As a consequence of an ageing population, the rising costs for (care) services and recent budget cuts, countries around the North Sea move from a care system whereby the state regulates, cares and pays to one that facilitates a civil society that is based on solidarity and community. Looking for new strategies, decision makers have directed attention to informal care and voluntary assistance.
In For Care aims to develop innovation in service delivery by optimizing informal and formal networks to address these challenges.
It will explore new cooperative ways in which the market, the public and the civil sector will provide answers to the social demands and strengthen the informal networks through new technologies.
In For Care is a project co-funded by the North Sea Region Programme 2014 - 2020.
Download some of our key documents:
- Informal care and volunteering assistance in Europe; a comparison between countries in the North Sea
- The In For Care Manual for Service Design
- Report: The state of informal care and voluntary assistance in Europe
- The In For Care Quadruple Helix Guide for Innovations
- How to Recruit, Train and Keep volunteers and informal carers
- Checklist to policy change
Latest Project News
In For Care is part of Interreg celebration
11 June 2020Interreg is celebrating "30 years together", and In For Care is chosen as one of 30 projects to be highlighted.
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Family carers in Värmland
26 March 2020In Sweden, 75% of all care work is done by family carers. If this was priced in the same way as regular care, it would cost 177 billion SEK every year…
Read moreRead our paper on informal care and volunteering assistance in Europe
17 January 2020This paper presents an overview of informal care and volunteering assistance in countries in the North Sea region, whilst identifying bottlenecks and …
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In for Care-projects continues to give value in Denmark
18 December 2019Because of comprehensive cooperation with stakeholders, three projects continue to give value to informal caregivers in Denmark, when In for Care ends…
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Download our manual for service design
17 December 2019ZorgLab Aalst and Region Värmland have created a service design manual to introduce innovation in public service delivery.
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