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Report of the ER-WCPT Workshop on a Common Platform for Physiotherapists is published

Date: 2007-04-26

The European Commission has approved a Directive to clarify and simplify the rules of Recognition of Professional Qualifications in order to facilitate free movement of qualified people among the Member States, particularly in the light of an enlarged European Union.

The Executive Committee of the ER-WCPT has established a Common Platform Task Force in order to explore the feasibility of developing a Common Platform for physiotherapists at European Level.

On Wednesday 24 May 2006, the Task Force on a Common Platform and the Education WG organised a Workshop on Common Platforms and Legislation-Regulation that was held for the Member Organisations of the European Region of WCPT and National Competent Authorities in Sibenik, Croatia.

56 delegates from 29 Member Organisations attended the Workshop, with the Vice President and the Secretary General of the WCPT, the President of the European Network of Physiotherapy in Higher Education (ENPHE), and representatives from national authorities of the following countries: Austria, Cyprus, Poland, Norway and Canada.

Report of the ER-WCPT Workshop on a Common Platform for Physiotherapists is published now. Detailed information you will find in Migration > Common Platform.