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Legal statement
1. Procedures for selection of members of Council of the EFRR
The membership of the Council are set out according to the constitution. Members of Council are elected by participants of EFFR Congress, which is held every two years.
The Secretary of Council will keep records of membership and will notify the President and members of Council when their period of office expires.
Council will agree the number of vacancies. At least 4 months prior to the Congress, the Secretary will circulate a call for nominations for new members on the EFRR website.
Members of the EFRR may submit names of candidates to be considered for membership of Council. This must be accompanied by a letter and resume from the candidate indicating that they are willing to stand.
Candidates must be members of EFFR and be a recognized health care practitioner, rehabilitation counselor, case manager or social worker working in the rehabilitation field.
The Secretary will circulate details of eligible candidates at least 2 weeks prior to Congress.
Voting for candidates will take place in the General Assembly. Only those can vote who participate at the Assembly.
The Assembly will be Chaired by the President or Vice President.
Only members of the EFRR will be eligible to vote and there must be a minimum of 50 members present for the meeting to be quorate.
Voting shall be overseen by 3 scrutinisers, two of whom will be chosen at random from the membership by the Chairman.
Candidates must be present and will be expected to speak in support of their application.
If the number of candidates is less than or equal to the number vacancies, then voting can take place by a show of hands.
If the number of candidates exceeds the number of places, the Secretary shall prepare voting slips.
There are no proxy votes and one slip will be given to each person.
Members will make their choices on the slip and write on their registration number.
The scrutinisers will collect the slips and will count, tabulate and sign off a sheet recording the number of votes for each candidate. This will be presented to the Chair who will announce the results to the General Assembly.
If the meeting is not quorate, or there are unfilled vacancies, the Council may co-opt members. However these must stand down at the next General Assembly and offer themselves for re-election.
2. Membership of the EFRR
Membership of the EFRR is open to all professionals from the fields of medicine, vocational and educational rehabilitation, social and psychosocial rehabilitation or any other field of rehabilitation.
Active Member: All professionals from the fields of rehabilitation medicine, vocational and educational rehabilitation, social and psychosocial rehabilitation or any other field of rehabilitation who live in European countries, can be a candidate for being an active member. After Council approval and the payment of membership fee, they become an active member. The active members have the right to vote in the General Assembly and can be elected as a Council Member.
Associate Member: Associate members have all rights and obligations as active members, except that they will not have the right to vote in the Assembly and they are not able to stand as candidates for Council Member. They will have to pay a membership fee.
Membership of the EFRR is by:
Submission of the application form to the EFRR Council and payment of the membership fee
Submission of a membership form while registering for an EFRR Congress, EFRR sponsored scientific meeting or EFRR sponsored training event. In this case, the organiser will invite non-members to apply for membership and when they register for the event will pass on the membership fee to the EFRR.
Membership will last till the next congress. If the member participates in a subsequent EFRR congress, membership will be automatically renewed. If the member has not participated, but wants to be member, has to transfer the membership fee for the following two years. If payment is not received within 3 months their membership is cancelled and the candidate will need to reapply.
The Council of the EFRR will review all applications for membership (individually or as a block). New members will be eligible to attend and vote at the General Assembly held at the EFRR Congress as soon as their applications have been approved by the Council.
The Treasurer of the EFRR will be responsible for receiving payments and the Secretary of the EFRR is responsible for official register of Members.
Notes on membership fees:
The membership fee will be 10 Euro/year.
Organisers of EFRR Congress, EFRR sponsored scientific meeting or EFRR sponsored training events will agree to transfer 20 Euro to the EFRR for each delegate regardless if a participant applies to become a member of the EFRR or not.
3. Organization of the European Forum for Rehabilitation Research Congress
Membership of the EFRR is open to all professionals from the fields of medicine, vocational and educational rehabilitation, social and psychosocial rehabilitation or any other field of rehabilitation.
- Applications from nationally recognised Institutions who wish to organize an EFRR Congress must be sent to the EFRR Secretary at least 30 months before the date of the Congress. This should include an outline business plan for the meeting. The Council will make a decision on the venue no later than 26 months in advance; this will allow the EFRR Council to announce the date and venue at the previous Congress.
- The Congress organizer (CO) may be nationally recognised Scientific Institutions, Rehabilitation Societies, or University Departments.
