EU funding for intermediate care units in social welfare institutions
EU funding for intermediate care units in social welfare institutions | Author Freepik
The call for proposals will support the establishment and operation of:
- the central point for coordinating the discharge of adult patients with complex needs requiring complex, coordinated care from hospitals to the provider of the social service of round-the-clock institutional care within the public service network;
- the simulation education centre and education programmes for developing and strengthening the competencies of health workforce, patients, and their relatives to provide individual services relating to the procedures required by the patients; and
- the intermediate care units in social welfare institutions or at providers of long-term care in institutional settings.
The call for proposals will ensure equal opportunities for equal and timely access to quality, safe, and affordable services in institutional settings for persons whose hospital treatment is concluded and do not require the degree of care which hospitals or skilled nursing facilities provide but require care and services above the level of room and board. With this call, Slovenia reaffirms its commitment to ensuring an accessible, safe, and modern public health system.
The call for proposals will be implemented under priority Long-term care and health, and social inclusion of Slovenia’s EU Cohesion Policy Programme 2021-2027. It will pursue specific objective Enhancing the equal and timely access to quality, sustainable and affordable services, including services that promote the access to housing and person-centred care including healthcare; modernising social protection systems, including promoting access to social protection, with a particular focus on children and disadvantaged groups; improving accessibility including for persons with disabilities, effectiveness and resilience of healthcare systems and long-term care services.
The call will make a total of €5,674,140 available; it will receive over €3.5 million, more specifically €3,569,962.25, from the European Social Fund Plus.
The Ministry of Health will publish the call for proposals in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia on Friday, 12 September 2025.