What you will gain as a THCS Community Member?
🤝 Connect with Peers Across Europe and Beyond
Engage with professionals working on similar health and care system challenges and build collaborations beyond individual projects.
đź’ˇ Share and Discover Knowledge
Exchange experiences, tools, and good practices while learning from real-world implementation and innovative approaches.
🚀 Strengthen Impact
Help shape research and innovation agendas aligned with health system needs and increase the visibility of your work.
📢 Find Opportunities
Stay informed about initiatives, calls, events and emerging themes within the THCS partnership.
đź’¬ Join Thematic Discussions
Participate in topic-based groups aligned with your expertise and interests.
Thematic communities
Open a community to join the discussion and share your posts.
Health promotion and prevention
Health promotion is about improving overall well-being and empowering people to take control of their health. Health prevention focuses on reducing the risk of specific diseases or detecting them early.
Digital health and care
Digital health and care refers to the use of digital technologies, data, and information systems to support, deliver, and improve health and social care services, as well as to enhance people’s health and well-being. It is not just about technology itself, but about how technology is used to improve access, quality, efficiency, and person-centred care.
Individuals and community engagement
Individuals and community engagement refers to the meaningful involvement of people—both as individuals and as part of communities—in decisions, actions, and processes that affect their health, care, and well-being.
Health and care financing
Health and care financing refers to the way money is generated, allocated, and used to pay for health and social care services.
Health and care workforce
People engaged in actions whose primary intent is to enhance people's health.
Quality of care
Degree to which health and care services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes.
Governance and leadership
Characteristics that allow guiding and managing health and care systems.
Mental Health and Wellbeing
Interventions aimed at increasing people’s ability to cope with the stresses of life, realize their abilities, learn well and work well, and contribute to their community.
Data-Driven Health Policy
Use of data and analysis to develop evidence-based health policies. Improving understanding of what is required to bridge the gap between evidence and public policy.
Low-Value Care
Overuse, misuse and underuse of health and care services, e.g., delivery of harmful ,ineffective, inappropriate, or not cost-effective services or failure to provide services despite being necessary with negative consequences for patients, their caregivers, the healthcare workforce, and the health and systems a whole.
Ecosystems
The factors that relate to transformative Ecosystems. In this context, transformative ecosystem involves stakeholders working in various interacting organisations who are committed, and, through aligned actions, able to reach joint, explicitly defined goals in the long term.
Health Security and Preparedness
Activities required to minimise the danger and impact of health threats and programs to respond quickly and effectively to new ones.
Long-Term and Social Care
Medical and personal services as well as practical support services that allow people with mental or physical illness or disability to maintain a level of functional consistent with their basic rights and human dignity.
Ageing Populations
Rise in the share of the older people that leads to several health and care challenges.
Environmental Sustainable Health Systems
Minimization of negative impacts of health and care systems on the environment.
Vulnerable Groups and Health Inequalities
Actions aimed at improving health for groups and communities at a higher risk for poor physical, psychological, or social health.
Empowerment and Self-Management
Processes that help people gaining control over their own health and increase their capacity to act on health-related issues.
Integrated Care
Coordinated and comprehensive process of providing integrated health and care services through a people-centred approach.
Prevention and Management of Chronic Diseases
Actions taken to keep people healthy and mitigate the burden of disease.
Knowledge Hub User Community
This community was created to support the ongoing co-design and continuous improvement of the THCS Knowledge Hub. It is an external user insight, feedback and testing group which will support the project by helping to: - validate whether proposed developments are genuinely useful to end users - identify usability, accessibility and navigation issues early - test assumptions before investing in full implementation - ensure the platform reflects the needs of different health and care ecosystems across Europe - strengthen stakeholder ownership, engagement and long-term sustainability beyond the THCS project - provide practical evidence of co-design and user-centred development to sustainability and exploitation activities
THCS Funded Projects
THCS-funded projects are multinational research and innovation initiatives supported through the Joint Transnational Calls of the European Partnership on Transforming Health and Care Systems. They bring together researchers, policy-makers, health and social care providers, and other stakeholders from different countries to address key challenges facing health and care systems across Europe. These projects are designed to generate knowledge and practical solutions that contribute to the transformation of health and social care systems, making them more resilient, sustainable, equitable, efficient, and person-centred.
Capacity-building
This community provides capacity building initiatives in the field of R&I, based on desk research and stakeholder consultations. It is specifically meant for researchers and innovators in EU countries, who are interested in enhancing their research and/or innovation development skills through various phases of the R&I cycle.