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Social Economy Action Plan – A Short Briefing
This overview briefing outlines the most relevant initiatives for social economy organisations, associations and social enterprises working with people with a disability. EPR will monitor the development of the individual initiatives, feed in where possible, and keep members updated and engaged. You can download the publication here.
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Insights, Recommendations and Good Practices for Quality Services
EPR believes that quality of services is a fundamental issue in service provision. When services are not of a high enough quality, they may not meet the needs that they aim to meet, or even create more needs. Inadequate quality services can negatively impact a person’s quality of life, but also their dignity and human […]
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Artificial intelligence and service provision for people with disabilities
This analytical paper focuses on the impact of AI on the provision of social services to people with disabilities. The aim of the study is to provide social service providers with useful information and analysis on challenges and opportunities brought by the diffusion of AI tools, as well as on project opportunities, support needed and […]
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Moving Towards a green economy and services for people with a disability
This paper investigates the topics of green transition and green economy. The main thematic focus is on the impact that moving to a green economy will have on the provision of social services to people with disabilities and on identifying the main opportunities and challenges for the sector in terms of employment, social inclusion, skills […]
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EPR Study 2021: Service provision for people with disabilities during COVID-19
The idea of the study was to understand what ensured services for people with disabilities and mental health conditions worked well during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. EPR wanted to find changes that were made to the services for labour market and social inclusion and new ways that they were provided which were made […]
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EPR Catalogue of Activities and Services 2022
You can consult our Catalogue of Activities and Services here. It outlines our working groups, taskforces, conferences, seminars and training workshops, as well as planned research, papers and support to members.
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Annual Report 2020
Our Annual Report 2020 is now available online! In this publication we look back at the year 2020, our Conferences, Workshops, Trainings that we adapted and delivered fully online. The growing EPR community strengthened its boundaries and succeded working together in a year full of challenges due to covid-19. Read our key publications, check out our […]
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Calendar of EPR events 2021
You can consult our calendar of events here, which is updated as soon as dates are confirmed.
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From Care To Employment: A Short Study On Programmes Supporting Return-To-Work
In 2020, EPR issued a short study focusing on disabilities programmes, services, projects that support clients from illness or the acquisition of a disability into labour market inclusion. To do so, EPR gathered information from its members. Six organisations submitted practices on the subject of the study that were analysed aiming to compare different approaches, […]
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Quality Services for Social Inclusion: Mapping Quality Regulations, Requirements and Trends in Vocational Rehabilitation for Persons with Disabilities
This study mapping quality regulations, requirements and trends in vocational rehabilitation for persons with disabilities in Europe has two main objectives: To better understand the current obligatory and voluntary regulations, requirements and trends in vocational rehabilitation for people with disabilities across different European countries; To inform the relevant stakeholders and policy-makers on the existing gaps […]
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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