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SPACE – Social Prescribing and Civic Engagement

Space – Social Prescribing and Civic Engagement is an Erasmus+ funded project that aims to bring together social prescribing and volunteering to create an environment and approach that supports the health and well-being of people with health and rehabilitation needs. The project will address Education and Training needs of health, social care and rehabilitation professionals, NGO/Civil Society leaders, as well as policy makers, making a direct impact on the EU Cancer Mission contributing to the National Cancer Plans. 

The main goal of the project is to work transnationally and across sectors to promote dialogue, knowledge exchange and common understanding of Social Prescribing, and to address common education and training needs to increase quality in the work, activities and practices of organisations and institutions involved in social prescribing, opening up to new actors not naturally included to enable transformation and change, leading to improvements and new approaches at different practice and policy levels especially in the framework of the EU Cancer Mission.

Objectives

The main objectives of the SPACE project are to:

  • Co-produce with interested stakeholders a suitable approach for implementing and integrating volunteering as part of Social Prescribing, which can be adapted and utilised across Europe, especially for people recovering from cancer;
  • Raise the capacity and confidence of health, social care and rehabilitation professionals, as well as CSO/ NGO staff and volunteers to engage with the Social Prescribing programme in the context of volunteering within the project lifetime and the future;
  • Increase the interest and awareness of the value of volunteering in Urban/ Community gardens as part of Social Prescribing schemes, especially for people with or recovering from cancer, ensuring the sustainability of project results with practitioners and policy makers.

Partners

The project is led by the Centre European Volunteering (CEV) (Belgium), and is implemented together with seven other organisations:

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