Care4Skills

Building on the large-scale skills partnership on long-term care, the Care4Skills creates a new strategic approach for skills development solutions in the long-term care sector through cross-European and both cross- and inter-sectoral collaboration, mobilising relevant stakeholders and developing actions for the upskilling and reskilling of the workforce in the LTC and in support of the achievement of the targets set by the partnership. Care4Skills brings together 6 European platforms, and national stakeholders from 10 countries (BE, BU, CZ, FI, FR, GR, HU, IT, NL, ES) representing both sector representatives (LTC providers and from both elderly care and disability support dimensions) and VET providers, as well as 2 HEI and 1 certification body united under the skills partnership. The project will look into two particular skill sets considered a priority for the sector: a) person-centred skills, in order to improve the quality of Long Term Care, b)Digital skills in order to make the most of the digital and, indeed, green transition in LTC, and target in particular four groups of workers.It will create a rapid response training programme for urgent skill needs and train 1500 frontline LTC workers in the first year of the project; it will also gather skill intelligence on the future skill needs and support for upskilling, as well as develop a standardised methodology for anticipating and monitoring skills needs. This will help to understand the emerging skills in LTC and identify emerging occupational profiles, which will be the base for the development of new modular VET curricula and training programmes at relevant EQF levels (3 to 5), piloted in the 10 participating countries. The project will further launch European and national certifications of the curricula and develop a European Strategy for Skills in LTC ensuring the continued take-up and progressive rollout of the project, in particular after the project ends.