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## The UJI promotes better social care for the elderly and their carers from a European perspective

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The European Union is facing an ever-increasing demand for quality social care for the elderly. Currently, the complexity of the legal and political framework for social economy organisations (SEO) raises the need for a reconfiguration of the dominant model of social care that calls into question the dignity, identity and quality of life of both the elderly and their carers.

The research group SOGRES-MF - Sustainability of Organisations and Management of Social Responsibility - Financial Markets at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló is participating, together with eight other European institutions, in the SONYA project "The role of the social economy in the fight for social inclusion, quality employment and sustainability" with the aim of moving towards more respected, inclusive and valued social care services for the elderly, which extend beyond medical care.

The aim is to promote participatory networks of multiple actors and community initiatives in the social and environmental spheres that enable social economy organisations to efficiently create quality jobs that contribute to equal opportunities and the socioeconomic inclusion of disadvantaged groups and help revitalise rural and depopulated areas of the European Union, where a large part of the older population in need of support is concentrated.

Specifically, the project aims to increase the organisational capacities of social economy organisations to identify and transfer innovative best practices and measure their impact (with scientific precision) on care for the elderly by applying indicators of social inclusion, sustainability and quality, effectiveness and efficiency of the service in order to improve legal frameworks and social policies.

To carry out the project, a dynamic network of multiple care actors will be established in three EU countries, with various organisational models (advanced, medium and early stage of development) involving more than two thousand people in co-creation activities, and the working conditions of social economy organisations in the three participating countries will be analysed: Italy, Spain and Bulgaria.

These three countries have experienced the phenomenon of depopulation in rural areas as people, especially the younger generations, have migrated to urban centres in search of better opportunities, and are traditionally linked to agriculture and the preservation of a rich cultural heritage that plays an important role in community life. In addition, the case of Australia will also be taken into account to face the challenges of geographical distance and population dispersion, a hybrid case between the advanced stage in which Italy finds itself and the middle stage of Spain.

The consortium for the Horizon Europe programme project is coordinated by the École Supérieure de Commerce de Rennes (France) and, in addition to the UJI, includes the Fundación de la Comunitat Valenciana El Olmo and the company Zabala Innovation Consulting from Spain; the Università Degli Studi di Firenze and the Federazione Trentina della Cooperazione SC from Italy; the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology and the Active Society from Bulgaria; and Deakin University from Australia.

The team from the Universitat Jaume I, made up of Juana M. Rivera, M.ª Jesús Muñoz, Idoya Ferrero, Elena Escrig and Miguel Martínez, will develop an evaluation framework that will make it possible to determine the contribution of SEOs to the aid system, identify key performance indicators and desirable future scenarios that are more sustainable, and provide support to social enterprises for the adaptation of their information systems for the management and evaluation of their activity with sustainability criteria.

The SONYA project "The role of the social economy in the fight for social inclusion, quality employment and sustainability" is funded under the "Culture, creativity and inclusive society" programme of the HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01 call with grant number 101177171.

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