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MOBILECARE

Project summary

The MobileCare project addresses the pressing need for improved social dialogue and intra-EU labour mobility, with a specific focus on the home-based care sector. The project acknowledges the growing significance of this sector and recognizes the challenges workers face in terms of mobility, working conditions, and national and EU-level social dialogue giving rise to various challenges for both workers and employers.

To address these challenges, the MobileCare project aims to identify good practices, challenges to social dialogue, capacity-building needs and areas for improvement for efficient social dialogue regarding intra-EU labour mobility in home-based care services; To facilitate and promote effective social dialogue at both the EU and national levels; To support the practical application of the European social dialogue and raise awareness about social dialogue, intra-EU labour mobility by diffusing the created knowledge, project results, outcomes, outputs.

To achieve its objectives, the Mobilecare Project engages in various activities, such as conducting research to generate data on social dialogue in the home-based care sector, organizing national and European social dialogue consultations and workshops, developing policy recommendations, and implementing conferences to promote project outputs. The project's focus on facilitating EU-level social dialogue is a key component of its strategy. The project aims to influence the development and implementation of policies at the European level by actively engaging with EU-level social dialogue committees and involving stakeholders in policy discussions.

The Mobilecare Project aligns with the thematic priorities of the call. The project will be implemented over the course of 24 months at the EU level, in six EU MSs (Poland, Italy, Germany, Malta, Spain, Lithuania) and Candidate country (Serbia).

Participants

 

  • FPP - FEDERACJA PRZEDSIEBIORCOW POLSKICH - PL
  • EFSI - EUROPEAN FEDERATION FOR SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS - BE
  • UNI EUROPA - UNI-EUROPA ASSOCIATION - BE
  • DOMINA - ASSOCIAZIONE DOMINA - IT
  • VHBP - BUNDESVERBAND FUR HAUSLICHE BETREUUNG UND PFLEGE EV - DE
  • ELMI - EUROPEJSKI INSTYTUT MOBILNOSCI PRACY - PL
  • GWU - GENERAL WORKERS UNION TRADE UNION - MT
  • CSIT-UP - COALICION SINDICAL INDEPENDIENTE DE TRABAJADORES DE MADRID - ES
  • SZZSZS - SINDIKAT ZAPOSLENIH U ZDRAVSTVU I SOCIJALNOJ ZASTITI SRBIJE - RS
  • Solidarumas LIETUVOS PROFESINE SAJUNGA SOLIDARUMAS – LT

 

Objectives

Objective 1. To identify good practices, challenges to social dialogue, capacity building needs and areas for improvement for efficient social dialogue regarding intra-EU labor mobility in home-based care services in 7 European countries during the month 2-7 of the project implementation by producing country-level research and analysis (with quantitative and qualitative research methods – surveys, interviews, focus group meetings and desk research), conducting 3 Online Expert Working Group Meetings, preparing Summative report based on the findings from national-level report titled “European Social Dialogue to Promote the Application of the Best Practices of Intra-EU labour mobility”.

Objective 2. To facilitate and promote effective social dialogue at both the EU and national levels, with a focus on addressing the challenges and opportunities related to EU-intra mobility in 7 participating European countries and EU level during project implementation through activities such as national-level and European level consultations and discussions, preparation of EU-level Policy proposal and Strategic Document "Social partners for effective EU-intra mobility”, Using Delphi technique to discuss and synthesize the project output documents.

Objective 3. To support the practical application of the European social dialogue at EU and national levels and raise awareness about social dialogue, intra-EU labour mobility in home-based care services sector by diffusing the created knowledge, project results, outcomes, outputs through implementing PCDC (project communication and dissemination campaign), conducting international Online Conference on "Social Dialogue in the Context of Intra-EU Labor Mobility", Organizing European Labour Mobility Congress 2026 during the project lifecycle.