- The CO may employ or subcontract a Professional or Commercial Organisation to support or run the meeting, however, it is the CO who holds the contract with EFRR and undertakes to fulfil all necessary responsibilities for organisation of the Congress.
- The Council will nominate members of the Congress Scientific Committee and approve the list of scientific topics, in consultation with the CO.
- The Council agrees to provide reasonable support to the CO, this includes promotion of the Congress and contact details of EFRR members for the purposes of promotion of the Congress.
- The Council of EFRR (represented by the President) and the CO will agree a written contract to deliver the Congress.
This will include:
– A business plan for approval by the EFRR Council, at least 12 months before the date of the Congress.
– An undertaking by the CO to organize a congress with appropriate scientific content that will further the aims and promote the work of the EFRR.
– To hold the Congress at the agreed date and venue.
– To nominate a local organising committee for approved by the EFRR Council
– The final programme will be approved by the Scientific Committee.
– Agreed registration fees. These will be set by the CO following consultation with the EFRR Council. The CO may make the final decision, given that the CO will carry the financial risk.
– The CO, in liaison with the EFRR Secretary and President, will maintain a Congress website from at least 18 months prior to the date of the Congress.
– The CO will invite the Council members to the venue for a preparation visit at least one year before the date of the Congress. Costs, apart for travel, are covered by the CO.
– The costs of running the Congress must be met by the CO, the EFRR accepts no responsibility for any financial loss by CO in connection with the running of the conference.
– The CO undertakes to provide the EFRR with names and contact details of delegates and to transfer to the EFFR nominated bank account, 20 Euro per participant within one month of the end of the Congress. Any residual profit from the organisation of the Congress may be retained by the CO.
– The abstracts of the Congress will be published as a Supplement of the International Journal of Rehabilitation Research. The costs of this publication should be covered by the CO.
– In case of legal debates the Finnish law should be taken into consideration, because the EFRR was registered in Finland.
1. Name and registered office of the association
1.1 The association shall be called the European Forum for Research in Rehabilitation. The unofficial abbreviation EFRR shall be used to refer to the association.
1.2 The registered office of the association shall be in Helsinki.
2. The object and nature of operations of the association
The object of the association is to promote, for the public benefit, all education and research concerning the rehabilitation of people with disabilities, and to distribute any useful results obtained from such research.
The association particularly aims at
a) promoting a biopsychosocial and multidisciplinary approach in the field of research focusing on the consequences of various health conditions, and the interaction of such consequences and the environment from the viewpoint of an individual and the society. The multidisciplinary nature of the operations is an essential foundation of the association, enabling participation of rehabilitation research experts from the fields of medicine, vocational and educational rehabilitation, social and psychosocial rehabilitation or any other field of rehabilitation;
b) promoting the exchange of research results in these areas;
c) promoting the exchange of ideas and the development of cooperation projects in the field of rehabilitation research.
In order to realize these objects, the company shall
a) regularly organize European congresses in the member states,
b) organize workshops on special subject areas,
c) organize meetings, seminars, training and other similar activities,
d) provide information services and issue publications, and
e) cooperate with other similar organizations in the field.
3. Members and membership fees
An individual who accepts the object of the association can be admitted into membership. Members are accepted by the Council of the association based on an application. The annual membership fee will be determined by the annual meeting based on a proposal by the Council.
4. Meetings of the association
The annual meeting of the association will be held annually between January and May, on the date set by the Council. An extraordinary meeting shall be held when so decided by a meeting of the association, or when the Council deems it necessary, or when a minimum of one tenth (1/10) of the members entitled to vote request it from the Council in writing and for a specified purpose.
When the Council so decides, the meeting can be participated in by post or through a data communication connection or other technical medium during the meeting or before the meeting.
In meetings of the association, each member shall have one vote.
The opinion that has the support of more than half of the votes cast will be recorded as the decision of the meeting, unless otherwise determined in the rules of the association. If the vote is tied, the chairperson of the meeting shall have the casting vote; elections, however, are decided by lot.
The vote is conducted as a show of hands, unless the chairperson of the meeting requests a secret ballot. A secret ballot is executed as defined by the chairperson.
5. Calling a meeting of the association
The Council shall call a meeting of the association for the minimum of 7 days before the meeting by a letter posted to the members or by e-mail.
