CAREFUTURE-project explores the reasons behind serious labor shortages and high turnover in health and social care, and how citizen- and employee-driven bottom-up innovations, and organizational, AI-based and policy-driven top-down innovations could alleviate the care crisis. So far, the variety and interrelated impact of innovations as a system has been approached marginally in care. Our multidisciplinary approaches (adult education, nursing science, social sciences, data processing sciences, public health science) and a national innovation competition across formal and informal care provide chances to cultivate innovation capabilities of employees and societal actors. This supports development of local experiments into generalized solutions. This requires investigation of dynamics, impact and ethical sustainability of the innovations in care system. Learning from international innovation cases and developing of a national innovation system benefit care practice and policy in Finland.

2025

2028