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Inclusion Europe

Ambitions. Rights. Belonging.

20 million people with intellectual disabilities and their families from 39 European countries.

Inclusion Europe is the European voice of 20 million people with intellectual disabilities and their families. We have 82 member organisations in 39 countries in Europe.

- Growing the self-advocacy movement in Europe, for example through the European Platform of Self-Advocates (EPSA)

- Developing easy-to-read standards and spreading easy-to-read throughout Europe

- Advancing supported decision-making in Europe to replace guardianship

04/10/2026

We may be biased but we think it's worth heading to our website right now.
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02/10/2026

What does it really mean to have control over your own life?

For many people with intellectual disabilities and autistic people, the answer still depends on what services, organisations and systems allow.

Who decides where you live, what you do, who supports you?

On 14 October, the Self-Determination Academy brings people together in Brussels and online to talk about how to change that.

Self-advocates, young people, disability organisations and policymakers will look at what helps people make their own choices, and what needs to change.

Here's what's on the programme:

Self-advocates and young people from the Self-Determination Academy share what they experienced in the project, in a session moderated by Soufiane El Amrani.

Ariel Bianucci from the European Commission explains how the EU listens to young people.

Then a question for us, European organisations: how well do we actually listen to autistic people and people with intellectual disabilities?

Freddy Jussien (Inclusion Europe), Loredana Dicsi (European Disability Forum), Kamil Goungor (ENIL), Aurélie Baranger (Autism-Europe), Thomas Bignal (EASPD) and Mari Paz Jiménez Varona (European Down Syndrome Association) discuss.

Ana Albuquerque (Inovat Autismo) and José Miguel Nogueira (ISCTE) present what the project achieved.

Sam Marcus and Lauraine Giacovazzi (AsIAm - Ireland’s Autism Charity) introduce a new guide to help people speak up for themselves.

Nikola Tadić (SUZAH) sums up what we learned in the morning, before the participants move on to talk about what needs to change for better participation and self-determination.

📅 14 October 2026, 09:30–17:00 CEST

📍 Brussels and online

🗣️ In English

Register: https://www.inclusion.eu/making-self-determination-a-reality.-14-october-event-in-brussels-and-online

The event is co-funded by the European Union, Erasmus+ program.

02/10/2026

🎙️ New episode of Inclusion Europe Radio is out now!

What does it mean to be a mother, a doctor, an advocate, a director — and now, the president of Inclusion Europe?

In our latest episode, we talk to Jeanne Nicklas-Faust about her personal and professional journey. She shares what it meant to become a mother to a daughter with a severe intellectual disability, why naming disability matters, and how family life shaped her path.

From volunteering at Lebenshilfe Germany to becoming its director, and now leading Inclusion Europe, Jeanne has seen many changes along the way.

🌬️ The episode is called “Wind of Change” because we also speak about the changes happening in disability policy — and Jeanne’s vision for Inclusion Europe and how the international disability movement can come together - stronger than ever .

Welcome Ms. President!

🎧 Listen to the new episode and hear Jeanne’s story now!

01/10/2026

🖤 Sad day for us all

Joachim Busch, a self-advocate from Germany, has died at the age of 67.

In May this year, Joachim and Soufiane El Amrani made history.
They became the first people with intellectual disabilities ever elected to the Board of the European Disability Forum.
Joachim had only just started that work.

But Joachim had been speaking up for a long time before that.

In Germany, he was part of the self-advocacy group "Jetzt reden wir" of Lebenshilfe Schleswig-Holstein, on the board of Lebenshilfe.
Joachim was also on the German government's Inclusion Advisory Board.

Joachim was very active and enjoyed working on international level.

Joachim went to Geneva to speak for civil society when Germany was reviewed by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Joachim often came to Brussels for the European Day of Persons with Disabilities and other events.
Joachim spoke at INCLUSION INTERNATIONAL World Congresses.

Joachim took part in many of our self-advocacy meetings with the European Platform of Self-Advocates.

Joachim's message was always clear: Inclusion should be normal.

"It was impressive how clear and self-confident he was at the international level and how he campaigned for an inclusive society," said Ulla Schmidt, President of Lebenshilfe.

