Institutions


Universidad de Málaga, Spain

ASISTTEL Servicios Asistenciales, Spain

IHF, Belgium

EAH, Belgium

Staffordshire University, United Kingdom

Kentro Merimnas Oikogeneias Kai Paidiou, Greece

ACQUIN, Germany

Skybridge Partners Outsourcing Services I.K.E., Greece

AKMI Metropolitan College, Greece

BQS GmbH Döbern, Germany

Age Concern Birmingham Ltd, United Kingdom

Project description

Europe is ageing: by 2080, one third of the population will be over 65, which means a growing need for skilled carers, both to support their own elderly relatives and to provide a professional workforce for this demand in the private sector.

The Eldicare project is a "Knowledge Alliance" funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ programme. It brings together 12 partners from 5 countries to identify the care needs of older people in the future and to facilitate the development of the skills their carers will need, using innovative approaches to empower them through the use of ICT and e-learning based on online educational resources.

Eldicare has a two-year duration and ends in October 2020. The project will analyse, through a multi-methodological approach including literature review, expert interviews, user questionnaires and focus groups, how informal social care is provided to older people across Europe, as well as the nature of the workforce and their actual training needs in this field, in order to explore how a distance training programme can be offered, which could provide a recognised accreditation for carers that would operate as a skills passport to work in different countries.

Coordinating Professor UMA

Ana Mª Castillo (amcc@uma.es)