6. Annual meeting
The annual meeting of the association shall discuss the following items:
1. Opening of the meeting
2. Election of a chairperson, secretary, two examiners of the minutes and, when necessary, two vote counters.
3. Recording the presence of quorum and the legality of the meeting.
4. Approval of the agenda.
5. Presentation of the financial accounts, annual report and the report of the auditors of the accounts or operations for the year.
6. Adoption of the financial accounts and the discharge from liability of the members of the Council and other persons accountable.
7. Adoption of the action plan, budget and the membership fee.
8. Every two years, election of the chairperson and members of the Council.
9. Election of one or two auditors of operations and deputy auditors of operations, or one or two auditors of accounts and deputy auditors of accounts.
10. Processing of other items listed in the invitation to the meeting.
If a member of the association wishes to add an item to the agenda of the annual meeting, he or she must send written notice of the item early enough that the item can be included in the invitation to the meeting.
7. Council
The operations of the association are managed by a Council composed of the president and a minimum of four (4) and a maximum of nine (9) members elected at the annual meeting. In its composition, the Council must observe, as far as possible, the multidisciplinary and international nature of the association. The members of the Council should be elected from different states. The Council’s term of office is two years. The Council elects a vice-president from among its members and a secretary, treasurer and other necessary officers from among its members or from the outside of the Council. The President or, when he or she is prevented, the vice-president calls the meetings of the Council when he or she deems it necessary or when requested by the minimum of half of the members of the Council. The Council is quorate when at least half of its members, including the president or vice-president, are present. Votes are decided by a simple majority. If the vote is tied, the president shall have the casting vote; elections, however, are decided by lot. A meeting by e-mail is possible if all members of the Council agree to this.
8. Scientific journal
The official journal of the association is called the International Journal of Rehabilitation Research.
9. Amending the rules and dissolving the association
Decisions on amendments to rules and the dissolution of the association shall be made in a meeting of the association with a minimum of three-fourths (3/4) of the votes cast. The invitation to the meeting must include a mention of an amendment to the rules or the dissolution of the association. When the association is dissolved, the assets of the association shall be used to promote the object of the association in a way determined by the meeting that decides on the dissolution. Should the association be abolished, the assets shall be used for the same purpose. The association shall comply with the provisions of the Finnish Associations Act.
10. Accounting period and audit of accounts
The accounting period of the association shall equal the calendar year. Financial accounts with the necessary documents, and the annual report of the Council, shall be submitted to the auditors of operations or accounts one month before the annual meeting at the latest. The auditors of operations or the accounts shall give their written statements to the Council no later than two weeks before the annual meeting.
11. Signatories for the association
The persons authorized to sign for the association include the president, the vice-president, the secretary and the treasurer, each alone.
Changes in the constitution proposed by the EFRR Council and approved in the General Annual Meeting of EFRR on 24.09.2021
§7 and §11 The term “chairperson” is replaced with the term “president” and the term “vice-chairperson” is replaced with “vice-president” of EFRR.
The new EFRR Council election was done at the General Assembly of EFRR, during the EFRR Congress on November 2-5, 2023. The present active members unanimously elected the new EFRR council members.
According to the EFRR constitution, each EFRR active member who is a recognized health care practitioner, rehabilitation counsellor, case manager or social worker working in the rehabilitation field was eligible to be nominated as council member. Prior to the elections, any active EFRR Members was kindly requested to nominate candidates for membership in the EFRR Council. Call for nominations were circulated through membership 7 August 2023 and the deadline for nominations was 19.10.2023 (2 weeks before the congress). Each proposed candidate submitted a short resume and a letter of interest indicating that the candidate is willing to stand. The list of candidates that were eligible to stand as well as their resume was circulated through the EFRR membership prior to the General Assembly.
Assembly of EFRR 2023
Date: Friday 3rd November 2023, 14:30-16:00 pm
Site: Royal Seginus Hotel, Antalya
Assembly of EFRR 2021
Date: 24.09.2021
Location: Online
Minutes of AGM on 24.09.2021 in Ljubljana.
Presentation: EFRR General Assembly 2021, Ljubljana
Assembly of EFRR 2019
Date: Tuesday 16th April 2019, 12.45 – 13.45 p.m.
