Organisation: Introduction

Introduction Charter Board Members Becoming a member Workplans Reports

What is enothe?

The European Network of Occupational Therapy in Higher Education was founded in 1995 within the framework of the European Union on the initiative of COTEC (Council of Occupational Therapists for the European Countries) with financial support from ERASMUS.

ENOTHE is a thematic network, which has been funded by the European Commission, Socrates / Erasmus programme: Thematic Network Projects since 1997. The main aim of a thematic network is to enhance quality and define and develop a European dimension within a given academic discipline, or other issues of common interest, through co-operation between university faculties or departments, academic and/or professional associations, employers and client-organisations. Such co-operation should have a lasting and widespread impact across a wide range of institutions within or between specific discipline areas.

ENOTHE is part of the Archipelago of the Humanistic Thematic Networks, which is formed of 18 Erasmus-Socrates Thematic Networks which deal with different areas and aspects of the Humanistic Arts and Sciences (http://www.archhumannets.net)

General aims of ENOTHE

To unite the European Occupational Therapy Educational Programmes and proposed Programmes (Institutes, Schools, Universities etc.) in order to advance the education and the body of knowledge of occupational therapy
To work with COTEC(http://www.cotec-europe.org) to promote occupational therapy education in Europe

Objectives

To stimulate European standards of occupational therapy education in higher education using WFOT standards and methods of quality assurance in order to reach mutual recognition
To introduce and promote ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) in occupational therapy education
To encourage the development of lifelong education in occupational therapy including the development of joint education/ European programmes
To provide assistance to institutions who wish to start occupational therapy education programmes (eg Central and Eastern European Regions) and to advise on potential resources

Project groups

Project groups have a specified task and work-plan, which are approved by the General Assembly. Over the next few years ENOTHE project groups will address the following themes:

TUNING and quality assurance of occupational therapy education in Europe
Development of the European Dimension in the occupational therapy curriculum
Development of continuing education and research in occupational therapy
Development of (innovative) teaching methods eg. Problem Based Learning (PBL), electronic learning

Conference and workshops group

Aim: to organise and run an annual conference

Student group

Aim: to communicate with occupational students across Europe and to organise an annual workshop