Partners
Josefsheim Bigge
Josefsheim Bigge is a rehabilitation centre for presently around 750 people with physical, learning and sensory disabilities as well as other complex disabilities. The services provided include living arrangements for children, adolescents, and adults, a special needs kindergarten, a Vocational Training Centre for the training of young people with disabilities and a Sheltered Workshop. Josefsheim is the only organisation in Germany to have been awarded the European seal of quality “Equass Excellence”.
Stiftung Liebenau
The Liebenau Foundation which is based in Meckenbeuren-Liebenau has stood up since almost 140 years for people in need of assistance; in doing so, professionalism and Christian commitment come first. Together with the people of the city of Tettnang the chaplain Adolf Aich founded a home for incurables.Meanwhile, the former “Care and Healing Institute” has become a modern social, health and training organization with approximately 5500 collaborators, who assist, support, counsel, and accompany more than 15.000 people. It offers its approximately 200 services at almost 90 sites in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Bulgaria. One of the primary goals of the Liebenau Foundation is to demonstrate that in spite of personal constraints people can by all means participate in social life - no matter if they are constrained or disadvantaged by disability, sickness or for other reasons. The Liebenau Foundation provides its support through different offers exactly there, where social life happens, where people meet and design their present – which is in training and work, at home and in leisure time. Participation and self-determination are the central goals which the Liebenau Trust has pursued since its foundation.
Bugenhagen BBW
The Bugenhagen Berufsbildungswerk as a Vocational Training Centre for adolescents and young adults with learning and/or physical disabilities as well as mentally disabled people offers its services for 33 years. Nowadays we are involved with the occupational rehabilitation for about 450 students between the ages of 17 and 25; they are accompanied by 180 employees for their special assistance. Taking over the practical part of vocational training the Bugenhagen Berufsbildungswerk nowadays provides education for disadvantaged or handicapped students in 36 different professions of handcrafts or services. The quality of training in the Bugenhagen Vocational Training Centre has been certified under the DIN ISO 9001:2000 standard first in March 2006.
The Cedar Foundation
The Cedar Foundation was established in 1941 and is a leading voluntary organisation that delivers services to disabled people throughout Northern Ireland. Cedar employs 260 staff to deliver services to over 1600 people per year. Services include: Living Options that provide a range of residential and supported living projects for people with different levels of care needs; Training Services that provide a menu of innovative training, employment and support programmes; Brain Injury Services which enable people with brain injury to live and work productively in the community; and Children & Young Peoples Services which provide a range of projects and information services to young people and their families. The Cedar Foundation maintains ISO 9001:2008 registration, is an Investor in People Champion and in 2007 was awarded the prestigious EFQM European Excellence Award and a special EFQM Award for Customer Focus.
Panagia Eleousa
Panagia Eleousa was founded in 1990. It is a Charitable Society, a Private Law Legal Entity, a non-for-profit organisation of social and public interest under the aegis and the inspection of the Ministry of Health and Social Solidarity and of the Prefecture of Etoloakarnania. Panagia Eleousa provides in two Education Centers in Messolonghi (the Seat) and in Agrinio vocational training, counseling, psychological support, lifelong education and care to 120 people with intellectual disability and related disabilities aged over fifteen years. Panagia Eleousa is certified by the European Platform for Rehabilitation (EPR) in the field of social services (EQUASS Excellence).
Valakupiu Rehabilitation Centre
Valakupiai Rehabilitation Centre (VRC) provides medical, vocational and social rehabilitation services for people with physical disabilities from all Lithuania. The residential sector in Vilnius is adapted for 50 residents and premises in Vilnius and Kaunas for 80 out-patients. VRC made all its efforts for improvement of quality of services. Since 2007 VRC is certified with LST EN ISO 9001:2001 standard requirements, and since 2008 is certified with EQUASS Excellence quality mark.
Technische Universität Dortmund
The Technische Universität Dortmund was founded in 1968 and has been dedicated to inter-disciplinary cooperation between natural/technical sciences and social/cultural sciences and their specialities with regard to research and teaching. The Department of Rehabilitation Sciences comprises 17 teaching and research areas, each of them having a special research focus in the domain of rehabilitation. This makes it one of the largest teaching and research institutions of Rehabilitation Sciences in Europe. One of the department’s primary objectives is to increase the abilities of handicapped people in their individual and social surroundings. We consider it equally important to develop improvements to these surroundings, thus maximizing the opportunities available for each individual to participate actively in all aspects of society.