Portugal faces an urgent challenge: investing in long-term care. The 2021 Report sounds the alarm, highlighting demographic ageing and the growing need for care. The RNCCI model strives for quality, but affordability remains an obstacle. With public spending below the EU average, national strategy and support for informal carers emerge as vital in an ageing and challenged Europe.
We live in a world that is defined by fast changes, positive and negative. Especially when it comes to all the negative developments such as climate change, social inequality, and wealth disparities, we have reached a point where urgent actions are needed.
Individuals over the age of 18 and/or organisations legally established in CEB (Council of Europe Development Bank) member states can submit their projects in the early stages of implementation that address pressing social issues until 18 March 2024.
In 2021, IRIS launched a questionnaire to the social innovation and entrepreneurship community to map the main characteristics of this growing ecosystem.
Every January, the World Economic Forum holds its annual meeting in Davos, where leaders in politics from over 100 governments, more than 1000 partners from different business sectors, civil society leaders, up-and-coming leaders, the foremost experts in a range of areas, entrepreneurs, academia, and members of the media, come together to discuss important global issues.
Having worked for 20 years in the field of homelessness, as a volunteer, in various inclusion projects, with companies, public bodies and organisations that support and try to transform their lives, I know, interact with and recognise an enormous desire to help people experiencing this scourge to walk the path to a life of dignity and full citizenship.
If there's one thing that life constantly reminds us of, it's that it changes! And my path has been paved with so many changes that I've ended up becoming a fan of change.
Despite all the demands that active agents of transformation have to meet, monitoring and evaluating impact is now essential. And this is one of the focuses of Transforma.aí's work.
The source of danger for 2024 is not economic but geo-political, with dark clouds in the horizon at all levels – national, regional and global. It will be a dangerous year for sustainability and prosperity at a global level and a key challenge is that sustainability will only be achieved though cooperation and solidarity.
Some people think that working collaboratively is much easier in the field of social entrepreneurship than in the corporate world. They're wrong. There are reasons for this, and some of them are presented here.
Overwhelmed by what can be done, we move between the real world, subject to failure and mortality, and the virtual world, which tends to be immune to failure and where we can possibly find room for "better versions of ourselves", moving further and further away from the centre of ourselves. Could the ethics of AI focus more on the question of what Good we seek to fulfil through technology and the data that feeds it?
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