EPR Innovation Prize

Celebrating mutual learning and continuous improvement

The difficulty lies not in new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

The Innovation Prize concept was developed by the EPR to encourage the circulation of information on innovation and best practice, and rewards the best practice inserted in the Knowledge Management Centre on the criteria of innovation and added-value to the rehabilitation sector.

EPR Innovation Prize 2010

The competition starts now!

Professionals from EPR centres are invited to participate to the EPR Innovation Prize 2010 by inserting information on best pratices in their centres via the KMC. Do not miss this unique opportunity to promote your best practices and to support the mutual learning process within EPR members.

All the best practices inserted in the KMC between 1 February 2010 and 31 March 2010 will be eligible to win the Prize. The contest is open for a period of only two months: no time to waste!

How to participate?

The contest is open to all professionals working in an EPR member organisation. Applicants can submit a practice from their organisation that they feel to be particularly innovative and useful for the service users. The best practice can be of any type (a service, a programme, a methodology, a tool, etc...) and related to all areas of service provided by EPR members.

One application can be submitted on behalf of an individual or a team. Organisations are of course welcome to submit more than one best practice!

To submit a best practice, professionals need to fill in the standard KMC template and to insert their application in the KMC. All the templates inserted between between 1 February 2010 and 31 March 2010 will be eligible to win the Innovation Prize.

For more information on how to use to KMC, go to http://epr.eu/kmc.

The Innovation Prize Winner

The EPR Innovation Prize will be granted to the best practice selected for its innovative aspect and its added-value for the customer upon the vote and decision of the EPR Centre Coordinators, based on pre-defined criteria.

The winner will receive a voucher of 1.000 Euro for travel and participation to EPR professional development activities. In addition, he/she will be invited to receive the Award and to present the best practice at the EPR Annual Conference on 18 June 2010.

Would you like to meet last year's Innnovation Prize winner? Just click on the picture!

More about the Innovation Prize

To get a summary of the Innovation Prize objectives and practicalities, download the Innovation Prize information leaflet.

To know more about the contest procedures and the selection criteria, read the Innovation Prize guideline.