EPR Publishes its Strategic Priorities 2026 – 2029

EPR Publishes its Strategic Priorities 2026 – 2029

The Strategy is the result of a co-production exercise where EPR members, together with the EPR Board and the EPR Secretariat, identified and reflected together on the key matters our organisation wants to focus on in the upcoming years.

The Strategy aims to level up EPR’s role as a referent for high-quality rehabilitation services and services to people with disabilities, solidifying our identity as a network committed to excellence, and innovation in service delivery.

Building on this collaborative foundation, the Strategy introduces a renewed set of strategic objectives designed to respond to emerging challenges, leverage opportunities, and position EPR at the forefront of sectoral transformation. These objectives reflect our shared commitment to:

• Strategic priority 1: EPR enables Innovation in Service Provision: We do that through mutual learning, training, projects, resource development and networking opportunities. Activities provide access to key expertise and knowledge, and aim to bring positive change and lasting impact for EPR members’ regular activities;
• Strategic priority 2: EPR is a consistently growing, stable and sustainable network: We do that by working towards having a more geographically representative membership in the EU and by creating partnerships;
• Strategic priority 3: EPR promotes technology as an enabler of effective and efficient services that ensure inclusion, independent living, and rehabilitation: We do that by promoting the adoption and use of new technologies, including assistive technologies, digital tools and artificial intelligence, as an enabler for services to be more effective and efficient;
• Strategic priority 4: EPR demonstrates leadership in supporting transitions in education, employment, independent living, and rehabilitation: EPR members demonstrate leadership and provide orientation for supporting all main life transitions;
• Strategic priority 5: EPR is a point of reference for Quality Standards across Social Services of Excellence for persons with disabilities: EPR serves as a point of reference for high quality and excellence in services to persons with disabilities. EPR members deliver services that contribute to improving the quality of life of the service users;
• Strategic priority 6: EPR grows its policy influence through targeted contributions and strategic partnerships: We do that by analysing EU policy outcomes related to the sector and provides information to EPR members. Designing a policy strategic agenda to guide its advocacy efforts. Gathering members outputs to provide feedback to EU policy consultations.

Read the full EPR Priorities and Strategic Objectives here.