Besides being a great activist and self-advocate, Joachim was first and foremost a very kind person.
Thank you Joachim.
We will miss you 💔

Our condolences to Joachim's family, friends, and everyone at Lebenshilfe and the German Disability Council.

28/09/2026

‼️Registrations open now‼️

Join us in Brussels and online for the Self-Determination Academy international seminar, where we talk about making self-determination a reality. ✨

🗓️ 14 October
⏰ 09:30 - 17:00 (Brussels time)
📍Brussels and and online

👉Register now on our website inclusion.eu or with the link in our bio.

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24/09/2026

"When a woman with an intellectual disability becomes a leader, she opens a door for many other women." — Maribel Cáceres

Women are already active in our self-advocacy movement. But look at who speaks on the big, visible stages, who represents organisations, who holds leadership positions - we often see more men than women.

At our Hear Our Voices online meeting on women in self-advocacy, we heard from five women who are already leading in their organisations and countries:

Florence Jablonski, president of Nous Aussi in France and a local councillor.

Ellis Jongerius, a director at LFB in the Netherlands, taking part in decisions on policy, finances and the organisation's work.

Lucy McKee, Membership Ambassador with Enable, Scotland and co-chair of its National Self-Advocacy Forum.

Therese Wappsell, information officer at FUB in Sweden, active in board meetings, advocacy and work with public authorities.

Maribel Cáceres, vice-president of Plena inclusión, Spain.

Their journeys are different. But they show other women what is possible. Seeing another woman speaking, deciding and leading can make someone else think: Maybe I can do that too.

Here's what women self-advocates told us during the event:

✅ Give women opportunities - don't always invite the same people to speak.

✅ Create ways to leadership - nobody is born knowing how to lead.

✅ Provide the right support - from someone a woman trusts and chooses.

✅ Make women leaders visible.

✅ Give women real power - not just a place in the room, a place where decisions are made.

✅ And when it's a job, pay for it.

We should not wait for women to somehow "become ready" for the position of power in organisations. It is our job to open doors, remove barriers and create opportunities.

Women with intellectual disabilities do not only need to be heard. We need the power to decide, represent and lead.

22/09/2026

Imagine needing support to live your life - and being sent, instead, to a place far away from your family, a place chosen decades ago because the building was empty, not because it was right for you.

That's the reality for people with intellectual disabilities in Prague: 8 in 10 are placed outside the city, some more than four hours away by public transport.

That’s why we joined Společnost pro podporu lidí s mentálním postižením v ČR, z. s. and the Forum for Human Rights in filing a legal complaint against Czechia with the Council of Europe, asking it to recognise this as discrimination – and to require Czechia to build the community support that would let people stay close to the people they love.

"It is unacceptable that the demand for community services that enable people with disabilities to live with dignity is still not being met." — Camille Latimier, Director, Inclusion Czech Republic

"Czech law still fails to recognise segregation for what it is. Our complaint seeks to change that." — Maroš Matiaško, Forum for Human Rights

"Segregating people in large institutions away from their families harms their social lives and puts them at risk of neglect and abuse. Czechia must end segregation of people with intellectual disabilities — whether they are from Prague or anywhere else in the country." — Milan Šveřepa, Inclusion Europe Chief Executive

Together, for full rights and inclusion.

17/09/2026

📣 Women in self-advocacy speak out!

Hear Our Voices! is having an online event. And you don't want to miss it!

Swipe to find out what it's about

Register now → inclusion.eu

15/09/2026

Save the date!

Women with intellectual disabilities are speaking up, representing, and leading change across Europe.

At our next Hear Our Voices, we want to look at the place of women in our movement.
We want to discuss what we can do to make sure more women have opportunities to participate, speak up and lead.

Join the conversation!
🗓️ 22 September
⏰ 10:00 - 13:00 (Brussels time)
📍Online

27/08/2026

“I think if you better understand the situation that they are in, you can better help and support them”

The Young Families project aims to help people better understand the experiences of parents and siblings of children with intellectual disabilities.

It shows why families need support too.

Parents and siblings know what support actually helps and what support is missing.

When listen to them, we can have better conversations and create real change to support whole families.

Read more at www.inclusion.eu

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