Description
Description (EN): In the Danube Region (DR), fundamental needs of home care beneficiaries are not satisfied by current social service providers. There are extensive requirements to fulfill needs e.g. as proper medical therapies and support for body hygiene (basic needs), provision of adequate home facilities to prevent falls (security needs) and measures to enable social inclusion of needy people into the local community (social needs). In AT/D, especially poor people and rural areas lack of proper services. In CEE countries, even essential services are often not provided. Staff shortages, financial restrictions and insufficient use of new digital technologies are part of the problem in the whole DR. Social entrepreneurial trainings and few recently established social innovation labs aim to facilitate innovation of new services/products in the DR to tackle such societal challenges. Building upon these approaches, the project aims to establish specialized macro-regional D-Care Lab innovation structures to enable social service providers, product developers and social start-ups to design and implement better and innovative home care services and products for elderly persons, people with disabilities and children with special needs. Therefore, it contributes to the implementation of SPO 1.2 (developing innovative social services) in the domain of home care. The Transnational Lab Strategy is based on analysis of beneficiary needs (incl. needs caused by the Corona virus), innovation potentials/logjams and intends to identify complementary interregional resources (WPT1). The Transnational Lab of the Labs (WPT2) offers a framework for the incubation of the Regional Labs (WPT4) and a community of practice to increase mutual learning and transnational co-creation. The setup of Ecosystems of Social Investment (WPT3) creates financial and entrepreneurial support structures. During the pilot actions of 9 regional labs innovation structures are tested and improved (WPT4).
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Establishing a social innovation lab focusing on the field of home care is no easy feat, but the D-Care Labs partners took this challenge in stride and have managed, through the work of the 9 regional D-Care Labs, to innovate more than 50 home care solutions.
While partners from Germany, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Moldova and Romania worked hard on establishing a social innovation lab in their countries, they were supported by experts from the University of Heidelberg (UHEI).
The work package Transnational Lab, led by UHEI, functioned as an incubator that provided support and knowledge to partners in the field of social innovation and enabled knowledge exchange among them. A series of workshops in the transnational lab covered essential elements of setting up an innovation lab, from needs analysis and defining stakeholders to developing a business model for the lab. It also provided a process template for the regional labs and thus the labs were well on their way towards the establishment of the social innovation lab and solutions for home care.
D-CARE LABS ON THE JOINT LEARNINGS OF THE D-CARE LAB COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE:
The work of the D-Care Labs project ended in December 2022, and the work of the last 2 years culminated in a variety of publications that we are happy to present to the wider public.
One of the work packages of the project that produced a series of publications is the work package Transnational Lab of the Lab, led by the University of Heidelberg which provided the development and incubation support for 9 regional D-Care Labs. In the last 2.5 years, the partnership has established an interregional community of practitioners to facilitate transnational learning processes and knowledge creation in the field of home care innovation.
With a series of transnational lab workshops, the University of Heidelberg helped facilitate the incubation of the regional labs through a hypothesis-based, experimental and iterative learning process.
The central objective of the work was the sustainable development of nine regional innovation labs, with the transnational lab functioning as an incubator providing the knowledge base and expertise of the project partners in the field of social innovation but also the transfer of knowledge between partners. Knowledge transfer and multiperspectivity can be highlighted as fundamental resources for the implementation of the nine regional D-Care Labs as a combination of organizations with different backgrounds, diverse perspectives, country-specific welfare and care systems and different demographic developments led to one of the most important findings of the Transnational Lab of the Lab: regional D-Care Labs need to consider their respective ecosystem.
SOCIAL INNOVATION METHOD TOOLBOX:
Realizing social needs, developing first ideas and transforming them into fruitful innovation is a hypothesis based and iterative process of entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial actions. Social innovation labs support the innovation processes by the application of creativity methods.This method toolbox is an outcome of the incubation of nine D-Care Labs in the Danube Region. The complied innovation methods are designed to develop sound social business models.
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Website: http://www.interreg-danube.eu/
Expected Results (EN): Intensity of cooperation of key actors in the programme area in order to increase competences for business and social innovation (survey based composite indicator)
Expected Outputs (EN): The new established inter-regional D-Care Labs structure fosters intensified cooperation of key actors in the field of home care service and product innovation in the DR. The inter-regional cooperation enables the development of long-term complementary resources and transnational capacities (e.g. tools, social investment). Mutual learning processes and knowledge creation about the specialist D-Care Lab model are facilitated in the transnational lab of the labs (WP4). The 9 regional labs increase capacities and competences of public and private social service providers, product developers and start-ups to develop better, comprehensive and affordable home care services and products for elderly persons, people with disabilities and children with special needs. During the project, relationships with about 100 lab network partners (e.g. social investors) are established, about 250 participants test the lab programs and at least 32 social services and products are developed (KPIs: functional social business model, first proof of the concept, a financial investment plan and a stakeholder network).
