Past events
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Active Inclusion of People with Disabilities through social economy employment models 2019
3 December 2019, 9.00-13.00
On December 3rd, EPR hosted its annual Public Affairs Event in Brussels from 9.00 to 13.00. It was focused around the role of social economy employment models as tools to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights and Active Inclusion. ‘A tool for Active Inclusion of People with Disabilities – Social Economy Employment Models‘. EPR […]
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Quality Social Services: a Key to Ensure Social Rights
20 November 2019
This mini-conference aimed to promote mutual learning on providing quality services, to discuss success factors and how to address challenges, including a focus on implementing social rights and the “European Pillar of Social Rights”. Workshops gave opportunities to learn about methods to improve the quality of services and participants were encouraged to network during lunch […]
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Webinar on Happiness and engagement in the workplace for quality services
13 November - 10.30 to 12.00
Motivation, engagement and happiness of the staff can lead to improved services that can more effectively promote social inclusion of end users. For this reason, it is important that organisations active in the field of care have the opportunity to learn new methods and apply new tools to support and measure happiness in the workplace. […]
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Training on Employment and Job Coaching Skills
5-6 November 2019
Employment represents one of the fundamental elements to guarantee economic security, social inclusion, personal satisfaction and a good quality of life. However, job placement can be particularly difficult, especially for some disadvantaged groups, like people with disabilities. In recent years, Job Coaches tried to support their labour inclusion. However, skills required to Job Coaches are […]
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National Awareness Raising Event (Employment) – France
15 October 2019
L’emploi accompagné, un nouveau levier pour l’inclusion professionnelle en France? Trois ans après le lancement en France du dispositif d’emploi accompagné, il s’agit de présenter et mettre en perspective des expériences françaises au regard d’autres pratiques européennes. Il s’agit également de mettre en valeur les conditions de réussite de ce nouveau dispositif pour favoriser un […]
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Be RIGHT Final Conference & World Mental Health Day
9-10 October 2019
October 10th was World Mental Health Day. The final conference of the Eramus+ project Be RIGHT took place in Brussels in a frame of various events focused on mental health during the 9 & 10 of October. 9th October (Afternoon) EU Mental Health Alliance – ICF, Avenue Marnix 17, 1000, Brussels The future of work […]
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Workshop for Directors 2019 – General Assembly
10-11 October
Dealing with Complex Changing Environments to Ensure Quality Service Provision In October 2019, EPR gathered Directors from our Member Organisations in Athens, hosted by our Greek member Theotokos. The aim of the workshop was for the organisations to learn from an expert and apply methodologies to their own organisation, in addition to promoting networking among […]
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Webinar on Autism and Social Inclusion – October 1
1 October 2019
EPR invited the Autism Europe director to share their innovative/inspiring projects to promote the social inclusion of people on the autistic spectrum. Attending EPR members also exchanged on current practices/services developed in their own organization. Based on their own experience, attendees was invited to share some key success factors to effectively develop service supporting the […]
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Webinar on Homecare – 25 September
25 September 2019, 14.00-15.30
Home Care is a broad term used to describe care and general assistance services for people experiencing different types of physical or mental issues that require individualized home-based intervention by the services. Despite the wide range of services offered in these field, it is necessary for these interventions to have a methodology and an approach […]
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EU Policy Flash Webinar
5 September 2019
This EPR Policy Flash Webinar focused on discussing EPR’s input into the public consultation assessing the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020. Participants looked at the CSRs (Country Specific Recommendations) published by the European Commission addressing every EU country – find out the CSRs for your country here. For more information about what the CSRs are you […]
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EPR European Pillar of Social Rights Day – 24th to 27th June
24-28 June
In November 2017, the European Commission launched the European Pillar of Social Rights (see our dedicated webpage here) to promote and protect social rights of EU residents. This is the latest key social initiative in Europe. EPR monitors and follow the developments on the Social Pillar as services play a key role on its success: […]
