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LeTs-Care:

Advancing Long-Term
Care in Europe

The LeTs-Care project (Learning from long-Term Care practices for the European care strategy) is a comparative research project funded under the “Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society” area of Horizon Europe. Launched on April 1, 2024, its objective is to identify and study effective and replicable solutions in the field of long-term care.
long-Term Care practices
long-Term Care practices
long-Term Care practices
European societies find themselves in a window of opportunity for the advancement of LTC policies and practices. The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear that there is a need for accessible, affordable and quality services, more equality, protection and inclusion for people in need of care, informal caregivers and care workers, and sustainability. To meet these goals, policy makers, stakeholders and researchers need to comprehend the challenges ahead, the patterns and drivers of inequalities in LTC, the potential contribution of emerging practices and the development of contextualised sustainable practices.
LeTs-Care combines an ethnographic approach with the analysis of territorial indicators and fuzzy-set/Qualitative analysis to provide a new, in-depth, reflexive understanding of LTC challenges and their diversity across 7 European countries.
Our mission is to disentangle the meanings of taken-for-granted LTC concepts and illuminate how , e.g., “care” or “integrated care” have different meanings in different contexts. We will produce new evidence and a novel approach to territorial inequalities in LTC, their drivers and interdependencies.
Through 18 detailed ethnographic studies, we will unravel the complexities of care practices and the intricate web of choices, tensions, and trade-offs that shape them. This approach will yield context-sensitive policy recommendations, grounded in real-world dynamics and tailored to the unique needs of different regions.
The project’s commitment to Open science will maximise its impact and inform care policies in the agenda in the years to come.
The project is led by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, with seven participating partners from The Netherlands, Spain, Lithuania, Denmark, Portugal, Austria, and Belgium.

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LeTs-Care researchers contribute to international dialogue on LTC

From 1 to 3 September, the Menéndez Pelayo International University hosted the UIMP-IMSERSO Summer Course, bringing together experts to reflect on the future of LTC. As part of the programme, three researchers from the LeTs-Care project – Barbara Da Roit (University of Venice), Roberta Perna (CSIC), and Alexandra Lopes (University of Porto) – took part in a roundtable dedicated to presenting the project’s findings.

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9 September 2025

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