EPR Prize

Celebrating Mutual Learning and Continuous Improvement

Every other years (previously held annually), EPR launches the EPR Prize to celebrate and award outstanding initiatives from EPR membership that enrich the services to persons with disabilities and strengthen their inclusion. Our members are encouraged to send us their good practices, services, programmes, methodology, tool or product matching the year’s chosen theme.

All submissions are featured on the EPR Knowledge Hub and website. The winner – the one that receives more votes by our EPR Centre Coordinators – is awarded the Prize during the EPR Public Affairs Event in Brussels, Belgium. They receive a 1000€ prize (to attend EPR events), return travel and one night accommodation to attend the Public Affairs Event, and the opportunity to present their practice to the event’s audience.

The theme of the EPR Prize 2025 is ‘Comprehensive support for Independent Living in service design and delivery‘.

Selection procedure

The practices are evaluated by EPR Centre Coordinators on the following criteria:

• Needs-driven (Does the practice address a clearly identified and unmet need?)
• Systematic approach (Are the problem, the milestones and outcomes well specified?)
• Stakeholder involvement (Is the practice centred on the patient, client or service user, taking a co-production approach? Do other stakeholders have a role in the initiative?
• Direct Impact (Is the impact on beneficiaries obvious and clearly demonstrated?)
• Strategic/wider impact (Has the initiative derived important lessons learned? Can it be transferred to other centres/target groups or generalized to the sector?)
• Practicality (Is the initiative cost-effective and easy to implement?)
• Inventiveness/Creativity (Does the initiative include new ways of thinking or working?)

For more information, please contact Eberhard Lueder at elueder@epr.eu or Alicia Gomez Campos at agomezcampos@epr.eu.

Previous Winners