AI4Care – Empowering Caregivers with AI for Inclusive Support

About the Project

In construction

The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is changing many sectors, including those of health and care. Caregivers of people with disabilities often lack the necessary digital knowledge and skills that could help them use these tools by which they could directly improve the quality of life of their users. They can accomplish this by increasing their independence and inclusion and making accessible a range of different services. AI-based solutions – such as speech recognition, smart assistants, predictive analytics and assistive technologies – can personalize the care, improve the communication, as well as caregivers’ efficiency and well-being, and relieve them of unnecessary tasks. With the “AI4Care” project, the Croatian Udruga osoba s intelektualnim teškoćama Istre - UOITI (Association of People with Intellectual Disabilities of Istria) and the Slovenian IPAK Institute will empower caregivers - whether they are family members, professional caregivers or, for example, social workers - by improving their ability to provide an effective, inclusive and technologically supported care. .

The goals we want to achieve are:

A. training and requalification of caregivers in AI-supported care

B. promoting digital inclusion for caregivers and people with disabilities

C. developing sustainable educational resources for long-term impact.

To achieve our goals, we will educate caregivers and thus increase their efficiency, reduce workload, and improve the quality of service. The application of AI-based assistive technologies will increase the independence of people with disabilities, while digital inclusion will improve care and make support for people with disabilities more modern. At the same time, the project will position UOITI and IPAK as leaders in the field of digital inclusion of people with disabilities. We will achieve this through the following activities:

developing a practical manual on AI adapted to the needs of caregivers, which represents a long-term resource for learning
organizing workshops with practical training
creating a sustainable educational model that can be applied even when the project ends.

Through these activities, we will train at least 30 caregivers, making them digitally literate. We will also publish a manual on AI, improve the independence and quality of life of people with disabilities through AI-enhanced support, and create an educational model that can be adapted to other sectors of care and health system.

The project has been awarded 30,000 euros under the Erasmus+ Programme and will be implemented from 01.09.2025 to 31.05.2026.