The newly released Report “Social Economy in Europe: Contributing to Competitiveness and Prosperity”, as a joint effort of the OECD and the European Commission, offers important insights into the role of Social economy in many economic and social domains, including social services of general interest.
On November 28th, 2025, the Global Observatory on Long-Term Care (GOLTC) organised the webinar tackling some of the most persistent myths that continue to hold back progress in LTC.
The LeTs-Care Policy Lab officially launches on September 25th in Brussels, with remote participation available. This dialogue-based initiative is intended to support the advancement of research and policy-making in the field of long-term care.
From 1 to 3 September, the Menéndez Pelayo International University hosted the UIMP-IMSERSO Summer Course, bringing together experts to reflect on the future of LTC. As part of the programme, three researchers from the LeTs-Care project – Barbara Da Roit (University of Venice), Roberta Perna (CSIC), and Alexandra Lopes (University of Porto) – took part in a roundtable dedicated to presenting the project’s findings.
The LeTs-Care project will host its first Policy Lab, next September 25th, 2025 in Brussels. The event will focus on one of the most urgent concerns in Long-Term Care: the resilience and sustainability of the care workforce.
At the International Public Policy Association Conference, ICPP7, held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, from June 1 to 4, 2025, Prof. Poškutė (ISM University of Management and Economics) presented the paper “Meeting Long-term Care Needs of Older Adults in Ageing Societies: case of Lithuania.”
From 2nd to 4th June, 2025, the LeTs-Care Consortium gathered in Innsbruck for a productive coordination meeting that marked a significant step in the project’s engagement with the broader sector and key stakeholders.
The first Spanish LeTs-Care workshop was held on May 22nd at the Espacio Converge in Madrid. The agenda focused on care needs, quality of care, and care work. Collaborative dialogue was fostered on the contextual challenges of community care in Spain,
A collaboration protocol in the sector of long-term care has been established between the Santa Casa da Misericórdia do Porto (SCMP) and the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto (FLUP), in a joint effort to deepen knowledge and share best practices in the field of aging.
The first Austrian LeTs-Care workshop was held on May 16th 2025 at the University of Innsbruck. The agenda focused on introducing the project and its research objectives, as well as the initial findings.
LeTs-Care is part of a cluster of projects supported by the European Union under the Horizon Europe program, which focus on innovation in practices and policies in the LTC sector.
The LeTs-Care research team at UIBK participated in the 7th ESPAnet Austria Research Conference, organised at the University of Innsbruck on 24-25 April 2025.
Two recent papers by Prof Bernhard Weicht and Dr Lisa Waldenburger (UIBK), illustrate the intellectual breadth and critical engagement that characterise the LeTs-Care agenda.
From 10–12 February 2025, the LeTs-Care Consortium gathered in Porto for a meeting hosted by the University of Porto. Building on earlier discussions, the group continued to refine shared understandings of key care-related concepts, such as needs, care, and sustainability.
A specific focus of the meeting was the project’s ethnographic research.
What does LTC have to do with climate change? In her speech “Vieillissement et changement climatique. Le système de soin à l’épreuve” (1st session “Crise climatique, changements globaux et territores”), Prof. Da Roit applied the LeTs-Care approach, based on contextualization of practice and policy development, to the joint challenges of aging and climate change.
The Workshop on Inequalities and Disabilities organised by the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission on 19 November 2024 will bring together ongoing and past projects to showcase their results and support their uptake by policymakers and practitioners.
At the consortium meeting, hosted on 8-10 October 2024 by Roskilde University, the LeTs-Care team began shaping one of the project’s core research strands by reflecting on the ‘meanings’ of key care-related concepts.
In an interview for VITA magazine, Prof. Da Roit, Principal Investigator in the LeTs-Care project, traces the origins of the Italian system of care for the non-self-sufficient.
The LeTs-Care project has officially started with a successful kick-off meeting held in Venice, Italy, on April 3rd and 4th, 2024.