Welcome to
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.
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 engages EU Stakeholders at Brussels Policy Lab next September 25
The LeTs-Care project will host its first Policy Lab, next September 25th, 2025 in Brussels. The event will focus on one of the most urgent concerns in Long-Term Care: the resilience and sustainability of the care workforce.
1 August 2025
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LeTs-Care Goes Global!
At the International Public Policy Association Conference, ICPP7, held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, from June 1 to 4, 2025, Prof. Poškutė (ISM University of Management and Economics) presented the paper “Meeting Long-term Care Needs of Older Adults in Ageing Societies: case of Lithuania.”
13 June 2025
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Project Opens Up to Stakeholders: Insights from the Innsbruck Coordination Meeting
From 2nd to 4th June, 2025, the LeTs-Care Consortium gathered in Innsbruck for a productive coordination meeting that marked a significant step in the project’s engagement with the broader sector and key stakeholders.
4 June 2025
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