Conferences

Activities & Conferences

At least 2 times a year, EASPD organises a series of events for its members. On top of that, EASPD is involved in organizing service provider forums in the new member states and as co-organizer in a number of other events with European and national partners. On these pages, you can find programmes, registration forms and reports of the different conferences that are organized.

*** UPCOMING EVENTS ***

!!!ACTION ALERT!!!

Training Course

“Bridging the Gap between Technology and Care when Implementing Person Centred Technologies/Assistive Technologies and Information and Communication Technologies in Services”

Vilamoura, Portugal

We are glad to invite you to the training course organised by EASPD and AAATE : ‘Bridging the gap between Technology and Care when implementing PCT/AT/ICT in Services: A training model for management of services’. The course will take place in Vilamoura, Portugal from 16th to 20th September 2013, and be delivered by experts and trainers from several EU countries.

For detailed information check the Training Course description

Please send your completed Pre-registration form to Ms Sonia Staskowiak at sonia.staskowiak(at)easpd.eu within the respective deadline:

To cover your expenses you can apply for a grant from EU Grundtvig or Comenius Grant to your national agency by 30 April 2013!!! See: Instructions for applying for funding

If you don’t apply for a grant you can send your completed Pre-registration form by 30 May 2013

Hurry up and register now!

For more information please read:

Training course announcement and registration

31.05.2012-01.06.2012, Thessaloniki, Greece

We are glad to invite you to the next EASPD General Assembly and International conference!

EASPD, in close cooperation with the Greek SAMO organisation IER, is organising an International Conference on Volunteering, which will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece on 31^st of May. The conference will present and discuss the results of the European project Quality and Qualification in Volunteering for Disability (QQVD). The project has identified and compared models of good practice in organising voluntary projects and activities for persons with various disabilities that are applied in different European countries.

The QQVD project final conference will include round table discussions on the political and institutional approaches to volunteering in the disability sector and presentations of the QQVD partners on different aspects of volunteering.

The programme on 1^st of June includes the EASPD General Assembly and Standing Committee meetings.

For more information for the two-days programme and the practical arrangements please contact Stefana Cankova: stefana.cankova@easpd.eu or visit the members' section of the website.

To register for the Volunteer Conference, please fill in and sent this registration form and sent it to volunteering@iea.gr by 06.05.2013

EASPD Conference Employment of persons with disabilities.

27-28 September 2013, Istanbul

EASPD Conference Employment of Persons with Disabilities:
Raising Awareness & Employment Opportunities
27-28 September 2013, Istanbul

Co-organized by the Ministry of Family and Social Policy of Turkey and EASPD; in close co-operation with ISKUR, the RACE consortium and the Dolunay Association.

With the support of the Council of Europe, the European Commission and the International Labour Organization.

The conference will tackle the main challenges preventing people with disabilities from enjoying fully their right to work: legislative frameworks, discriminative attitudes and lack of adequate support schemes.
We will look at the current situation and discuss future steps needed to facilitate access to the labour market for persons with disabilities. We will focus on the perspective of employees, looking at different approaches promoting employability, and on that of employers, by examining how they can be supported to successfully employ disabled people.
The topics will be discussed by multi-stakeholders panels composed of persons with disabilities, policy makers, representatives of employees and employers, authorities and support providers.

During the conference the best employment agencies and employers will receive an official award.

Overall conference goals
By sharing challenges and best practices the conference aims to remove barriers and to boost the employment for persons with disabilities. We will:

-   highlight the impact of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the right to Work and Employment (Art. 27)
-   promote the exchange between employers, employees, persons wih disabilities and social services
-   show models of good practice that have evidence based results
-   identify the necessary steps to create a positive synergy between employers and employees
-   launch the new EASPD’s Declaration on Employment.

For further information please contact Ms. Sabrina Ferraina: Sabrina.Ferraina@easpd.eu

*** PAST EVENTS 2012 ***

EASPD Policy Seminar 2012 “You cared for me, I care for you: solidarity between generations and abilities

Join us the 5th of December at the EASPD event “You cared for me, I care for you: solidarity between generations and abilities". This event will discuss care for seniors with disabilities and look at the conditions that allow family members of different generations to care for each other — thus making intergenerational solidarity possible.

You can find a leaflet introducing the seminar and the final program following this links:

EASPD Policy Seminar 2012 Programme

EASPD Policy Seminar 2012 “You cared for me, I care for you: solidarity between generations and abilities

Enjoy the reading and see you on December 5th!