[Vocational education of the handicapped in the European Community--experiences from the network of vocational rehabilitation services]

Abstract

Organized cooperation in the field of vocational rehabilitation has been established at EC-level more than fifteen years ago, the first meeting of the community network of rehabilitation centres having taken place on the 20th of October, 1975. This cooperation has been intensified and extended by HELIOS, the second action programme on behalf of disabled persons adopted by the Council of Ministers in April 1988, to continue the efforts started by the initial action programme. In the fields of occupational qualification, languages, and new technologies, "Europe 92" will give rise to new challenges that imperatively ask for closer cooperation among rehabilitation workers in the Community. In the framework of HELIOS, this cooperation has already been started.