The European Forum for Research in Rehabilitation (for short EFRR) will host an event next year. The event will be on 6-9 May 2015 in Helsinki. Helsinki is a city in Finland. EFRR is an organisation that does research to support ill people or people with disabilities. At the event, lots of people will talk about supporting people with disabilities. The research that EFRR does will help improve the services that people with intellectual disabilities might use. You can read about the event here. |
The European Forum for Research in Rehabilitation (EFRR) has announced that it will host its 13th Annual Congress at the Marina Congress Center in Helsinki, Finland on 6-9 May 2015.
The congress will be organised by The Society for Rehabilitation Research and Development (SRRD) and EFFR and will include input from a number of stakeholders across the various different fields comprising rehabilitation research – from scientific to practical research.
The theme of the 2015 event will be “Being, Doing, Participating,” a reference to the World Health Organisation’s International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health.
The President-Elect of the congress is Professor Aarne Ylinen, MD, of the University of Helsinki and the Chair of the Scientific Committee will be Professor Sven Uno Marnetoft, PHD, of the Mid Sweden University, whose institutions are among those cooperating in the organisation of the event.
To find out more about the Annual Congress, you can visit the event’s website here.
Alternatively, you can read more about EFRR here.
EFFR is the major multidisciplinary rehabilitation research forum in Europe. Its purpose is to advance research and education in biopsychosocial aspects of rehabilitation.