From November 14th to 18th, 2022, as part of the Erasmus+ KA1 project “Empowering adult educators who support family carers”, members of our association’s board of directors and adult educators visited the European Federation Eurocarers, the Belgian Brain Council organization,…
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…
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…
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…
Discover all the resources developed under the framework of the Hi-Ability Erasmus+ project! Hi-Ability adopts an original methodological approach, where the therapeutic-rehabilitation programme focuses on the socio-educational value of the natural environment. The general objective of the project is to…
World Children’s Day, held on 20th November 2022, marks also Austria’s 2nd National Action Day for Caring Children and Adolescents. As the Interest Group for Informal Carers in Austria, we have raised our voice this year by handing out 50.000…
Call to our French speaking members. The organisation Entr'Ages, Belgian (French speaking) member of our partner AGE platform is organising next April 2023 an "Intergenerational Week". Given the intergenerational dimension of informal care (for instance, taking care of a parent/grandparent…
Great tool and food for thoughts, our Swiss colleagues from Pro Aidants have recently published an online tools to support carers of the canton of Grisons calculate. This free and anonymous calculator will help them see what benefits they might be…
