Healthy Ageing Through Innovation in Rural Europe

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A France - Belgium - The Netherlands - United Kingdom (Les Deux Mers / Two seas / Twee Zeeën)

Date of latest update: 2024-12-17

Description

Description (EN):

Develop and test systems that empower and enable older people in rural areas to: i) define what support they need; ii) participate in the design and delivery of services; and iii) develop solutions for themselves to reduce loneliness and improve their quality of life, health and wellbeing, based on their own interests, capabilities and preferences and supported by the voluntary, private and public sectors.

Achievements (EN):

HAIRE’s project partners have developed and deployed the HAIRE toolkit in the 8 pilot sites. The training of volunteers and social care professionals to use the toolkit in the pilot sites has taken place which allowed 'HAIRE Enablers' to conduct 500 Guided Conversations with people over the age of 60 who are no longer in employment. The cross-border cooperation has been outstanding, with every partner contributing to PMGs, drop-in sessions, CREATE and SHAPE workshops, working in small Action Learning Sets and attending the final conference in Gent in February 2023. The CREATE and SHAPE processes have resulted in numerous local innovations to support people suffering loneliness and isolation. These include knitting and walking groups, community transport, welcome postcards, intergenerational projects, community directories and more. Partners have developed relationships with organisations interested in the transferability of the toolkit both geographically (adjacent to and beyond pilot sites) but also across sector boundaries to unexpected target groups. HAIRE’s approach is being applied more widely, e.g. for mental health support in different vulnerable groups such as the homeless (with CoLab in Exeter, UK) and to support doctors and social prescribers to deliver on a key NHS priority for healthy ageing (with the Coastal Primary Care Network in Cornwall, UK). It is being used to support the development of the Age-Friendly Community strategy in Hastings (UK). The toolkit has also been adapted for use in municipalities in Belgium and by a charity supporting young people in Somerset, UK. A comprehensive WIKI is now being completed so that future users can adapt the HAIRE Toolkit to tackle issues that they face in their own communities. HAIRE’s legacy is a real highlight. In most pilot sites, the work will go on. Feock parish Council has secured funding for a permanent, part-time role in the community. Meanwhile, Welzijnszorg Kempen noted that the project changed the way people were communicating with the local municipality and how they organised themselves. Elsewhere, the Département du Nord has created multi-agency policy working groups of elected members, older people, and care agencies. The toolkit has been taken up to support Community Health Workers in central Cornwall.

Website: https://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/haire/

Delivered Outputs (EN):

The HAIRE project was successful in producing a number of successful outputs sites and other activities that benefited a range of beneficiaries across the 2 Seas Programme area. HAIRE had a focus on rural areas, tackling the particular characteristics of social isolation in rural communities via empowerment, toolkits, system change, diverse pilot sites and collaborating with a range of stakeholders. The project’s achieved outputs are: ● A suite of HAIRE training materials: training HAIRE Enablers to: i) use Toolkit & ii) become peer mentors to train others in sites adjacent to pilot sites. ● A transferable HAIRE Toolkit which includes assistance with guided conversations, social network analysis & neighbourhood analysis tools & training materials. ● 8 pilot actions to develop community capacity based on the outcomes of Community Reports. Each pilot site resulted in multiple actions which allowed local stakeholders to explore new models of service design and delivery. ● Published guidance including a template for service delivery innovation using the HAIRE Toolkit with learnings from the CREATE and SHAPE workshop. This provides stakeholders with a template for building new models of service delivery and empowering older people and communities using the HAIRE toolkit. It includes case studies from all pilot sites and offers guidance on developing innovations in service delivery. Check the “Outputs” section below to download related material and see “Main Achievements” section for further information about the achieved results.

