Background
The
innovative aspect of this network stands in the approach to the process,
in which educational providers, labour market actors, health and care services
both public and private, NGO´s and civil society are foreseen to interact
and develop actions fostering closer ties between education and labour market.
We hope to create permanent means of collaboration that are aimed at finding coherent and cost efficient ways of covering the future needs of the sector.
How can the employers, both public and private in the field of health and care services and the education providers in this field collaborate in order to meet future demands on skills in the field of health and care services?
The background of that discussion is the demographic changes in Europe, with accelerating rates of elderly people that require greater societal involvement in services for health and care and the expected gap between the services provided and the future needs of elderly and their relatives. The development and changes in the diagnosis for handicap and disability makes it necessary to create new methods in services to the people entitled to support. Also the handicapped require more societal involvement in services for health and care. This changes require new skills and training for the persons working in the field.