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European Network on Independent Living
ENIL is a user-led network of disabled people, with members throughout Europe. Our mission is to advocate for Independent Living values, principles and practices: provision of personal assistance and other community supports and services, a barrier-free environment and adequate technical aids, together making full citizenship of disabled people possible.
About our organisation
ENIL is a network based on solidarity and peer support
ENIL is a forum for all disabled people, Independent Living organisations and their non-disabled allies on the issues of Independent Living. ENIL represents the disability movement for human rights and social inclusion, based on solidarity, peer support, deinstitutionalisation, democracy, self-representation, cross-disability and self-determination. Our vision is of Europe where all disabled people are able to exercise choice and control over their lives, on an equal level with others; where they are valued members of the community and can enjoy all of their human rights, as set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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ENIL works to strengthen the empowerment of disabled people, through providing resources for peer support and peer-to-peer training. ENIL enhances the European disability sector by providing an arena for the sharing of disabled people’s experience of services and by providing expertise on independent living. Our Youth Network brings together young people, making their voice heard in the independent living movement.
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Self-Advocates and ENIL Connect to Strengthen Independent Living
By Sofia Paiva Goncalves – ENIL Trainee On the 14th of March, staff members from ENIL organized a workshop in collaboration with Inclusion Europe, …
Register for ENIL’s Study Visit in Ljubljana, Slovenia!
The European Network on Independent Living (ENIL) is pleased to launch a call for participants for an upcoming study visit taking place on 1–2 …
Joint call to ensure disability rights in the trilogue negotiation of the Regulation on Protection of Adults
The full text of the position paper is available in pdf here and in word here A group of equality organisations calls on the …
Find out about Independent Living in your country
The Independent Living survey was launched in 2020, to find about the state of independent living around Europe. Its results are updated regularly and shared with policy and decision makers at the European level.
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05/05/2026 – 05/05/2026
ONLINE FILM SCREENING – £12.40 an Hour for a ShowerThe story of Disabled people’s struggle to abolish home care charging in Hammersmith & Fulham To mark European Independent Living Day 2026, we invite …
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05/05/2026 – 05/05/2026
Access to the right to legal capacity. Where do we stand? Where do we need to go?Independent Living Day 5 of May 2026 New impulses for reforms for the right to legal capacity at the national, European and international level …
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14/04/2026 – 20/04/2026
Open Call: “Lead On” International Leadership and Human Rights Training Course for YouthJoin the Crew. Chart the Course. Claim the Treasure. Become part of the “Lead On” international training course, organised by the ENIL Youth Network with support …
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