Focusing on chronic respiratory conditions (CRDs), LMICs pay an unfairly high cost in terms of morbidity and mortality. Along with the existence of CRDs, other multiple long-term chronic conditions co-exist, including ischemic heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, osteoporosis and depression. Current care in these countries presents significant shortcomings such as the limited availability of affordable and user-friendly digital tools for remote monitoring and patient engagement, while care fragmentation is even more evident creating substantial inequality to the health services and outcomes, greatly affecting their Universal Health Coverage. In this direction, the 48-month implementation research-driven MULTIPULM project aims to apply an integrated care digital-based ecosystem, consisting of evidence-based tools, for effectively managing long-term conditions and enhancing secondary prevention of multimorbid patients suffering from chronic respiratory conditions with the focus on LMIC countries of Brazil, Serbia and Türkiye. MULTIPULM approach and offerings aim to improve the QoL of patients and their families as well as tackle the social, financial, political and organizational disparities linked with high challenging management of multimorbidity, formulating a reference paradigm for other LMICs to follow. The successful implementation of the integrated care models paradigms will be orchestrated by a meticulous detailed implementation roadmap and local capacity building activities for the creation of a critical mass of local stakeholders. In this light, MULTIPULM will be validated at large-scale with 3200 multimorbid patients in the 3 targeted LMIC countries. Last but not least, a socio-economic and financial assessment is scheduled to support local policy makers in the continuation of the project activities beyond its duration, contributing to the long-term sustainability of its benefits and to the improvement of the targeted countries’ UHC index.

The Social Economy (SE) sector constitutes over 10% of all EU enterprises, sustaining around 13.6 million job positions. Despite its significant role, Social Economy Organizations (SEOs) face substantial policy and legal challenges, including funding shortfalls and difficulties in scaling, underscoring the need for thorough investigation. While often acknowledged as innovative contributors to social inclusion, some criticize them for allegedly advancing a neoliberal agenda. Controversies persist, primarily due to challenges in measuring the social impact of SEOs and discerning their outcomes compared to mainstream social inclusion providers. To delve into this discussion, there is a pressing need to enhance evaluation tools for measuring the impact of SE on social inclusion. Although various approaches exist, they are primarily linked to improved accountability and external evaluation guidelines, commonly overlooking local needs and specificities. Concurrently, transnational reports indicate that SE employees, on average, receive lower compensation, experience more precarious jobs, and face informal working conditions. Therefore, there is an urgent need to broaden the scope of social impact assessment beyond service beneficiaries, incorporating the impact on SE employees. In this context, technological advancements hold the potential to support SE progression, with platform cooperatives emerging as influential contributors committed to citizen involvement and improving members' working conditions through collaborative governance. Against these backdrops, ASSETS employs a four-step strategy to explore SE's impact on social inclusion, quality job provision, and sustainability: conducting research and case studies spanning regions both within and outside the European Union, improving evaluation tools through local integration and technological advancements, and creating a digital collaborative platform to engage stakeholders and enhance working conditions within SE.

PALLIAKID is an interdisciplinary project aiming to evaluate the feasibility, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of novel interventions for children, adolescents and young people (AYA) with palliative and end-of--life care needs in different healthcare systems across Europe, with a focus on those factors that influences the active patients' and family caregivers' engagement. PALLIAKID responds to several needs or gaps identified by the consortium clinical partners, grouped into three cornerstones of paediatric palliative care: 1) Early identification of children and AYAs with palliative and end-of-life care needs, 2) Comprehensive assessment of children and their family caregivers' needs, 3) A comprehensive, personalised, interdisciplinary care plan including Advance Care Planning. The proposed solution entails three main results: PALLIAKID Eary Detection System, PALLIAKID intervention (Needs assessment, Advance Care Planning and Patient Journey digital platform); and PALLIAKID XR-based capacity-building program for professionals. In addition, the project will develop policy recommendations, guidelines and standards for patient-centred communication, together with a scale-up strategy to guarantee the project result's’ sustainability and impact. In this sense, PALLIAKID aims to reduce taboos and misunderstandings of paediatric palliative care with its activities and the planned Public Engagement Strategy. The consortium is composed of 19 entities with the needed and complementary expertise and knowledge to respond to the proposed objectives, including the triad perspective (child-family-professional): five clinical sites to co-design and test the PALLIAKID solutions, two European networks, four experts in the needs assessment and ACP tools to be adapted (HexCom and IMPACT), three technological partners, one expert in evaluation, three experts in SSH and one expert in data and ethical issues.