Last Updated on November 25, 2013
On the 15th and 16th of December 2022, the partners of the project Genetic counseling in European universities: The case of neurodegenerative diseases (GECONEU) met in Heidelberg, Germany for the 2nd Transnational Project Meeting. Also, a Hybrid Symposium in the…
Nordic Carers Forum, a co-Nordic network, was founded on the 17th of March in Oslo by representatives of the Norwegian, Danish, Finnish and Swedish caregiver associations. Informal care associations of the Nordic countries are concerned about the future of caregiving,…
Please find here the information from the Commission about the Report by the High-Level Group on the future of social protection and of the welfare state in the EU, with a view to the EPSO Council meeting on March 13, 2023.…
Now available: a free online course for health and social care professionals working with older people and their informal carers developed by the Erasmus+ SINCALA project partnership under the coordination of the University of Tartu (Estonia). The goal of the course…
28 February 2023 from 9:00 - 10:30 CET The webinar is organised in the framework of “KEN” – an EU-funded project that has established a Korea-EU SCO network. The objective of the webinar is to bring together European and Korean…
On 7 February 2023 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released a report titled “Time for better care at the end of life”. The report shows that with more chronic conditions and an ageing population, a growing share…
Today, ahead of World Cancer Day on 4 February, the Commission and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) present the first Country Cancer Profiles under the European Cancer Inequalities Registry for all EU Member States, Norway and Iceland. The Profiles show…
Last 24th January, Family Carers Ireland (Clare Duffy) and Eurocarers (Claire Champeix) presented their perspectives on the gender dimension of care, at the invitation of the Irish Department of Health on the occasion of an internal webinar. This session was…
Pro Aidants becomes Swiss Carers - a name change that is more than just a new name. In recent years, the association has specialised in supporting family carers in Switzerland. Together with partners, the advocacy organization has successfully improved the…
On January 20th, Joana Vicenté, a doctoral student within the Informal Carers, Care and Caring Group, headed up by Professor Elizabeth Hanson at Linnaeus University in Sweden, successfully defended her thesis entitled “Combining informal care with paid work – An…