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Social Innovation Services for Care

The Department of Social Rights and Inclusion is launching the new Social Innovation Services for Care (SISCU) with the aim of promoting innovation and implementing new models and resources to improve the situation of people in a state of dependency and their families throughout their lives. SISCU also focuses on prevention in stages prior to dependency and/or functional diversity to anticipate future situations of need, enabling resource optimization.

The TIC Salut Social Foundation provides support and technical advice to the Department of Social Rights and Inclusion, through the Secretariat of Social and Family Affairs, for the implementation and deployment of the SISCU project.

The agents involved in the innovation process include universities and research centers, service providers and technology companies, users and their representative organizations, vocational training centers, and the Administration itself.

Workstreams

To accelerate social innovation in the field of care, a network of services is established to expand the current SIRIUS Personal Autonomy Center. In this way, an ecosystem of innovation and improvement in the care and support of people with dependency needs is created, advancing sector productivity. This acceleration follows these lines of action:

  • Training: Specific training in accessibility and care for people in a state of dependency will be proposed for those providing care professionally or personally.
  • Network of Support Product Banks: Specialized services providing technical assistance products — on a temporary or permanent basis in a loan modality — to individuals in a state of dependency.
  • Physical Adaptations and Provision of Elements: Initial experience with the pilot robot ROBSIS to improve care for children and adolescents. This experience focuses on preventing behaviors such as bullying, cyberbullying, and understanding one’s own and others’ emotions.
  • Showroom: A showcase of solutions, exhibitions, and advisory services to identify advances in the industry and emerging companies (start-ups) in the fields of personal autonomy and energy efficiency, facilitated through:
    • Research laboratory
    • Residence of the future
    • House of the future
    • Home automation devices
    • Augmentative and alternative communication

Within the framework of the Recovery Plan for Europe ( Next Generation EU-CAT ), Catalonia proposes to transform the challenges arising from the crisis generated by the COVID-19, into an opportunity to promote the ecological transition and the digital transformation. The aim is to face current challenges and promote the country to become greener, more digital and more resilient.

The application tool for these European instruments is the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR) , approved by the Council of Ministers on April 27, 2021, by the European Commission on June 16, 2021 and by the Council European on July 13, 2021.

This Plan is structured in four transversal axes dedicated to  ecological transition ,  digital transformation ,  social and territorial cohesion , and  gender equality  that are projected into 10 lever policies. These include 30 components that are organized into a total of 212 measures, of which 102 are reforms 1 110 investments. Finally, these measures materialize in projects and lines of action that must reach specific milestones and objectives with the activities or tasks executed, in accordance with the obligations to monitor their execution set by the European Commission.

Parallel to the approval by the European Council of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience instrument; the Government of the Generalitat approved in July 2020 the Plan for economic reactivation and social recovery . The Plan is structured through twenty large projects containing up to 145 specific actions. The projects are grouped around five axes that outline the social, economic and institutional model towards which Catalonia must move in the next decade:

Axis 1: Economy for life.

Axis 2: Digitization.

Axis 3: Ecological transition.

Axis 4: Knowledge Society.

Axis 5: Transversal actions.

With the aim of implementing the application of these measures in Catalonia, Decree Law 5/2021, of February 2, was approved on urgent measures for the implementation and management of funds from the Recovery Mechanism and Resilience and the REACT-EU fund for the Administration of the Generalitat of Catalonia and its public sector .

In this context, the Catalan Health Service is managing several projects within the scope of its competence to contribute to meeting the challenges that Catalonia has set itself in terms of renewing and expanding the capacities of the National Health System (component 18 of the PRTR) and modernization of public administrations (component 11 of the PRTR).