ELSITO

ELSITO (Empowering Learning for Social Inclusion) is a learning partnership involving the following institutions and organizations:

• Hellenic Association of Occupational Therapists, Greece
• Actenz, GGZ in Geest partner VUmc, The Netherlands
• Odisee (ex-Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel), Belgium

The group has received funding as a Grundtvig Learning Partnership under the Life Long Learning Programme of the EU for the period 209-2011. The aim of the partnership is to exchange good practice and to develop community based projects in partnership with persons from vulnerable social groups (persons experiencing mental health problems, immigrants and refugees), empowering their  active inclusion and recovery of citizenship through economic, social, cultural and civic occupations, based on their learning and on the education of society. Service users, occupational therapist educators, practitioners and students, are actively involved in the partnership. The partnership also aims to build up a network across Europe of similar projects in order to exchange experiences, disseminate good practice to all stakeholders and to further the development of community based projects that promote social inclusion for all vulnerable groups through occupation.