Second Eldicare 2.0 partners meeting in Vienna

On the 5th and 6th of June the Eurocarers team attended the annual meeting of the Eldicare 2.0 consortium in Vienna – the second in-person meeting since the project kick-off in Athens in July 2023. The event provided an occasion for the consortium to come together and take stock of the progress made so far, as the second yar of the project comes to completion. It was hosted by Eldicare’s Austrian partner ÖJAB, a non-profit organisation that provides students and other young people with a home near their places of education, offers inpatient and mobile care, and pursues projects in the fields of education, integration, refugee relief, and development cooperation.

During the two-day meeting, partners also took a look at the workplan for the upcoming months, focusing in particular on the ongoing efforts to analyse the existing occupational profiles for the elderly care sector – both at EU level and in the 6 pilot countries. This will allow to identify gaps and opportunities for further developing the occupational profiles, and to propose a revised version of these tools that will better align with the current and future needs of the sector. The comparative analysis will also be based on the results of the ‘Blueprint Report on the future of elderly care’, that the consortium finalised at the end of 2024.

Further down the line, the new profiles will be used as guidance to design, test and deliver competence-based training curricula for the reskilling and upskilling of elderly care – which will be piloted in 6 EU countries.

To conclude the productive gathering, partners visited a local nursing home in Vienna run by ÖJAB, gaining a deeper understanding on how service provision works in Austria. ÖJAB’s offerings for the older adults include assisted living, home care services and a nursing school.