| |  | Jane Horsewell (Denmark), Urs Styger (Switzerland),
Pekka Hattinen (Finland), Adrian O'Donnell (Scotland)
and Daniel Joggi (Switzweland) |
The website for ESCIF www.escif.org is now up and running. This website contains vision, mission and details of all the 17 organisations that are members of ESCIF and there is also a picture gallery from the conferences held in Nottwil, Switzerland. The website contains details of how to contact the organisation.
The European Spinal Cord Federation was founded on 31st March 2006 in Nottwil, Switzerland and is an umbrella organisation of national self-help spinal cord injury (SCI) organisations to safeguard and promote the interests of people with SCI. The purpose is as follows:
1. The formation of closer relationships between the individual national SCI parent organisations.
2. The co-operation in relation to questions of integration into society.
3. The exchange of information through congresses, interactive platforms, etc.
4. The internal and external formation of opinion relating to transactional issues of SCI.
5. The safeguarding of the interests of the national parent SCI organisations in relation to other organisations or EU.
6. The Federation is politically and religiously neutral. The Federation is registered in Switzerland although the membership will predominantly be made of states from the EU.
Participating countries are Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, England & Wales, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden.
The Statutes and Executive agreed were agreed at this second European congress. The elected members were as follows:-
President - Dr Daniel Joggi (Switzerland)
Vice President - Jane Horsewell (Denmark)
Treasurer - Adrian O’Donnell (Scotland)
Board Member - Pekka Hatinen (Finland)
Board Member - Ester Peris Valle (Spain)
Secretary - Urs Styger (Switzerland)
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Schweizer Paraplegiker-Vereinigung | | | | | DENMARK
Rygmarvsskadede i Danmark
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Berufsgenossenschaftlichen Unfallkrankenhaus Hamburg | | | | | GERMANY
Fordergemeinschaft der Querschnittgelahmten in Deutschland | | | | | | | GREECE
Paraplegics Association of Greece | | | | | | | IRELAND
Spinal Injuries Ireland | | | | | | | HOLLAND
Dwarslaesie Organisatie Nederland | | | | | AUSTRIA
Verband der Querschnittgelähmten Österreichs | | | | | FINLAND
Finnish Association of People with Mobility Disabilities | | | | | | | SPAIN
Asociacion de Lesionados Medulares | | | | | ITALY
Federazione Associazioni Italiane Para-tetraplegici | | | | | LITHUANIA
| | | | | CROATIA
Hrvatska udruga paraplegičara i tetraplegičara
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The Swedish Association of Survivors of Traffic Accidents and Polio | | | | | SLOVENIA
Zveza Paraplegikov Slovenije
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Spinal Injuries Scotland | | | | | | | ENGLAND
Spinal Injuries Association |
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