Organized jointly by DIPLOCAT and the Delegation of the Government of Catalonia to the Nordic Countries and to the Baltic States

DIPLOCAT and the Delegation of the Government of Catalonia to the Nordic Countries and to the Baltic States have organized a programme of visits from 18 to 21 September in Stockholm and the Västerbottens Län region in northern Sweden. The aim is to learn first-hand about innovative experiences in the field of social and health care and the use of new technologies to facilitate their practice in remote or difficult-to-access places.

The trip program includes visits to hospitals, rural medicine centers and telemedicine projects, and meetings and interviews with health policy makers, technological experts and medical staff, among others.

The group of 12 people participating in the trip is made up of representatives of different DIPLOCAT member entities, such as the Catalan Association of Municipalities, the General Council of Aran, the provincial councils of Girona and Tarragona, the The Group of Entities of the Voluntary Sector of Catalonia and the Government of Catalonia through its ministries of Health and Social Rights. The secretary general of DIPLOCAT, Laura Foraster i Lloret, and the Government delegate to the Nordic Countries and to the Baltic States, Montserrat Riba, will also take part.

With this activity, DIPLOCAT encourages the analysis and exchange of international good practice models that may be relevant for social and health care in Catalonia's remote or sparsely populated areas, thus contributing to facilitate territorial balance and the fight against depopulation.