title: Transfer of innovation, knowledge and competencies on the care service for people with acquired disabilities: the European Project "Care for Work".
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The growing needs of people with disabilities require to integrate this issue into public health in order to improve political feasibility and to ensure that disability will not be left off from any strategic table. The main aim of the "Care for Work" project was to provide training contents to help workers and unemployed people to adapt their knowledge, skills and competencies to the care services sector in order to facilitate their insertion in a new employment source.
  
  
  METHODS
  The partners participating in the project are Organizations from 5 European countries. The project has been divided into seven Work Packages (WPs): three transversal WPs and four specific WPs, each addressing specific activities necessary to achieve the final objectives of the project.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The "Care for Work" learning environment contains specific information and training on the techniques for caring people with acquired physical disabilities, as text documents and short training films. The project combines e-learning (Web 2.0) and mobile learning providing a flexible training platform for workers of care services sector.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The "Care for Work" project offers specific training addressed to meet the new existing needs of workers of the care services sector and/or unemployed people. All the information and results of the project are available on the web page: www.careforwork.eu, and the present article is part of the WP "Valorization".
authors.affiliation: Department GF Ingrassia, University of Catania, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Barchitta
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fragapane
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Consoli
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pennisi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Agodi
mesh_terms: D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000193:education*; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational