Long-term Long-term care (LTC) services are intended for people who depend on help with daily living activities and who may also need permanent nursing care. Disability increases as we get older, but can be found in all age groups. The LAUREL project aims at gathering valuable insights into regional differences of integrated long-term care (I-LTC) provision and their support solutions in Europe. Using this intelligence, it will develop actionable policies to respond to the challenges of growing demand, economic constraints, accessibility, affordability, quality of services, shortages of members of the workforce, and systemic reforms. LAUREL will identify a set of the best innovative, integrated care solutions leading to better quality, person-centred LTC and overcoming territorial and gender inequalities in their provision. The project has the following six sub-objectives: 1) Develop a set of methods and tools for mapping and characterising I-LTC services in the EU27, covering: availability and accessibility, affordability, reliability, quality, workforce, funding, governance, autonomy and empowerment, and supporting technologies; and transversally incorporating the gender perspective and regional differences (rural/urban gap). 2) Undertake a field study in EU-27 to identify the most successful innovative practices. 3) Analyse the features of identified I-LTC services and context-dependent factors that provide insights into policies for the adoption/development of the best innovative practices, including supporting technologies. 4) Use this analysis to carry out qualitative research in the EU27 to generate a consensus on actionable policies favouring a shift to I-LTC, by investigating the change management strategies that favour policy adoption 5) Produce a white paper on I-LTC that gathers together all the findings of the project and the consensually agreed actionable policies. 6) Develop a set of training courses and tools to maximise the impact of the results.

The BASE project will work to strengthen the capacities of the social economy and its human capital in key areas such as the digital and green transitions in which social economy enterprises and organisations already have an important added value. FThe BASE project aims at analysing skills gaps and skills mismatches, so that the employees and employers build greater resilience to unexpected challenges. It 's going to develop a set of emerging occupational profiles and design competence- based curricula for traditional, soft and new skills. Those curricula will be further tailored to the national/regional contexts, to make sure that the learning outcomes match their demand. Further, the project includes testing of the training programmes, delivered as modular, flexible and accessible learning opportunities, taking under consideration previously acquired skills.BASE project`s approach is focused on maximising the impact and sustainability through:- encompassing in SocioComp transversal skills: digital, green skills and collaboration- achieving impact and scaling by properly coordinating the impact of the project on different levels- highlighting the power of alliances between sectors through the model that BASE project will propose and work with- ensuring interconnectivity at the EU level and sharing common definitions, knowledge and practices BASE project strivies to change the perspective, stereotype and understanding of the public for a career in the social economy sector, emphasising on its potential, future prospects and capacity for growth and self-fulfilment using innovative methodologies and technologies.

WISESHIFT aims to provide evidence-based and theoretically sound rationales, actionable strategies, and multi-level policy architecture to Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs), national federations, European networks, and policymakers. The goal is to enable them to become dynamic agents of inclusive and sustainable transitions within their respective ecosystems. To achieve this, WISESHIFT will develop a scientific conceptualization at the crossroads of social economy studies, sustainable transition studies, and multi-level governance policy analysis. The project will start with a comprehensive analysis of the landscape of WISEs and their implementation of work integration pathways for vulnerable workers across the 27 EU Member States and Serbia. Next, WISESHIFT will conduct an in-depth analysis of 24 WISEs and their contributions to inclusive and sustainable transitions within their respective ecosystems, focusing on three domains: repair, reuse, and recycling; agrifood; and community/home care for the elderly. The third objective of WISESHIFT is to perform a comprehensive cross-cutting analysis using the Multi-Level Perspective to identify the organizational factors specific to WISEs that make them potentially "inclusive and sustainable by design." The fourth objective is to develop a comparative and multi-level framework of analysis to address challenges posed by policies and regulations to the WISEs and, through their lenses, to the social economy. Overall, the ambition of WISESHIFT – is to contribute to strengthening the tangible role of social economy organisations as catalysts for transformative and systemic change towards more inclusive and sustainable practices within their ecosystems as envisioned by the EU social economy strategy.

INSPIRE project supports sustainable and inclusive development of European rural areas by promoting social wellbeing and inclusion of rural dwellers and vulnerable groups. In particular, the project contributes to advancing in a multi-dimensional way the concept of social inclusion in rural areas, and supports the access to high-quality social services by rural citizens through a series of awareness-raising, capacity-building, and pilot deployment activities that focus on social entrepreneurship in a set of 7 different pilot territories (e.g., coastal, rural, peri-urban, mountainous). To realise its objectives, the project provides a novel territorial typology of rural areas, sets up and operationalises "Smart Village labs", and enhances governance frameworks and informed policy making through E-Democracy and user-innovation techniques, to eventually deliver a dedicated Rural Social Inclusion Policy Dashboard.