📅 Implementation: 2 Jun 2025 – 1 Dec 2027 (30 months)
💶 Total Budget: €2,478,849.20 | ERDF Contribution: €1,983,079.36
🤝 Partners: 3 organisations
🎯 Type: Standard project | Healthcare & Social Inclusion | RS04.5

Summary

HEARTS improves access to medical and social care services for over 6,500 older adults every year in Timiș County (Romania) and Csongrád County (Hungary).
The project develops modern, community-based elderly care through new facilities, equipment, and coordinated cross-border services.

Main investments include a Regional Home Care Centre in Timișoara, the modernisation of the Rehabilitation and Balneotherapy Unit in Kakasszék, and upgraded medico-social centres managed by the Social Assistance Directorate of Timișoara Municipality. Together, they provide integrated home-care, rehabilitation, and day-care support.

Over 200 professionals, doctors, nurses, social workers, and caregivers, cooperate in joint working groups to create cross-border solutions for healthy ageing, inspired by the UN “Decade for Healthy Ageing.”
The project also promotes prevention, rehabilitation, and active lifestyles through public awareness campaigns in both countries.

By combining health and social care efforts, HEARTS builds a sustainable elderly care model that helps seniors live healthier, more independent lives across the Romania–Hungary border area.

Project Aim

To improve access to medico-social services and promote healthy, active ageing through cross-border infrastructure, training, and cooperation.

Key Activities & Results

🔹 Regional Home Care Centre – Timișoara: Establishment and equipment of a centre serving 2,663 annual users, supported by telehealth and remote monitoring tools.
🔹 Rehabilitation Unit – Kakasszék: Renovation of the Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Unit, including balneology and radiology areas.
🔹 Modernised Medico-Social Centres – Timișoara: Equipment upgrades for four centres offering day-care and rehabilitation services.
🔹 Professional Network: Over 200 medical and social specialists co-develop a  comprehensive cross-border healthy ageing concept, integrating prevention, rehabilitation and care.
🔹 Information and publicity activities:  in Timișoara, Hódmezővásárhely, and Kakasszék, to promote the project’s investments and services.

Partnership

Lead Partner: Emergency Municipal Clinical Hospital of Timișoara (RO)
Project Partners:  Hódmezővásárhely–Makó Health Care Center (HU) and  Social Assistance Directorate of Timișoara Municipality (RO)

HEARTS builds a stronger and more compassionate healthcare network across Romania and Hungary. By integrating medical and social care, improving infrastructure, and promoting active ageing, the project empowers seniors to stay independent and well for longer — turning healthy ageing into a shared cross-border achievement.

For more details, consult the project fact sheet: EN

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