The European Network on Independent Living (ENIL) begins working on a research paper on the implementation of Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which sets out the right of disabled people to live independently and be included in the community. The research will seek to support the…
In February 2016 ENIL started a 48-month project in Belarus in cooperation with Mental Health Perspectives (PSP), Office for the Rights of People with Disabilities (ORPD) as well as local and governmental authorities, civil society organisations and activists. People with intellectual or psychosocial disabilities (PIPD) are usually deemed to be legally incapable in Belarus and…
Maria Nyman, the director of Mental Health Europe and one of ENIL’s colleagues in the ELOSH project, was one of the key speakers at the ELOSH final conference “Housing and Support: successful ways to help people with complex housing needs”. The conference took place in Brussels on 15th September. In her speech Maria expressed her…
In October 2014, ENIL, in cooperation with the Centre for Independent Living Sofia (Bulgaria) and RUSIHAK (Turkey) started a 15-month long project aimed at promoting the right to independent living in Turkey. The project is co-funded by the European Union and the Republic of Turkey, under the Civil Society Dialogue scheme. The project partners have…
ENIL is a partner in the project called Learnabil-IT: Mutual Learning on skills for the ICT labour market for people with disabilities. This project will take place from Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2014. Learnabil-IT aims to promote the cooperation and mutual learning between the worlds of work and vocational education and training in the ICT…
John Evans, a member of the Advisory Board of ENIL, represented ENIL and its project ECCL (the European Coalition for Community Living) in the project ‘Fundamental Rights of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities and Persons with Mental Health Problems’, launched by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency in 2009 and completed in 2012. The project aimed to…
ENIL is organising a weeklong study session at the Council of Europe Youth Centre, with the purpose of encouraging and supporting young disabled people in advocating for human rights in their countries and at European level. Participants will have an opportunity to gain a better understanding of disability issues and acquire skills to promote the…
Through its project the European Coalition for Community, ENIL is a member of the Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community-based Care (EEG). The Group, established in 2009 at the initiative of the then Commissioner Spidla, has already produced the Report of the Ad Hoc Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to…
ENIL is proud to be a member of the INNOSERV consortium, which started its work in February 2012. INNOSERV is a research project for innovative social services and was a response to the FP7-Cooperation call FP7-SSH-2011-3. The call proposed a social platform to be established to suggest innovative research agendas for social services which will…
ENIL is an Associated Partner in the EU funded project DREAM – Disability Rights Expanding Accessibly Markets, led by the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the National University of Ireland, Galway. During the 3-year project, ENIL will host two early stage researchers (ESRs) – Ciara Brennan and Orla Kelly – based at the…
