Co-creating Wellbeing: a handbook of tools and resources for applying co-creation in practice

The Co-Creating Wellbeing training course has been developed within the European ERASMUS+ project called “Co-Creating Wellbeing”. This has been developed from a previous project and course, called “Co-Creating Welfare”.

The motivation for the original Co-Creating Welfare course was the broadly acknowledged need for reorganisation within the welfare sector in order to obtain a more sustainable and cost-effective sector. Organisations that offer welfare services to citizens are often struggling with budget cuts, mainly due to consequences of financial crisis which has pushed forward the need for looking at new ways of organising the offerings of European welfare and wellbeing sectors.

As a response to the need for re-organisation, co-creation has started to become an acknowledged concept to create a more sustainable set-up and organisation of the welfare and wellbeing sectors. Co-creation is a new way of thinking about public services which has the potential to deliver a major shift in the way we provide health, education, policing and other services, in ways that make them more effective, more efficient and so more sustainable. But, professional practitioners need skills and knowledge to work with co-creation. The courses developed through the Co-Creating Welfare and Co-Creating Wellbeing projects aim to provide these skills and knowledge. You can find out more about the Co-Creating Wellbeing project, and access even more resources here: https://cocreatingwellbeing.eu/