As you know, we (CdM @Rossana_Torri and WeMake @Costantino) are developing local activities in Milan, already discussed here and here.
We are also looking towards the final conference and thinking about wrapping up our experience throughout Open care. Speculations at this stage should include “how can a Public Institution foster an Open caring ecosystem?”
At the same time, the “outcome of the Commission’s first review” provided some challenging remarks that are worth taking into consideration, such as:
“This consortium needs to be more integrated to achieve innovative results. Work more together (publish together) and develop a sustainable approach to the exploitation of joint results”.
And
“This results in a lack of integration and visibility for the entire project. For example, it is not clear how the results of the work of the City of Milano and WeMake communities in the city are taken into account in the economic analysis by EHFF”.
These remarks push us back to the Mid Term review discussions and the Geneva consortium meeting’s follow up, where we got over this subject again.
Having said that, we wonder if we can open a discussion with you all and especially EHFF, that might stems from D4.3 Research paper. Integrating community-driven care services in European welfare states and includes our (above-mentioned) speculations.
Although we do not have budget to use on this task, nor are directly involved in WP4 deliverables, we will be available to do some work and possibly engage some junior researcher with academic background in economics.
Whether or not our effort will result in a publication, it would be a sign of attention for the commission recommendations.
We could start from EHFF intermediate presentation and catch up with it. Questions we could start from are i.e.:
- Is the list of Open care projects complete?
- did you extend to a broader definition of Health or you stuck to classic?
- have you proceeded with the evaluation of community-based projects?
- have you added up to the preliminary policy implications?
- Is the taxonomy you created usable?
From our perspective, we would be also interested in:
- what makes the projects selected special?
- are they scalable?
- are they sustainable?
- are they replicable?
- can we assess their multilayered impact?
- what was the role of PA if any?
- Did you assess cases that didn’t work?
- What was the role of PA if any?
These findings would enable us to compare to experiences going on in Milan and possibly add up to our investigation on how a PA can foster an Open caring ecosystem.
Of course, if you think of different or more empirical actions we can be involved in please let us know.
Please let us know if it make sense to you @Lakomaa @melancon @Alberto @LuceChiodelliUB @Costantino @markomanka