European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities

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The European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities (abbreviation: EASPD , German: the European Association of Service Providers for People with Disabilities ), based in Brussels, is an umbrella organization of European institutions that serve to promote people with disabilities . The EASPD represents around 11,000 service providers in 33 European countries.

The EASPD describes its areas of work (in English terms):

  • "Impact" - giving service organizations a voice at European and national level
  • “Information” - from the EU to grassroots organizations and back
  • "Innovation" - in order to be able to support people with disabilities even better in exercising their rights

The association was founded in 1996. Its first president was the Irishman Brian O'Donnell. In 2008 the Austrian Franz Wolfmayr was elected as his successor.

In August 2014, the EASPD asked the members of the European Parliament to confront the candidates for an office as EU Commissioner with the following five subject complexes:

  1. Harnessing and releasing the potential for job creation in the field of social and health services.
  2. Exclusion of social and health services from the TTIP free trade agreement between the EU and the USA
  3. Accelerating the transition to community integrated services
  4. Go beyond the declaration of rights in the European Disability Strategy and ensure that people really enjoy their rights
  5. Greater influence from the European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ here-austria.at: The European legal framework for public procurement of social services (PDF). April 1, 2014, p. 3
  2. ↑ EASPD: Hearings of the nominated commissioners: 5 questions that the European Parliament has to ask ( Memento of the original dated December 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Press release. Brussels. August 26, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.behindertenhilfe.or.at
  3. ↑ On the problem situation see Harald Klimenta / Arnd Dohmen, kritik-freihandelsabkommen.de: Does the planned transatlantic free trade zone threaten our health? . November 2014
  4. ↑ European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional Care to Care in the Local Community, deinstitutionalisationguide.eu: Common European Guidelines for the Transition from Institutional Care to Care in the Local Community ( Memento des original of February 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: Der Archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . November 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / deinstitutionalisationguide.eu
  5. ↑ Franz Wolfmayr, insos.ch: Implementation of the UN Disability Convention in Europe. EASPD's strategy for implementing the UN CRPD and its “roadmap for de-institutionalization” . Solothurn, November 7, 2014
  6. ↑ era-comm.eu: European strategy for the benefit of people with disabilities 2010 - 2020: Renewed commitment to a barrier-free Europe . In: Academy of European Law: EU Law for People with Disabilities and the United Nations Convention . Pp. 15-26
  7. ↑ European agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education , european-agency.org (English)