The European Partnership on transforming health and care systems (THCS) is a European partnership programme that fosters the transition towards more efficient, innovative and high-quality people-centred health and care systems. The THCS Consortium brings together 66 partner organisations from 27 countries, including ministries, research and innovation funding organisations, and research organisations.
A core activity of THCS is to fund research and innovation projects through joint transnational calls on common priorities and topics. THCS also facilitates the implementation and transferability of service solutions across different national and regional contexts, and supports collaborating, capacity building and networking among stakeholders. It addresses the common core challenges health and care systems in Europe are facing, such as the ageing population and scarce resources.
At Tampere University, our team focuses on enhancing understanding of partnership-based models for delivering health and social care services, fostering peer learning, and highlighting effective models that can inspire developments in other European countries. Our work explores how various actors – public service providers, businesses, civil society organisations and service users – can collaborate to co-develop and transform services.
We especially study transformative ecosystems across Europe to identify factors that enable cross-sector collaboration and systemic transformation. These ecosystems are characterised by multi-actor engagement and the breaking of traditional sectoral boundaries, linking health and care services with areas such as housing, employment and preventive wellbeing.
In addition, Tampere University contributes to work packages focusing on strengthening research-policy collaboration, supporting the transferability of good practices, and promoting capacity building in health and care systems.