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Less is More? Rethinking Resources for Quality Services – Annual Conference 3-5 June 2019
3-5 June 2019
EPR’s 2019 Annual Conference was co-organised by Astangu, our Estonian member, and took place in Tallinn on June 3rd-5th, 2019. 3rd June: AM: Tour of Astangu. PM: EPR internal meetings – Centre Coordinators and General Assembly (at Astangu, Astangu street 27, 13519 Tallinn) and opening reception (at Nordic Hotel Forum,Viru väljak 3, 10111 Tallinn) 4th […]
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EPR Mental Health Working Group 2nd Meeting
13 - 14 May 2019
On 13 – 14 May, the EPR Mental Health Working Group came together for the second meeting of this working group specialised at looking into mental health issues. Thanks to the hosting of EPR member Fundación INTRAS in Valladolid, Spain, the group met for one day and a half to discuss topics such as how […]
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National Awareness Raising Event (Belgium) – Socio-Professional Rehabilitation
7 March 2019
EPR, Rehabilitation International and the Belgian Institute for Health and Disability Insurance hosted a mini-conference on socio-professional rehabilitation, with presentation of good practices and research from inside and outside of the workplace where around 100 people took part. The conference was opened by an intervention on Addiction Medicine in the Workplace by Dr Marsolais, president […]
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ICF Exchange Among EPR Members
6 March 2019
On 6 March 2019 EPR organised a session for members to share experiences and developments in their use of International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in their respective organizations and to explore what future cooperation could take place within the EPR network on this topic. International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) […]
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From social service provision to decent policies: Implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights
20 February 2019
On Wednesday 20th of February from 10.00-12.00 at the European Parliament (room ASP5E3) Social Services Europe presented its most recent research study on Improving Work Life Balance (WLB) through enabling social services. This event was co-hosted by Mr David Casa, EPP Group MEP for Malta and Rapporteur of the Report on Work Life Balance […]
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National Awareness Raising Event Greece – Employment of People with Disabilities
Monday, 17 December 2018
This 1-day event was co-organized with Theotokos and addressed training and employment of pwd, with a focus on supported employment. Over 120 people took part. Local and national policy makers made interventions, Laura Jones presented good practices from the EPR membership and Luc Henau, as President of the European Union for Supported Employment, presented the […]
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Public Affairs, Centre Coordinators and General Assembly 2018
6 December 2018
Schedule of the day: > 9:00-13:00 Public Affairs Event > 13:00-14:00 Networking Lunch > 14:00-18:00 Centre Coordinators & General Assembly > 19:30-22:30 Networking Christmas Dinner Our yearly Public Affairs event took place on the 6th of December in Brussels, Belgium. This year we organised it together with EASPD with whom EPR did a joint research […]
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EQUASS Conference: Quality initiatives for Quality of Life and Social Inclusion
27-28 November 2018
Following last year’s successful Conference of EQUASS in Lithuania, EQUASS organised a new Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, from the 27th to the 28th of November 2018. The key focus of the EQUASS Conference was to present a wide range of Quality Initiatives from across Europe highlighting experiences and research results from practitioners and experts. The […]
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Measuring the Quality of Life of people with disabilities
Wednesday 21 November 2018
This seminar examined different models for quality of life of people with disabilities. A representative of National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) in Finland presented some of the latest developments regarding the digitalisation of the functioning measures database. This is an open access free-of-charge tool in Finnish, designed for experts and professionals interested in how […]
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EQUASS
The European Quality in Social Services (EQUASS) is an initiative of the European Platform for Rehabilitation (EPR). EQUASS enhances the social sector by engaging social service providers in continuous improvement, learning and development, in order to guarantee service users quality of services throughout Europe.
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This website received support from the EPR framework partnership agreement with the European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion for 2018-2022 from the EU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI). For further information please consult: http://ec.europa.eu/social/easi