Equality Care Should be Shared and Fair This European Carers Day, Eurocarers and its members are calling on all European governments to tackle gender equality in caregiving, shine a light on the role of informal carers and highlight the…
07/09/2022 Eurocarers’ Press Release regarding the EU Care Strategy Eurocarers warmly welcomes the EC call to identify and better support informal carers in its newly-adopted EU Care Strategy, and urges for a swift and full implementation across the EU The…
DoCUp is a 28-months Erasmus Plus project that aims to equip domestic care workers with a mix of social care, transversal, and attitudinal skills to ensure resilient employment pathways able to respond to challenges such as those raised by the…
Eurocarers warmly welcomes the adoption of key conclusions on Long-Term Care (LTC) by EU ministers for employment, social affairs and health. These conclusions clearly recognise the vital contribution of informal carers to LTC provision as well as their need for…
International experts from Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, and Sweden are uniting to develop new treatment and care pathways for elderly patients with multiple chronic diseases. Funded by the EU Horizon 2020 program, ESCAPE is a €6.1 million, 4.5-year…
Registrations are still open for the 3rd International Young Carers Conference, which will take place online from 3rd to 6th May. Are you committed to enable all children to fully enjoy their human rights? Young carers - children and young…
The 3rd International Young Carers Conference – jointly organised by Eurocarers, Linnaeus University and Nka (The Swedish Family Care Competence Centre) - will take place online, from the 3rd to the 6th May 2021. Young carers are children and young…
The European Parliament Informal Carers Interest Group, coordinated by Eurocarers, held a meeting on 23 February. This event, entitled, ‘Towards an ambitious EU initiative on long term care’, brought together MEPs and other policy makers as well as leading stakeholders…
PRESS RELEASE Brussels, 24nd February 2021 In a meeting of the European Parliament Informal Carers Interest Group held on 23 February, MEPs and other policy makers as well as leading stakeholders agreed on the urgent need for an ambitious and…
PRESS RELEASE Brussels, 22nd February 2021 Eurocarers urges EU policy makers to include informal carers in the priority groups for their vaccination campaigns. Informal carers are the main providers of long-term care in Europe today[1] and a majority of them…
