Facing a burgeoning elderly population and a shortage of qualified caregivers, CAPABLE aims to emphasis the centrality of social and healthcare sector in European policies. Centered on the EU Care Strategy, CAPABLE aims to make social care careers more attractive and to provide workers with the skills needed to deliver high-quality services. The project starts from the acknowledgement of the urgency of the situation: by 2030, an estimated 4.3 million care worker positions will need to be filled across Europe.
CAPABLE addresses this challenge through a multifaceted approach:
Support the Central Directorate for Labor, Training, Education and Family – Family policy coordination service in managing the partnership and implementing planned activities for the exchange of experience among partners. The goal is to improve policies supporting care services for the EU’s growing elderly population, ensuring competent care and attracting new talent. Manage capacity building activities on the regional territory with local stakeholders. Participate in international experience exchange events. Manage communication, dissemination and promotion activities of the project results.
The CAPABLE project participated in the Exchange of experience for our projects event on 15 April 2026, followed by Europe, let’s cooperate! 2026, the annual flagship event of the Interreg Europe Programme held in Copenhagen from 16 to 17 April 2026.
From 10 to 12 March 2026, the partners of the Interreg Europe CAPABLE project met in Dreieich and Neu Isenburg (Frankfurt) for the second Exchange of Experience (EoE) event of Semester 2, focused on improving training pathways and qualification systems for workers in the elderly care sector.
On 12 February 2026, the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia convened the main stakeholders involved in the project, including CISL, UIL, DOMINA and FIDALDO, for a hybrid meeting held in Trieste. The meeting provided an opportunity for discussion, operational coordination, and a shared update on ongoing activities.
During its first six months of activities, the CAPABLE project launched an initial regional analysis to better understand how care for older people is organised across the territories of the European partners.
The CAPABLE project addresses one of the most urgent challenges for the European Union: ensuring high-quality, innovative, and sustainable care services for older people, while at the same time creating dignified and attractive jobs in the care sector.
Start date: 01/05/2025
End date: 31/07/2029
Role: Subcontracting
