DIMCARE project meeting in Varaždin

05. 12. 2022. / Project
DIMCARE - Varaždin Meeting
The Faculty of Organization and Informatics will participate in the “DIMCARE - Digital Missions for Care Social Economy’s Resilience” consortium meeting that will be held in Varaždin in November.

The 2-day event will be held in Varaždin on Wednesday, December 14, 2022, and Thursday, December 15, 2022, under the organization of the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, the University of Zagreb (FOI) and Varaždin County. The meeting will gather representatives from five partner institutions: Universitat Pompeu Fabra from Spain – project coordinator, Ajuntament de Mataró, Associació Social Business City Barcelona from Spain, Comune di Prato and Polo Universitatio Citta di Prato from Italy.

On the first day of the meeting, December 14, 2022, in the premises of Varaždin County, partners will participate in the presentation of the Varaždin County Red Cross, followed by a visit to the protective workshop at the Secondary Vocational School Varaždin and the social enterprise Humana Nova in Čakovec.

On the second day of the meeting, December 15, 2022, project partners will meet at FOI and have opportunity to hear presentation of the factory ITAS – Prvomajska d.d., a Social entrepreneurship course that is being taught at FOI and “WAI4PwDs - Web Accessibility and other Initiatives for Persons with Disabilities in EU in Pandemic and other Crisis Times” project.  In addition to these presentations and interactive discussions, the consortium meeting will be held with the aim of planning future project activities.

The project is funded by the Single Market Programme (SMP), Social economy and local green deals supporting SMEs to become more resilient (SMP-COSME-2021-RESILIENCE) call, with a budget of 179.015,89 EUR.

The project aims to raise awareness about the importance of digitalization for social entrepreneurship and the human care sector, to discover and share good practices and interregional learning on the digitalization of social entrepreneurship and to discover the specific needs of the people care sector. The result of the project will be to develop guidelines for the digitalization of social entrepreneurship, and the people care sector on the local scale.

The members of the DIMCARE project at FOI are Assoc. Prof. Ivan Malbašić, Ph.D. (project leader at FOI), Asst. Prof. Nikola Kadoić, Ph.D. and Laura Strupar, Bacc. Inf.

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