Tackling loneliness with EU Korale partners

Fingal County Council join consortium of six European Countries to participate in KORALE project.

KORALE, which is short for "Towards a Community of Practice and Knowledge on Preventing and Tackling Loneliness from Public Policies," is supported by Interreg Europe and co-funded by the European Union. 

The project aims to improve public policies by exchanging good practices and integrating multifaceted approaches to address and prevent loneliness. 

Loneliness and social isolation have a harmful impact on mental and physical health and have important consequences for social cohesion. Loneliness is associated with a lack of political engagement and higher-risk behaviours. It also has an economic cost, estimated at 4% of the EU GDP. Loneliness can impact people’s quality of life across the whole life course, being specifically relevant in the elderly; less studied, loneliness is increasing quickly among young people, who were especially affected by the pandemic.

Fingal County Council, will partner with organisations in the Basque Country/Spain, Austria, Portugal, Belgium, and Denmark  to

• identify and share good practices that prevent or address loneliness at individual, family, and community levels, focusing on low-threshold approaches;
   
• learn about successful cases of intervention strategies that, deployed early in life, can lead to a reduction in the incidence of loneliness later in life, focusing on longer-term approaches;
   
• identify the key factors that enable these good practices to be transformed and achieve higher impact policies.

For further information see https://www.interregeurope.eu/korale