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Research Project Let's care

Project Duration: 04/01/2024 - 10/01/2027

Objective 1: To offer a new, in-depth, and reflective understanding of LTC challenges across national and local contexts for stakeholders and policymakers. Four common challenges��care affordability and accessibility, quality of care, quality of care work, and financial sustainability��affect European LTC systems (EC 2021b). However, there is currently a lack of systematic and comprehensive knowledge about how these challenges manifest in different national and local contexts.

Objective 2: To provide a novel understanding of ��integrative�� and ��innovative�� practices and their potential to address the challenges of care accessibility and quality, care work quality, and sustainability.

Objective 3: To pioneer a novel policy-learning framework. After delineating the diverse LTC challenges across national and regional contexts and scrutinising the underlying tensions and choices in integrative and innovative practices, LeTs-Care will tackle the pivotal aspect of policy learning. This initiative transcends the conventional ��best practice�� approach, aiming for a ��meaningful practice�� paradigm shift. This shift aligns with the objectives of the EU Care Strategy, contributing to its realisation.

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Funding

The LeTs-Care project is a comparative research project funded under the Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society area of Horizon Europe. It was launched on 1 April 2024 and aims to identify and investigate effective and reproducible solutions in the field of long-term care.

The project has a total grant from Horizon Europe of 2.9 million �, of which Roskilde University's share is 400,000 �.

Contact
Bent Greve, professor, Roskilde University, bgr@ruc.dk

Researchers
Roskilde University:
Bent Greve
Sofie Nebel H?jberg
Universit�� Ca�� Foscari Venezia:
Barbara Da Roit (projektleder)
Pamela Pasian
Giulia Storato
University of Amsterdam:
Jeanette Pols
Kristine Krause
Sabya van Elswijk
Si?nna Hernandez
The Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient��ficas, CSIC):
Roberta Perna
Jorge Jose Hern��ndez Moreno
University of Management and Economics �C ISM:
Virginija Po?kut?
R��ta Kazlauskait?
University of Porto:
Alexandra Lopes
Rute Lemos
University of Innsbruck:
Bernhard Weicht
Lisa Waldenburger
Several workshops have been organised in 2025 with participants from a wide range of stakeholders and more will be organised again in 2026.
For further information and updates on the project, you can sign up to a mailing list: mailto:sympa@sympa.ruc.dk?subject=subscribe%20letscaredenmark
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See more of the project's activities on Roskilde University Research Portal

In October 2024, the project group gathered at RUC, where all countries in the project were represented.