EASPD organises Seminars and Policy Events throughout Europe, focused on a particular European policy topic or theme of interest to our sector. Below you have the list of the more recent policy events EASPD has organised:
2018
- Social Infrastructure Investment: from local innovative ideas to investEU Project Funding
- Policy Seminar- the Price of Quality
- Side event to the 11th session of the Conference of States Parties to the CRPD- Assistive Technologies
- Roundtable: The Role of Social Services in the Implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights
- Coproducing employment initiatives for young persons with disabilities and mental health problems
2017
- Roundtable: Implications of the EU Working Time Directive on Social Rights
- "Dignity + Independent living = DI" Conference
- Early Childhood Intervention: For meeting sustainable development goals of the new millennium
- "Accessing to the best loans through the EU Investment Plan" - Belgium event on EU Investment Plan for Social Services
- Side event to the 10th session of the Conference of States Parties to the CRPD- Reforming Social Services In Europe To Embrace The Human Rights Approach
- Multi-stakeholder Partnerships: The Power to Create Change!
- Sensibilisation à la création d'entreprise par l'AVIQ et Objectif Entreprendre à Namur
- Sensibilisation à la création d'entreprise par l'AVIQ et Objectif Entreprendre à Charleroi
2016
- Roundtable Discussion - Developing More Inclusive Labour Markets for Persons with Disabilities (6 December, Brussels)
- Policy Impact Group Seminar on unlocking the EU investment plan (28 November, Brussels)
- EASPD Policy seminar "Implementation of EFSI: Unlocking investment for social inclusion" at European Parliament (8 September, Brussels)
- EASPD Policy seminar: "Unlocking job creation in the social services sector, the role of the EU?" at European Parliament (28 June, Brussels)
- side event in New York during the 9th Conference of States Parties to the UNCRPD (14-16 June, New York)
2015
- Policy Impact Group seminar "how the European semester can help to implement the UN CRPD" (9 December, Brussels)
- side event in Geneva during the 14th session of the United Nations' committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (28 August, Geneva)
- side event in New York during the 8th Session of the Conference of States Parties to the UN CRPD (10 June, New York)
- Hearing: "Lights, camera, action! The Co-production process : shaping all together a more inclusive society". (2 June, Brussels)
2014
- Hearing: "The EU social clause: let's use it!"
- December events - European Day of Persons with Disabilities
- June events
