President:
Prof. Evrim Karadag-Saygi Evrim (Turkiye)
Immediate past president:
Prof. Helena Burger (Slovenia)
Vice President:
Prof. Cecília Varjú (Hungary)
Secretary-General:
Prof. Frederike van Wijck (UK)
Treasurer:
Prof. Susanna Melkas (Finland)
Members:
Prof. Matilde Leonardi (Italy)
Ass. Prof. Marta Supervia Pola (Spain)
Marco Streibelt M.D. (Germany)
The European Forum for Research in Rehabilitation (EFRR) is the major multidisciplinary rehabilitation research forum in Europe. Originally formed in 1983, it has members from all over Europe.
The purpose of EFRR is to advance research and education in biopsychosocial aspects of rehabilitation. The outcomes of such research are implemented and disseminated to improve the provision of social, vocational, health-care, and rehabilitation services and the standards of practice in these services for the benefit of people with disabilities.
In particular, the aims of EFRR are:
To foster an interdisciplinary approach to research based on a biopsychosocial model of health and disability, thus focussing on rehabilitative research in the domains of impairments of body functions and structures, activity limitations and participation restrictions, as well as the identification of environmental barriers and facilitators
To facilitate an exchange of information regarding research into these topics
To encourage the exchange of ideas and the development of collaborative research projects in functioning, disabilities and health. These may concern physical, mental and social-environmental aspects of rehabilitation, including assistive technology, independent living, vocational rehabilitation, and return to work programmes, as well as legal, economic and socio-political aspects of disability
To organise and conduct a two-yearly congress, as well as other activities such as workshops, courses on the topics mentioned above and the creation of networks of professionals working in different fields within the broad spectrum of rehabilitation
Alexandra Szalma
