ENOTHE is a thematic network, which has been funded by the European Commission, SOCRATES Programme since 1997.

Occupational therapy is a profession concerned with promoting health and well being through occupation. The primary goal of occupational therapy is to enable people to participate in the activities of everyday life. Occupational therapists achieve this outcome by enabling people to do things that will enhance their ability to participate or by modifying the environment to better support participation.(WFOT, 2004)

GENERAL AIMS OF ENOTHE
• To enable European Occupational Therapy Educational Institutes, professional Associations and other stakeholders to liaise on Occupational Therapy in order to develop, harmonise and improve standards of professional practice and education as well as advance the body of knowledge of Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science throughout Europe.
• To facilitate through high quality occupational therapy education and practice participation of persons with disabilities in an enlarged 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 as an European Accumulation 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 workplan, 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

PUBLICATIONS
The following publications are available from
ENOTHE (2000):
• Occupational Therapy Education in Europe: an exploration
• Occupational Therapy Education in Europe: curriculum guidelines (EN, FR, DE, ES, IT)
• Occupational Therapy in Europe: learning from each other (contains case reviews, guidelines for shared fi nal projects and European courses EN, FR, DE) (2004)
• Occupational Therapy Education in Europe: quality enhancement – international peer review
• Occupational Therapy Education in Europe: approaches to teaching and learning ´practical ´ occupational therapy skills
• Occupational Therapy Education in Europe: PBL stories and signposts, towards a problem based learning oriented curriculum (EN, DE)
• Occupational Therapy in Europe: an intercultural experience (Internet course on CD-ROM)

ENOTHE office
Hogeschool van Amsterdam
Postbus 2557
1000 CN Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: 00 31 20 652 1224
Fax: 00 31 20 652 1399
Email: j.e.van.bruggen@hva.nl
Web site: www.enothe.hva.nl