Visible and valued occupational therapists throughout Europe!

COTEC was established in 1986 with the purpose of co-ordinating the views of the National Associations of Occupational Therapy. The aim of COTEC is to enable National Associations of Occupational Therapists in Europe to work together to develop, harmonise and improve standards of professional practice and education, as well as advance the theory of Occupational Therapy throughout Europe.

COTEC is the European organization for all Occupational Therapists through their National Associations, with the purpose of promoting and supporting mobility of individuals within Europe and increasing visibility of the profession.

COTEC represents 27 European Occupational Therapy Associations and more than 120,000 Occupational Therapists.

A Joint Statement Issued:

COTEC and the European Region of the World Confederation of Physical Therapy (ER-WCPT) have issued a joint statement, outlining and promoting their complementary roles in the promotion of Active Ageing

Read the statement here

“Value of occupational therapy– about evidence-based occupational therapy”

This study circle folder can now be downloaded as a pdf file under Professional Issues / Evidence Based Practice. The document has been written by two Swedish occupational therapists who are university lecturers in occupational therapy; Anitha Alnervik (MSc) and Irene Linddahl (Licentiate of Ph).

To celebrate COTEC 25 years 1986-2011

“COTEC has announced a Picture Poster Competition with the theme “OT and Active and Healthy Ageing” The Poster competition acknowledges both the 25^th

Anniversary of the Council of Occupational Therapists for the European

Countries, COTEC, in 2011 and the European Year of Active and Healthy

Ageing in 2012.” read more

COTEC-ENOTHE joint Congress 2016

Competitive bids were invited to host the First Joint COTEC-ENOTHE Congress.

The strong winning bid was received from the Irish Occupational Therapy Association in conjunction with the University of Galway.

On behalf of COTEC we would like to congratulate the Irish OT Association, and will look forward to working closely with them to prepare for a ground-breaking and highly successful COTEC- ENOTHE congress in 2016 in Galway!

2011 is the European Year for Volunteering.

“2011 has been declared by the European Commission “ European Year of Volunteering (EYV)”. One of COTEC´s aims is to keep contact with developments within the European Union in order to disseminate information and to develop strategies concerning relevant labor market and other professional topics to the member associations. Therefore, in the context of this aim, we would like to inform you about this year’s motto and encourage you to take initiative in promoting this idea through activities of your national associations – thus make Occupational Therapy more known and visible in your country.” read more

See COTEC's Position Statement on Volunteering

COTECPositionPaper-EuropeanYearofVolunteering2011.pdf

Summary of the Profession 2011

The summary of the Profession is a COTEC document compiled and updated each year according to the information obtained from the National Associations of occupational therapists throughout Europe. Its purpose is to provide information on occupational therapy Europe -wide in order to integrate the profile of occupational therapy in European countries, and facilitate the mobility of occupational therapists across Europe.

10.04.2012.

3.04.2012.

22.03.2012.

A Joint Statement Issued: