19952006 ENOTHE

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Hanneke van Bruggen European Network of
Occupational Therapy in Higher Education

• 1995-2006 ENOTHE
• 10 Golden Rules for a Successful
• Thematic Network
• Rational
• Policy
• Strategy - proactive
• Management and Organisation Structure
• Flexibility, Development and Innovation
• Research
• Dissemination
• Links with Professionals
• ,, Industries/ Employers
• ,, Society/ Clients

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Increase of Members
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1. Rational

• Analysis of the needs of the members
• Analysis of the need and the position of the
  profession in Europe
• Analysis of the need and position of the
  education in Europe

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• Foundation of ENOTHE in
• Aalborg (DK) with a small grant
• from ERASMUS (EC)
• General aims of ENOTHE
• To unite the European OT
  
• Educational Programmes in
• order to advance the knowledge
• of OT
• To work with COTEC
• (professional associations) to
• promote OT education in
• Europe
• Start with 21 members (Institutes)
• From 10 different countries

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2.Policy

• Improve quality in education and practice by
  promoting at least two cycle education under
  higher education
• Develop the European dimension in the profession
• Facilitate and support enlargement in Europe

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• 2nd ENOTHE meeting- 1996
• Priorities set by the general Assembly
• Development of a European Master
• Course in Occupational Therapy
• Create condition for a Thematic
• Network under Socrates
• Extention of the ENOTHE management (with a
  representative of East and Central Europe)
• Extention with a TEMPUS project in the Charles
  University in Prague

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3. Pro-active

• Curriculum framework
• Defining
• Common philosophy for the profession and
  education
• Learning outcomes (competences)
• ECTS based
• Fieldwork
• Quality Assurance

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• 3rd ENOTHE meeting
• Approval of ENOTHE as Thematic
• Network (Socrates)
• Installation of 4 working groups
• 1 Survey of OT Education in Europe
• Research and development of the European
  Dimension in OT
• (developing case studies)
• 3 Conference and workshops
• Development of an approved common curriculum
  framework
• First students participation

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First student participation
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4. Management and organisation structure

• Management linked to professional association and
  linked to the project groups
• Clear work plans (including outcomes and
  methodology) and rules for reports for the
  project groups
• Involvement of all the members in feedback
• Active Involvement of Students
• Links to other networks
• A permanent office, where people respond to the
  questions

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• Launching the ENOTHE Web-site
• Development of a Student Network
• Continuing the working groups
• Collaboration with other networks
  (Ethics/Computing)

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Increase of the Student Group
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5.Flexibility, Development and Innovation

• Have always space for new developments in your
  annual programme and in the budget
• Follow EU politics in your professional area
  (health and safety) and academic area

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• 1999- February
• Prague, CZ, meeting on
• Development of OT education in
• the Eastern and Central region of
• Europe
• 5th ENOTHE meeting in November Ljubljana, SI
• Philosophy of OT
• Common curriculum framework
• WHO/priorities in South-eastern
• European region
• OT in a refugee project in
• Kosovo

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6. Research

• Make links with the 7th framework networks and
  themes
• Collaborate in Archipelagos (together you are
  stronger than on your own

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• 2000
• 6th ENOTHE meeting in Paris, FR
• What is Occupational Science?
• Three Publications
• 1 OT Education in Europe an exploration
• 2 OT Education in Europe curriculum guidelines
• 3 OT in Europe learning from each other

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7. Dissemination

• Widely dissemination of our products and get them
  validated by professional bodies, clients etc. is
  part of the success and disseminate them beyond
  your own discipline (f.i. PT)
• Trying to implement the products and giving
  support for that is important as well
• ENOTHE applied twice successful for a
  dissemination project

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• 2001
• April Warsaw, PL meeting on
• Follow up on Developments in
• OT in East and Central Europe
• ENOTHE curriculum guidelines
• 7th ENOTHE meeting in November in Amsterdam, NL,
  in collaboration with ENPHE (Physiotherapy
  Network)
• Focus on multidisciplinary
• education
• Evidence based practice and ICF
• Strategies to implement those
• topics in health care education

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• 2002 May Felix Spa, RO meeting
• The needs for OT in Romania
• Development of a strategic plan
• 8th ENOTHE meeting in November Estoril, PT
• Focus on Occupational Science
• Discussions on occupational
• nature, challenges and
• occupation as enabler
• Terminology
• International peer review
• European Dimension internet-
• based collaborative learning
• Teaching practice media/ skills
• PBL day- Principles of learning
• as applied to problem-based
• learning

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8. Linking with client groups

• Since the European year for disability we made
  links with several disability organisations

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• 2003, June Vilnius, LT meeting
• How can OT education in
• Lithuania be harmonised?
• 9th ENOTHE meeting in November in Prague, CZ
• Focus on Occupational Justice
• Everyday ethical, moral, civic
• issues for an inclusive world
• European Year of People with
• Disabilities
• Different ways in PBL education
• TUNING in OT started
• Approval of the Joint Action Project
• FaPA of Persons with disabilities in an enlarged
  Europe (RO, BG and HU)
• Approval of the TEMPUS Project Developing OT in
  Armenia and Georgia

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9-10. Linking with professionals and employers

• Once in the 4 years we combine the ENOTHE meeting
  with the European congress
• In the TUNING process we collaborate closely with
  professionals and employers

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• 2004, 10th ENOTHE meeting in Athens, GR
• Focus on the TUNING process
• Specific competences
• Strengthening of the cooperation
• with COTEC
• Student workshops Play and
• Games in OT
• Launching
• A website on terminology
• Internet self-study package on OS
• 3 publications and a CD-Rom

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• 2005 June first teacher training course in
  Vilnius, Lithuania, on
• Curriculum development,
• competences and project
• development
• 10 Years Celebration Meeting in September in
  Vienna, AT
• . TUNING occupational therapy
• education in Europe
• . Learning from the opportunities
• and barriers of Europe
• . European Year of Citizenship
• through Education
• Launching the first student CD-Rom
• Perspective on traditional European games in OT

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Increase of Members
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Third Thematic Network Approved

• Comment of expert from Brussels
• It is obvious that the societal demand is great
  for developping an academic based discipline as
  Occupational Therapy with impact on a European
  scale

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• Wishing HENRE 2 much success and fruitful
  discussions over the next two days
• Thank you for your attention