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CoVCAP: Coordinating Volunteers supporting COVID-19 affected Persons

CoVCAP provides cities with a toolkit for targeting volunteer support to the most vulnerable in our communities during crises, thus mitigating the impact of COVID-19 and maximising scarce resources. As the number of unpaid carers, informal support networks, volunteers and support professionals are meeting critical demand elsewhere or are themselves ill, people who are vulnerable or ill themselves will need support to carry out basic living tasks including shopping, refilling prescriptions, traveling to medical appointments.

Project summary

CoVCAP provides cities with a toolkit for targeting volunteer support to the most vulnerable in our communities during crises, thus mitigating the impact of COVID-19

Project start:

1 July 2020

Budget:

€ 325 858

Context

Supporting cities in the coordination of volunteers helping ill people to carry out basic living tasks

Challenge

Manual matchmaking between vulnerable people and volunteers is a challenging task if their number is high due to some crises (such as COVID-19).

Expected outcome

A platform to request services (e.g. guiding during travel), offer volunteer help, make the pairing, evaluate the service and monitor all these tasks)

Project partners

Gold
Slovakia

Slovak University Of Technology In Bratislava

Leading Cities
Hungary

Municipality of Szombarthely

Leading Cities
Romania

Constanta City Hall

Project Lead

Laszlo Vajta

vajta@iit.bme.hu