Last Updated on November 25, 2013
On the 17th of November, the European Commission published an implementation roadmap and progress indicators for Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan to monitor developments on the ten flagship initiatives as well as its other actions. The roadmap will undergo regular review…
Our colleagues from COMIP, an Italian association helping children of mentally ill parents, under the leadership of Stefania Buoni, member of the Eurocarers Young Carers Working group, organised a screening of the movie King of Atlantis in order to raise…
The AppForDem project aimed to create a set of open and multilingual educational resources on dementia, with the purpose of offering digital resources that support formal and informal carers in caring for people with dementia. According to the training curriculum…
The Swedish Family Care Competence Centre (Nationellt kompetenscentrum anhöriga, Nka), has for a number of years worked with Blended Learning Networks. A Blended Learning Network is a heterogenous community of practice – a method where people with a common interest…
A new report published by EPSU (European Federation of Public Service Unions) shows that, as the pandemic was at its peak, hundreds of thousands of care workers were abandoning the sector of long-term residential care . While COVID was hitting…
Eurocarers was invited as expert at the European Parliament to discuss the European Care Strategy proposed by President von der Leyen in her State of the European Union speech. Stecy Yghemonos, Executive Director of Eurocarers, had the wonderful opportunity to…
New research project on young carers in schools, being conducted by Professor Saul Becker at the University of Cambridge, UK, seeks a postdoctoral Research Associate (3 years, full-time) This new 3-year study, on young carers’ educational assessments and outcomes, will…
The Integrated Care Foundation is excited to start their second cohort of students in their Online Certificate in Integrated Care on 1 November. You will find below some information relating to the course including requirements and registration details. You may…
An international online patient community, Carenity, conducted a patient study in two independent waves among adults affected by non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Europe and in the United States of America (USA). Eurocarers was invited to contribute to the discussion of…
Carers Finland celebrated its 30th anniversary by organizing the second Carers Parliament on European Carers Day on October 6th. Over 300 people, carers, care recipients, volunteers, professionals, researchers and policymakers, attended the online Parliament. In a panel discussion hosted by…