Laurel - Actionable policies for integrated long-term care

Get to know the people behind Laurel! In this series of videos, a representative of each of our nine partners tells us about their organisation, what they bring to the table, and what they hope to take away from Laurel to help build better long-term integrated care systems. Our partners range from universities carrying out cutting edge research to member organisations representing people with integrated long-term care needs. You can see the videos at laurelproject.eu/partners/ or watch the showreel below. https://lnkd.in/eHiNA6G7 #integratedcare #longtermcare International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) | AGE Platform Europe | Eurocarers | Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) | PANAXEA | EHTEL - Collaborating for Digital Health and Care in Europe | European Social Network | Social Economy Europe | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Check out the first edition of the Laurel newsletter! Hear about the project from our coordinator Albert Alonso. Read about the international conferences where our team have already made an impact on the development of long-term integrated care. Catch up on the Imagining 2029 webinar organised by EHTEL - Collaborating for Digital Health and Care in Europe Stay tuned for more updates in our quarterly newsletters.

⚠️Laurel Project Update⚠️ Laurel project results has been presented in the International Long-Term Care Network 2024, #iltp2024. The presentation focused on mapping and characterising regional practices to develop actionable policies favouring a shift towards integrated long-term care. Our PANAXEA colleagues Dr. Bert Vrijhoef, PhD and Dr. Anam Ahmed, PhD delivered the presentation, with the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC)'s Chief Executive Dr. Niamh Lennox - Chhugani (PhD) and EU Portfolio Coordinator, Dr. María del Pilar Gangas Peiró as authors, supported by the project coordinator Dr. Albert Alonso. 🔗https://lnkd.in/eZ-8EA7F ************ International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) | AGE Platform Europe | Eurocarers | Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) | PANAXEA | EHTEL - Collaborating for Digital Health and Care in Europe | European Social Network | Social Economy Europe | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid #longtermcare #integratedcare

⚠️Meet Niamh Lennox - Chhugani (PhD), Chief Executive of the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC), our partner in the Laurel Project⚠️ The International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) is a not-for-profit network incorporated as a Stichting in the Netherlands. IFIC’s mission is to cross organisational and professional boundaries in order to bring people to together to advance the science, knowledge and adoption of integrated care in policy and practice. IFIC seeks to achieve this through the development and exchange of ideas among academics, researchers, managers, clinicians, policy-makers and people who use services, alongside their carers and families throughout the world. A key focus of IFIC is to act as a research hub in partnership with its members and external academic centres internationally. The Foundation’s network extends across the globe with more than 30 international knowledge partners and the recent creation of IFIC collaborative centres in Australia, Ireland, Scotland and Canada. 🌐https://lnkd.in/ear6P94H To learn more, visit laurelproject.eu ************ International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) | AGE Platform Europe | Eurocarers | Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) | PANAXEA | EHTEL - Collaborating for Digital Health and Care in Europe | 'European Social Network | Social Economy Europe | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid #longtermcare #integratedcare

⚠️Meet our partners - European Social Network⚠️ The European Social Network is the independent network for local public social services in Europe. It brings together 180 organizations from 34 countries that plan, deliver, finance, manage, research, and regulate local public social services, including health, social welfare, employment, education, and housing. We support the development of effective social policy and social care practice by exchanging knowledge and expertise. 🌐esn-eu.org Learn more laurelproject.eu/partners ************ International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) | AGE Platform Europe | Eurocarers | Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) | PANAXEA | EHTEL - Collaborating for Digital Health and Care in Europe | European Social Network | Social Economy Europe | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid #IntegratedCare #longtermcare

⚠️Meet our partners - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid⚠️ Universidad Politécnica Madrid (UPM) is the oldest and largest of the Spanish Technical Universities. UPM currently gathers more than 3000 faculty members, around 38.000 undergraduate students, and around 6.000 postgraduate students, covering mostly Engineering disciplines. The institution holds a strong commitment to R&D and Innovation initiatives, bringing more than 200 Research Units and several Research Institutes, as well as Technological Centres. The UPM organization that will contribute to this project, with the support from the UPM European projects office, is the Telecommunication Engineering School (ETS Ingenieros de Telecomunicación), through the Research Group “Visual Telecommunication Applications Group” (GATV). Such organization relies on broad expertise in national- and European-funded projects, participating and leading multiple FP7 and H2020 initiatives, as well as holding international collaborations. GATV’s main activities are oriented to sensing and computer vision, Future Internet technical innovation and the application to different disciplines such as e-Health, leisure, games. Specific know-how in the field of e-Health include experience in the sensing technologies at home, IoT devices and AI-supported computer vision, decision support systems for the care environment stakeholders, heterogeneous and homogeneous graph based recommendation engines and deployment and scaling up strategies of services." 🌐www.gatv.ssr.upm.es Learn more laurelproject.eu/partners ************ International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) | AGE Platform Europe | |Eurocarers | Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) | PANAXEA | EHTEL - Collaborating for Digital Health and Care in Europe | European Social Network | Social Economy Europe | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid #IntegratedCare #longtermcare

