COTEC Fellowship

The award of Fellowship is the highest honour that COTEC can bestow on one of its professional members in recognition of exceptional service and outstanding contribution to the profession. COTEC will call for and consider nominations biennially (once every two years) except in exceptional circumstances.

	List of Fellows	List of Honorary Fellows
2021	Stephanie Saenger Stephanie Saenger has been a wonderful ambassador for occupational therapy. She is a member of Ergotherapie Nederland, the Dutch Occupational Therapy association, from 1978 onwards. Since that time she has been present at almost every General Assembly of the association. She did an important job in coaching and tutoring occupational therapy students and building on occupational therapy departments. She held important positions as vice president and in several committees in the association and for the Ministry of Health. Stephanie was awarded the only Dutch Occupational Therapy award ‘Astrid Kinébanianprijs’ and since 2018 she is an honorary member of Ergotherapie Nederland. Stephanie has been involved in the international occupational therapy world for more than 20 years, in COTEC, WFOT, ENOTHE and EFPC. She led as the President of COTEC from 2013-2019. Zdeňka Faltýnková Zdeňka Faltýnková is a very respected and well-known expert throughout the Czech Republic. She has dedicated her entire life to working with people with spinal cord injuries and she is active in this area very comprehensively. For many years she has been working with clients as the practicioner, and even with her current workload with other activities, she keep her practice work with people with spinal cord injury as her key interest. She is intensively involved in education, especially in practice training of the students through their fieldworks. She is also involved in the promotional and political activities, where she is an active player in many organizations, meetings and working groups. She constantly support the role of Occupational Therapists within all her activities. and she had a key role in establishing the profession of occupational therapy in the Czech Republic.	André Bürki André has been working for and in the Swiss Association for Occupational Therapist (EVS- ASE) for 17 years. He has given us his entire wealth of experience in association processes and structures, in change processes and in personal counselling situations with a great deal of passion. He had a great gift for facing challenges with a lot of optimism, for putting his heart and soul – as non-occupational therapist – into the ideas and concerns of occupational therapy and for bringing people together. Sometimes André was also too optimistic about his time resources, which is why things sometimes didn’t get done or he sometimes missed an appointment. But it was exactly this optimism, this confidence, this always new search for solutions, that moved us all forward together and strengthened us again and again. André played the national and international network with great skill. Participation in COTEC and WFOT events and his active involvement were always very important to André. He was interested in the developments in the other COTEC Members and often offered his help to the smaller associations and new GA representatives. André offered his knowledge in non-profit management and strategic leadership on a national and international level. He fully committed himself to occupational therapy and wholeheartedly supported its core.

List of Fellows

List of Honorary Fellows

2021

Stephanie Saenger

Stephanie Saenger has been a wonderful ambassador for occupational therapy. She is a member of Ergotherapie Nederland, the Dutch Occupational Therapy association, from 1978 onwards. Since that time she has been present at almost every General Assembly of the association. She did an important job in coaching and tutoring occupational therapy students and building on occupational therapy departments. She held important positions as vice president and in several committees in the association and for the Ministry of Health. Stephanie was awarded the only Dutch Occupational Therapy award ‘Astrid Kinébanianprijs’ and since 2018 she is an honorary member of Ergotherapie Nederland. Stephanie has been involved in the international occupational therapy world for more than 20 years, in COTEC, WFOT, ENOTHE and EFPC. She led as the President of COTEC from 2013-2019.

Zdeňka Faltýnková

Zdeňka Faltýnková is a very respected and well-known expert throughout the Czech Republic. She has dedicated her entire life to working with people with spinal cord injuries and she is active in this area very comprehensively. For many years she has been working with clients as the practicioner, and even with her current workload with other activities, she keep her practice work with people with spinal cord injury as her key interest. She is intensively involved in education, especially in practice training of the students through their fieldworks. She is also involved in the promotional and political activities, where she is an active player in many organizations, meetings and working groups. She constantly support the role of Occupational Therapists within all her activities. and she had a key role in establishing the profession of occupational therapy in the Czech Republic.

André Bürki

André has been working for and in the Swiss Association for Occupational Therapist (EVS- ASE) for 17 years. He has given us his entire wealth of experience in association processes and structures, in change processes and in personal counselling situations with a great deal of passion. He had a great gift for facing challenges with a lot of optimism, for putting his heart and soul – as non-occupational therapist – into the ideas and concerns of occupational therapy and for bringing people together. Sometimes André was also too optimistic about his time resources, which is why things sometimes didn’t get done or he sometimes missed an appointment. But it was exactly this optimism, this confidence, this always new search for solutions, that moved us all forward together and strengthened us again and again. André played the national and international network with great skill. Participation in COTEC and WFOT events and his active involvement were always very important to André. He was interested in the developments in the other COTEC Members and often offered his help to the smaller associations and new GA representatives. André offered his knowledge in non-profit management and strategic leadership on a national and international level. He fully committed himself to occupational therapy and wholeheartedly supported its core.