VET CARE - Building Capacity and VET for Migrants Care Workers in Europe
Aim
VET CARE aims to provide practical and useful answers regarding qualifications for the labour market, in the segment of long-term care services, contributing for integration and social inclusion of migrants. Migrants are one of the major workforces in this area. VET CARE aims as well to transfer knowledge from different levels of stakeholders, contributing for implementing a logic of national/transnational cooperation and partnership in the sector.
Specific aims
- Identifying good practices developed at European level regarding formal and informal training on long-term care services;
- Contributing for a better knowledge and understanding of the migrant care workers landscape and training/qualification needs;
- Contributing to capacity building and upskilling of migrant care workers, within a logic of integration and social inclusion of vulnerable populations;
- Fostering cooperation among stakeholders from the care services sector that will allow to create suitable care work pools answering the needs of the labour market at European level.
Partnership
Promoter:
CECOA - Centro de Formação Profissional para o Comércio e Afins (Portugal)
Website: www.cecoa.pt
Contact: Xénia de Carvalho, Cristina Dimas
Partners:
Associazione FORMA.Azione SRL (Italy)
Website: www.azione.com
Contact: Sylvia Liuti, Chiara Marchetta
IDEC - AINTEK SYMVOULOI EPICHEIRISEON EFARMOGES YPSILIS TECHNOLOGIAS EKPAIDEFSI ANONYMI ETAIREIA (Greece)
Website: http://www.idec.gr
Contact: Eleni Fazaki, Maria Kandila
Fundacion Ronsel (Spain)
Website: www.fundacionronsel.org
Contact: Luis García Deber
Strategic Partners:
CICS.NOVA - Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Portugal)
Website: https://www.cics.nova.fcsh.unl.pt
Contacto: Nuno Dias
Observatório das Migrações (OM) - Portugal
Website: https://www.om.acm.gov.pt/
Contacto: Catarina Reis Oliveira
Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa (SCML) - Portugal
Website: https://scml.pt/
Contacto: Alexandra Castro
Instituto S. João de Deus, Casa de Saúde do Telhal - Portugal
Website: https://www.isjd.pt/pt/centros-assistenciais/cst-telhal
Contacto: Márcia Fonseca
Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa (Portugal)
Website: https://www.cruzvermelha.pt/
Contacto: Susana Gouveia
Cuidadores Portugal (Portugal)
Website: http://www.cuidadoresportugal.pt/p/quemsomos.html
Contacto: José Bruno Alves
Cooperativa Sociale Il Cerchio (Italy)
Website: https://www.ilcerchio.ra.it/
Contacto: Serenella Banconi
Fondazione Sodalizio San Martino (Italy)
Website: https://sodaliziosanmartino.it/
Contacto: Alfredo Branciforti
Club for Unesco of Piraeus & Islands (Greece)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/UnescoPireas/about
Contacto: Ioannis Maronitis
Fundación Youth Business Spain (Spain)
Website: https://www.youthbusiness.es/fundacion-ybs/
Contacto: Sara Simón Penas
ATA Galicia (Spain)
Website: https://ata.es/
Contacto: Rafael Granados
ERLAC - Fundación E.U. de Relaciones Laborales de A Coruña (Spain)
Website: https://www.erlac.es/
Contacto: María García Trincado
EAPN Galicia. European Anti-Poverty Network in Galicia (Spain)
Website: https://eapn-galicia.com/
Contacto: Eloína Ingerto López
Results/Outputs
- Good practices developed at European level regarding formal and informal training on long-term care services
- E-learning course/materials to answer sector current demands
- Training toolkit on long-term care work
- Good practices developed at European level regarding local, regional and/or national formal and informal pools of care workers
- Pilot-pool model proposal for care workers in Europe
- The VET CARE Seminars (2023-2025)
Duration
December 2023 - November 2025
Framework
Erasmus + Programme
Key Action 2: Cooperation partnerships in vocational education and training
For more information see each partner website and download the project card:
CECOA - www.cecoa.pt
FORMA.AZIONE - www.azione.com
IDEC - www.idec.gr
FUNDACIÓN RONSEL - www.fundacionronsel.org