Moreover, at the end of the project, at least one more potential partner will be identified, who is willing to develop and implement a regional D-Care Lab in further DR countries/regions e.g. Slovenia.
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Thematic information
Specific Objective:
Increase competences for business and social innovation (short title). Foster innovative learning systems to increase competences of employees in the business sector, to strengthen entrepreneurial culture and learning contributing to better meet social needs and the delivery of services in the general interest
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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
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Partners (14)
Lead Partner:
Das Diakonische Werk der Evangelischen Landeskirche in Baden e.V.
Address:
Vorholzstraße 3, 76137 Karlsruhe, Germany
Legal status:
private
Website:
http://www.diakonie-baden.de
Total budget:
EUR 413 992.71
ERDF budget:
EUR 351 893.80
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Mreža organizacija za decu Srbije
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Name:
Mreža organizacija za decu Srbije
Address:
Vizantijski bulevar 142/13, 18000 Niš, Serbia
Legal status:
private
Website:
http://www.zadecu.org
Total budget:
EUR 95 130.00
IPA2 budget:
EUR 80 860.50
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Udruženje Partnerstvo za javno zdravlje
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Name:
Udruženje Partnerstvo za javno zdravlje
Address:
Azize Sacirbegovic 96, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Legal status:
private
Website:
http://www.pjz-pph.ba
Total budget:
EUR 30 343.33
IPA2 budget:
EUR 25 791.83
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Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
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Name:
Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Department:
Department of Social Policy
Address:
Trg Republike Hrvatske 14, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Legal status:
public
Website:
http://www.pravo.unizg.hr
Total budget:
EUR 27 099.80
ERDF budget:
EUR 23 034.83
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Caritas der Erzdiözese Wien - Hilfe in Not
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Name:
Caritas der Erzdiözese Wien - Hilfe in Not
Address:
Albrechtskreithgasse 19-21, 1160 Wien, Austria
Legal status:
private
Website:
http://www.caritas-wien.at
Total budget:
EUR 269 176.70
ERDF budget:
EUR 228 800.20
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Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
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Name:
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Department:
Centre for Social Investment (CSI)
Address:
Seminarstraße 2, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Legal status:
public
Website:
http://www.uni-heidelberg.de
Total budget:
EUR 264 499.90
ERDF budget:
EUR 224 824.92
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ACT Grupa
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Name:
ACT Grupa
Address:
Dr. Ivana Novaka 38, 40000 Cakovec, Croatia
Legal status:
private
Website:
http://www.act-grupa.hr
Total budget:
EUR 242 950.00
ERDF budget:
EUR 206 507.50
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Települési Önkormányzatok Országos Szövetsége
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Name:
Települési Önkormányzatok Országos Szövetsége
Address:
Damjanich u. 44, 1071 Budapest, Hungary
Legal status:
private
Website:
http://www.toosz.hu
Total budget:
EUR 226 476.15
ERDF budget:
EUR 192 504.73
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Fondacija Mozaik
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Name:
Fondacija Mozaik
Address:
Splitska 14, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Legal status:
private
Website:
http://www.mozaik.ba
Total budget:
EUR 209 360.00
IPA2 budget:
EUR 177 956.00
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Grünhof e.V.
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Name:
Grünhof e.V.
Address:
Belfortstr. 52, 79098 Freiburg, Germany
Legal status:
private
Website:
http://www.gruenhof.org
Total budget:
EUR 205 578.20
ERDF budget:
EUR 174 741.47
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Sdruzhenie "Federatsia na socialnite sdruzhenia v Bulgaria"
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Name:
Sdruzhenie "Federatsia na socialnite sdruzhenia v Bulgaria"
Address:
Tserova gora 1, 1612 Sofia, Bulgaria
Legal status:
private
Website:
http://www.fssb.bg
Total budget:
EUR 178 079.25
ERDF budget:
EUR 151 367.36
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Federatia ONG-urilor Sociale din Transilvania
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Name:
Federatia ONG-urilor Sociale din Transilvania
Address:
str. Bucegi (ap. 23) 2A, 400124 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Legal status:
private
Website:
http://www.socialngonetwork.ro
Total budget:
EUR 149 949.25
ERDF budget:
EUR 127 456.86
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Fundatia AGAPEDIA din Moldova
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Name:
Fundatia AGAPEDIA din Moldova
Address:
str. Lomonosov 20, 2009 Chişinău, Moldova
Legal status:
private
Website:
http://www.agapedia.de
Total budget:
EUR 101 985.33
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Center za Evropsko Prihodnost
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Name:
Center za Evropsko Prihodnost
Address:
Grajska cesta 1, 1234 Menges, Slovenia
Legal status:
private
Website:
http://www.cep.si
Total budget:
EUR 101 274.50
ERDF budget:
EUR 86 083.32
