Occupational Therapy Europe, OT-Europe, Executive consists of the Presidents/Chairs and Vice Presidents/Vice Chairs of the three branches - COTEC, ENOTHE and ROTOS. The Executive has an on-line meeting every month.
Important agenda items in the past months have been the preparing of the second Strategic Plan for the five-year period 2026 - 2030. This was recently presented to COTEC GA representatives during the Governance day and representatives had the opportunity to comment and ask questions on OT-Europe work.
Another current topic is the planning of the 2nd OT-Europe Congress and the location and dates will be published later in the year.
OT-Europe has for years had a representative in the European Forum for Primary Care, EFPC, Advisory Board. The previous representative, Sandra Rowan from the UK, left the position this year and Klaus Gasperl-Krachler was proposed as her replacement, and was elected at the EFPC Annual meeting in September. Klaus is an Occupational Therapist and lecturer from Austria.On behalf of OT-Europe Sandra and Klaus prepared a workshop that was held by Klaus at the EFPC conference. COTEC Vice President Yara Peterko supported Sandra and Klaus in the workshop planning phase. The title was Integrating Occupational Therapy into Primary Care: Unlocking Interdisciplinary Potential. They reported that especially general practitioners attended the workshop, all leaving with a plan on how to integrate Occupational Therapists in primary care initiatives.