DIMCARE consortium meeting held
A consortium meeting of the "DIMCARE - Digital Missions for Care Social Economy's Resilience" consortium, was held in Varaždin on Wednesday, December 14, 2022, and Thursday, December 15, 2022. The organizers of the meeting were the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, the University of Zagreb (FOI) and Varaždin County. The meeting was attended by 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, project partners met in the premises of Varaždin County where they had a 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.
The second day of the meeting, 15 December 2022, project partners met at FOI, where they listened to a presentation of the factory ITAS – Prvomajska d.d., a Social enterpreneurship 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 of the project held a meeting with the aim of planning future project activities.
DIMCARE 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 purpose of the project is 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 developed 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.