Thematic information

Health and social services Rural and peripheral development

Specific Objective: Increase the development of social innovation applications in order to make more efficient and effective local services to address the key societal challenges in the 2 Seas area

Thematic Objective: (01) strengthening research, technological development and innovation by:

Investment Priority:

(01b) promoting business investment in R&I, developing links and synergies between enterprises, research and development centres and the higher education sector, in particular promoting investment in product and service development, technology transfer, social innovation, eco-innovation, public service applications, demand stimulation, networking, clusters and open innovation through smart specialisation, and supporting technological and applied research, pilot lines, early product validation actions, advanced manufacturing capabilities and first production, in particular in key enabling technologies and diffusion of general purpose technologies

Partners (15)

Lead Partner: University of Exeter

Department: Centre for Geography and Environmental Science

Address: CGES, Peter Lanyon Building, TR10 9FE Penryn, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 1 091 855.30

ERDF budget: EUR 655 113.17

Unis-Cité Hauts de France

Name: Unis-Cité Hauts de France

Department: Hauts de France/ France

Address: 13 rue de Thérouanne , 59190 Hazebrouck, France

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 148 375.39

ERDF budget: EUR 89 025.25

Feock Parish Council

Name: Feock Parish Council

Address: The Old Market Hall, Market Street, TR3 6SD Devoran, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 185 409.11

ERDF budget: EUR 111 245.48

Devon Mind Ltd

Name: Devon Mind Ltd

Address: 156 Mannamead Road, PL3 5QL Plymouth, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 101 086.56

ERDF budget: EUR 60 651.93

Solidarity University

Name: Solidarity University

Address: Notendijk 47, 4583 SV Terhole, Netherlands

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 710 338.56

ERDF budget: EUR 426 203.14

Stad en OCMW Poperinge

Name: Stad en OCMW Poperinge

Department: Policy area for elderly care (home and residential care)

Address: Doornstraat 4, 8970 Poperinge, Belgium

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 235 744.10

ERDF budget: EUR 141 446.45

OCMW Laakdal

Name: OCMW Laakdal

Department: Welfare

Address: Markt 19, 2430 Laakdal, Belgium

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 183 527.18

ERDF budget: EUR 110 116.30

!DROPS

Name: !DROPS

Address: Klokstraat 29, 9050 Gentbrugge, Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 162 593.80

ERDF budget: EUR 97 556.29

M-A-P Digital Projects Ltd

Name: M-A-P Digital Projects Ltd

Address: 2 Tresahar Gdns, TR11 4PF Falmouth, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 1 441.00

ERDF budget: EUR 864.60

Université d’Artois

Name: Université d’Artois

Department: Laboratoire Lille Economie Management (LEM)

Address: 9 rue du Temple, 62 000 Arras, France

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 356 232.16

ERDF budget: EUR 213 739.30

Welzijnszorg Kempen

Name: Welzijnszorg Kempen

Address: Antwerpseweg 1A bus 1, 2440 Geel, Belgium

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 277 732.93

ERDF budget: EUR 166 639.76

University of Plymouth

Name: University of Plymouth

Department: Peninsula Research Institute & Institute of Health & Communities

Address: Portland Square, PL4 8AA Plymouth, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 428 840.25

ERDF budget: EUR 257 304.14

East Sussex County Council

Name: East Sussex County Council

Department: Adult Social Care and Health - Strategic Commissioning and Supply Management

Address: County Hall, St Anne’s Crescent, BN7 1UE Lewes, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 614 546.33

ERDF budget: EUR 368 727.81

Rother Voluntary Action

Name: Rother Voluntary Action

Address: London Road, TN39 3JY Bexhill-on-Sea, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 192 473.83

ERDF budget: EUR 115 484.29

Conseil Départemental du Nord – Département du Nord

Name: Conseil Départemental du Nord – Département du Nord

Department: Department of Social Welfare DTPAS Flandre Intérieure

Address: Department Hotel 51, Rue Gustave Delory, 59047 Lille Cedex, France

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 264 790.91

ERDF budget: EUR 158 874.55

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Unis-Cité Hauts de France

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Feock Parish Council

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Devon Mind Ltd

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Solidarity University

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Stad en OCMW Poperinge

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OCMW Laakdal

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!DROPS

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M-A-P Digital Projects Ltd

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Université d’Artois

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Welzijnszorg Kempen

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University of Plymouth

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East Sussex County Council

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Rother Voluntary Action

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Conseil Départemental du Nord – Département du Nord

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University of Exeter

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Summary

Project name (EN): Healthy Ageing Through Innovation in Rural Europe

Project acronym: HAIRE

Project start date: 2020-01-01

Project end date: 2023-03-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 4 954 987.41

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 972 992.46

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 0.60%

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HAIRE Social Network Analysis Questions

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Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu/

Publication date: 2023-10-23

Document date: 2022-09-30

Languages: en

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