Are you ever tempted to consider leaving your current job? Today we want to give support in your work-life balance decision making. Reconciling life priorities with work can be difficult, especially when you have to take care of a…
Women providing daily unpaid informal care are more than 30% less likely to be employed. This is what a SHARE-based study using data of more than 27.000 people across 15 European countries has shown. Considering the ageing population…
Please have a look at our brand new project brochure! Get more information on the project and feel free to use it to spread the news on our project! Download the English project brochure or check the download section for…
The transnational research report of the Care4Carers project has been completed! Read some of the key insights below: It is estimated that informal carers provide over 80% of all long-term care in Europe, with an especially heavy burden falling…
Earlier this month the European Commission presented the European Care Strategy to ensure quality, affordable and accessible care services across the European Union and improve the situation for both care receivers and the people caring for them, professionally or…
A new study from Ireland pours more light onto the strategies family career use to reconcile their professional and caring responsibilities. Despite the value placed on work by family carers, if it comes to choosing between the roles of…
What if we considered informal care as a work experience that provides many opportunities to acquire job relevant skills and transfer them to the future job? This article published on Forbes focuses on key skills that informal carers are…
Informal carers who have to combine caregiving with paid work often face income losses or have to leave the labour market entirely. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the situation worsened and informal carers were even more at risk of poverty…
Around 3.4 million people in Germany are in need of care. Three quarters of them are cared for at home, 1.76 million of them usually by their relatives alone. Calculations currently assume that there are around 4.8 million…
Volunteering is an important means for (young) people to develop themselves, by building new relationships and gaining a whole set of life skills that can improve their employability. It serves to gather important experience in unknown fields, to develop social,…