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Knowledge hub Meaning and Spiritual Care gets follow-up with new ZonMw grant


17 December 2024


With a ZonMw grant of 2.8 million, the Knowledge Hub on Care for Meaning and Spiritual Care will have a continuation from 1 January 2025. Over the next three years, professionals from care and welfare practices, education and research can work together with clients and volunteers to further professionalise care for meaning in the home situation. The University for Humanistic Studies is the project's pen leader.


The overarching aim of the Knowledge Hub is good care for meaning in primary care, and in particular the professionalisation of spiritual care at home. In 2019, the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport made spiritual care at home accessible to people aged 50 and over, and to children and adults in the last phase of life. The scheme runs until 2027 and needs to be evaluated. In parallel, ZonMw therefore launched the research programme Meaning and spiritual care, from which the Knowledge Workshop emerged.


The Knowledge Hub began in 2021, with an extension in 2022. Researchers, educators and professionals from all kinds of organisations and branches found each other on the theme of meaning and worked together with clients and volunteers to develop knowledge about this care. Together, they built a shared infrastructure for exchanging knowledge and experience, and for developing new tools and insights for training and practice. Thus, there were 16 learning networks, 7 sector projects from the care and welfare corner, and 5 umbrella working groups. Last year also saw the launch of the Knowledge Square for Meaningfulness, an online development site for professionals from practice, education and research, as a pilot.


So for the next three years, the Knowledge Hub can continue with the award of a new grant from ZonMw.


Read more about the research project.


Over the next three years, professionals from care and welfare practices, education and research can work together with clients and volunteers to further professionalise care for meaning in the home situation.