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…
A recent study on the effects of the take-up of informal care on working hours and workplace absentism that was conducted in the Netherlands shows clearly negative labour market consequences for female carers. Women have reduced their work…
A survey was carried out to identify the most pressing challenges in the kindergarten system (Dr. Kemper, Thomas; Colbasevici, Liubovi; Espenhorst, Niels. Kita-Bericht 2022 des Paritätischen Gesamtverbandes. Der Paritätische Gesamtverband. Berlin. Juni 2022). In most municipalities, a clear lack of…
The partnership of Care4Carers is making an effort to stay up to date with research, literature and articles regarding supporting measures related to the work of family carers. Their work is both physically and mentally demanding and often…
The everGREEN team conducted a research with the aim of mapping current European trends in greening the VET sector. The research report is based on the information collected by project partners in their national contexts in Belgium, France, Germany, Greece,…
The project partners have completed the research phase. With the research they wanted to explore the situation in Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, Cyprus and Greece in terms of what is being done in these countries to improve the general state…
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…
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…
In the first months of the project, the partners will look at the framework conditions of the circular economy in their respective countries, research examples of good practice in this field and will conduct interviews with young entrepreneurs who have…
The consortium is currently conducting research activities in each partner country. The aim is to explore the extent to which ecotherapy is part of the training programmes for trainers and educators. Each partner will collect existing initiatives and training programmes…
Among 29 attributes that leaders identified in peer organizations that they regarded as particularly effective, leaders stressed: instantiation of sound principles or strategy a grass-roots approach, large organisational size and resources, being collaborative, singleness of focus, campaigning abilities, funding and…
In the past month the partners carried out comprehensive research activities aimed to analyse the degree to which C-VET suppliers, trainers and educators are applying digital technologies in their teaching and learning strategies in the partner countries of Austria, Bulgaria,…
During the past months, the consortium undertook comprehensive research activities – both desk and field research – and explored the effects of COVID-19 pandemic for youth living with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other mental or development disorders. For the…
You don’t have the time or motivation to read our entire research report? No problem! We prepared a short and concise summary of the most important results which is available in 4 languages. English executive summary Bulgarian executive summary German…
The Climate Box consortium has recently launched “Climate Education for Disadvantaged Adults” report, the 1st intellectual output of the Climate Box project. The report is a result of substantial desk research in all participating countries formed from two elements: the…