⚠️Meet our partners - PANAXEA⚠️ Panaxea B.V. is a leading health research & evaluation consultancy firm providing effective, science-based solutions for companies and institutions working within healthcare. Panaxea’s mission is to accelerate market access and reimbursement for healthcare innovations with added value to the individual patient, the healthcare system and ultimately the society. It does so by applying state-of-the-art methods and developing innovative scientific methods for Value-Based Reimbursement Analysis, Health Services and Systems Research and Health Technology Assessment specifically for medical products and healthcare services in an early stage of development. 🌐panaxea.eu Learn more https://lnkd.in/gBF4kiYf ************ International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) | AGE Platform Europe | Eurocarers | Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) | PANAXEA | EHTEL - Collaborating for Digital Health and Care in Europe | European Social Network | Social Economy Europe | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid #IntegratedCare #longtermcare #integratedcare

⚠️Meet our partners - Social Economy Europe⚠️ Social Economy Europe (SEE) is the network that federates the different Social and solidarity families at European level and is a driver for enabling EU policy for Social Economy (SE). Currently, SEE has 24 members amongst which European Groupings, National Umbrella Organizations and European Networks, represents 2.8 million social economy enterprises and organisations in Europe that employ over 14 million workers and accounts for approximately 8% of GDP in nearly all sectors of activity. SEE is the secretariat of the European Parliament’s Social Economy Intergroup. SEE is also member of the European Commission Expert Group on Social Economy & social enterprises (GECES), the Civil Society Liaison Group, the EU Industrial Forum, the Youth Entrepreneurship Policy Academy and the European Platform to Combat Homelessness. SEE is also an observer member of the UN task Force in Social and Solidarity Economy and a founding member of the Ibero-American network for the Promotion of the Social and Solidarity Economy. SEE is the most representative SE entity in Europe. 🌐socialeconomy.eu.org Learn more https://lnkd.in/gBF4kiYf ************ International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) | AGE Platform Europe | Eurocarers | Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) | PANAXEA | EHTEL - Collaborating for Digital Health and Care in Europe | European Social Network | Social Economy Europe | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid #IntegratedCare #longtermcare #integratedcare

⚠️Meet our partners - AGE Platform Europe⚠️ AGE Platform Europe is the largest European network of non-profit organisations of and for older people. We elevate older people's voices, brining their experiences and aspirations to the table to celebrate ageing and fight for equality at all ages. AGE’s vision encompasses an inclusive society, based on well-being for all, solidarity between generations and full entitlement to enjoy life, participate in and contribute to society. At the same time, each person’s rights and responsibilities throughout their life course have to be fully respected. 🌐age-platform.eu Learn more https://lnkd.in/gBF4kiYf ************ International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) | AGE Platform Europe | Eurocarers | Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) | PANAXEA | EHTEL - Collaborating for Digital Health and Care in Europe | European Social Network | Social Economy Europe #IntegratedCare #longtermcare #integratedcare

⚠️Meet our partners - International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC)⚠️ The International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) is a not-for-profit network incorporated as a Stichting in the Netherlands. IFIC’s mission is to cross organisational and professional boundaries in order to bring people to together to advance the science, knowledge and adoption of integrated care in policy and practice. IFIC seeks to achieve this through the development and exchange of ideas among academics, researchers, managers, clinicians, policy-makers and people who use services, alongside their carers and families throughout the world. A key focus of IFIC is to act as a research hub in partnership with its members and external academic centres internationally. The Foundation’s network extends across the globe with more than 30 international knowledge partners and the recent creation of IFIC collaborative centres in Australia, Ireland, Scotland and Canada. Learn more https://lnkd.in/gBF4kiYf ************ International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) | AGE Platform Europe | Eurocarers | Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) | PANAXEA | EHTEL - Collaborating for Digital Health and Care in Europe | European Social Network | Social Economy Europe #IntegratedCare #longtermcare #integratedcare