Site: Saal Berlin 1, Maritim Hotel, Berlin, Germany
Download the presentation and the minutes of EFRR Assembly 2019 in Berlin
EFRR AGM 2019 in Berlin, Germany
Minutes of EFRR AGM 2019, Berlin, Germany
Assembly of EFRR 2017
Date: Friday 27th May 2017, 12.15 – 13.45 p.m.
Site: GCU, Room W011, Glasgow
Download the presentation and the minutes of EFRR Assembly 2017 in Glasgow
EFRR AGM Presentation 2017 in Glasgow
Minutes of AGM 2017 in Glasgow
Assembly of EFRR 2015
Date: 08 May 2015, 12.30 p.m.
Site: Hall Europaea of Marina Congress Center, Helsinki, Finland
Assembly of EFRR 2014
Date: 23 May 2014, 02.00 p.m.
Site: Marmara University School of Medicine, Department of PM&R, Ust Kaynarca Istanbul, Turkey
Assembly of EFRR 2013
Date: 13 Sept 2013, 12.30 p.m.
Site: Main Hall at Harbiye Military Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Assembly of EFRR 2013
Date: 8 April 2013, Monday 1. p.m.
Site: Barbaros Hall at Harbiye Military Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Members of the EFRR Council
Prof. Cecília Varjú MD, PhD
EFRR President
Department of Rheumatology, Immunology and Rehabilitation Medicine
Clinic Centre,
University of Pécs,
Budapest, Hungary
MEMBERS OF EFRR COUNCIL
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Prof. Frederike van Wijck
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Prof. Karadag‐Saygi Evrim |
Prof. Susanna Melkas MD, PhD
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Assoc. Prof. Peter Takáč, MD, PhD
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Ass. Prof. Marta Supervia Pola, MD
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Ass. Prof. Lea Šuc, PhD., MSc., OT
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Dr. Marco Streibelt
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FORMER MEMBERS OF EFRR COUNCIL
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Prof. Helena Burger MD, PhD
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Prof. Matilde Leonardi
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The official Journal of European Forum for Research in Rehabilitation is The International Journal of Rehabilitation Research (www.intjrehabilres.com).
Editor-in-Chief
Dobrivoje S. Stokic, M.D., D.Sc.
Methodist Rehabilitation Center
Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Email:
AIMS AND SCOPE
The International Journal of Rehabilitation Research is a quarterly, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary forum for the publication of clinically relevant and applicable research into functioning, disability and contextual factors experienced by persons of all ages. Areas of interest include rehabilitation of persons with physical, cognitive and developmental conditions; measurement of functioning and disability; rehabilitation technology; vocational rehabilitation; consumer, economic and sociopolitical aspects of functioning, disability and contextual factors.
The journal welcomes submissions from around the world. Submitted articles undergo a preliminary review by the editor. Some articles may be returned to authors without further consideration. Those being considered for publication will undergo further assessment and peer-review by the editors and external reviewers.
2-Year Impact Factor (2020): 1.7
The journal content and information for authors are available at www.intjrehabilres.com.
Authors are required to submit their manuscripts through a web portal at ijrr.edmgr.com
The EFRR members can get more information from the EFRR Council member responsible for contacts with the journal, Evrim Karadag-Saygi M.D. (
An individual who accepts the object of the association can be admitted into membership. Members are accepted by the Council of the association based on an application. The annual membership fee will be determined by the annual meeting based on a proposal by the Council.
Active Member: All professionals from the fields of rehabilitation medicine, vocational and educational rehabilitation, social and psychosocial rehabilitation or any other field of rehabilitation who live in European countries, can be a candidate for being an active member. After Council approval and the payment of membership fee, they become an active member. The active members have the right to vote in the General Assembly and can be elected as a Council Member.
Associate Member: Associate members have all rights and obligations as active members, except that they will not have the right to vote in the Assembly and they are not able to stand as candidates for Council Member. They will have to pay a membership fee.
HOW TO JOIN:
In order to apply for membership you should download the form and send it out per e-mail to
By submitting the Membership Application Form, you agree that you have read and accepted the EFRR Data Protection Regulation Policy (EFRR Data Protection Regulation Policy).
Please be aware that after your membership application is approved by the EFRR Council, you should pay the membership fee of 20€ in the following account. Only after the payment has reached EFRR, you are officially EFRR member.
Bank name: OP (Helsinki, Finland)
BIC (SWIFT): OKOYFIHH
Account number: FI 90 5720 9920 0957 09