CARE4YOU PROJECT

The CARE4YOU PROJECT - Improving soft skills of seniors' caregivers is a strategic partnership for higher education funded with the support from the European Commission (project no: 2021-2-PL01-KA220-YOU-000048989), from April of 2022 to November 2023

Wyzsza Szkola Przedsiebiorczosci i Administracji w Lublinie University is the project Leader of this partnership with "Fundacja EOS", both from Poland and the other institutions: the Consorzio Materahub Industrie Culturali e Creative from Italy, the Mednarodna Fakulteta za Družbene in poslovne študije from Slovenia, and Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal from Portugal, with the ESS team – Professor Teresa Mimoso (coordinator) and professors Andreia Cerqueira, Célia Soares and Sónia Lima.

The main goal of the project is to increase the knowledge and skills necessary to the profession of senior’s caregiver as well as to increase the interest of young people in this profession, by developing several training and information materials targeted at young people in various EU countries. Alongside, we want to:

  • a) Provide young people who want to work as a caregiver for seniors or who work in this profession with tools that enable them to improve skills useful at work as a carer for seniors;
  • b) increase the efficiency and attractiveness of educating senior’s caregivers by indicating good practices in the field of education and training of senior’s caregivers;
  • c)  increase the awareness of young people about the education path and formal requirements regarding work for a caregiver of seniors in various EU countries.

As part of the project activities, it is planned to develop 3 main intellectual outputs:

  1. Intellectual Output 1– a publication/report containing information about what soft skills the senior’s caregiver should have and several examples of good practices in the use of non-standard tools for the development of soft skills among people participating in courses preparing for the profession of senior’s caregivers.
  2. Intellectual Output 2 - a set of training materials supporting the development of soft skills of people who want to work or work as carers of the elderly. The materials will consist of a series of thematic webinars on individual competences, as well as tests to check the knowledge of people participating in webinars (in the form of pre-tests and post-tests, both to be done by individual people, and to be carried out by training institution).
  3. Intellectual Output 3 -  a set of materials containing information on the path of education of senior’s caregivers in various EU countries, as well as a list of formal requirements in individual EU countries that should be met by people who want to work in this field.

Apart from the quantifiable results, we hope that the project will also contribute to:

  • Change attitudes both training institutions offering training for seniors’ caregivers as well as seniors’ caregivers themselves about importance of having high level of soft skills while working with seniors
  • increase professionalism in the performance of professional duties by caregivers of seniors thanks to the possibility of improving their soft skills
  • increase the professional mobility of caregivers of seniors by gaining access to information on the formal requirements and working conditions of a caregiver of seniors in various EU countries
  • increase the standards of care for seniors thanks to the greater soft skills of the caregivers
  • make the training offer for senior’s caregivers more attractive by adding elements of development regrading soft skills.