{"id":50201,"date":"2025-04-04T12:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T10:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=50201"},"modified":"2025-04-07T17:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T15:05:20","slug":"towards-a-common-approach-for-autism-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/fr\/event\/towards-a-common-approach-for-autism-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Towards a common approach for autism in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>When: 23 April 2025, 15.00 &#8211; 17.00<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Where: European Parliament room JAN6Q1, Brussels<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In September 2024, the European Commission President announced a commitment to work towards a \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/commission.europa.eu\/document\/download\/b1817a1b-e62e-4949-bbb8-ebf29b54c8bd_en?filename=Mission%20letter%20-%20VARHELYI.pdf\">common approach<\/a>\u2019 to autism at the EU level as indicated in the portfolio of the European Commissioner for Health. It echoes Autism-Europe\u2019s longstanding call for a coordinated and strategic response to address the needs of autistic people at EU, national and regional levels. The European Parliament has also expressed support, with the adoption in 2023 of a resolution to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/doceo\/document\/TA-9-2023-0343_EN.html\">harmonise the rights of autistic people across Europe<\/a>. <span data-teams=\"true\">In April 2025, the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) \u00a0also \u00a0issued <a id=\"menur501\" class=\"fui-Link ___1q1shib f2hkw1w f3rmtva f1ewtqcl fyind8e f1k6fduh f1w7gpdv fk6fouc fjoy568 figsok6 f1s184ao f1mk8lai fnbmjn9 f1o700av f13mvf36 f1cmlufx f9n3di6 f1ids18y f1tx3yz7 f1deo86v f1eh06m1 f1iescvh fhgqx19 f1olyrje f1p93eir f1nev41a f1h8hb77 f1lqvz6u f10aw75t fsle3fq f17ae5zn\" title=\"https:\/\/tbinternet.ohchr.org\/_layouts\/15\/treatybodyexternal\/download.aspx?symbolno=crpd%2fc%2feur%2fco%2f2-3&amp;lang=en\" href=\"https:\/\/tbinternet.ohchr.org\/_layouts\/15\/treatybodyexternal\/Download.aspx?symbolno=CRPD%2FC%2FEUR%2FCO%2F2-3&amp;Lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Link concluding observations\">concluding observations<\/a> \u00a0calling for further action at the EU-level to realise the rights of autistic people.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">It is, therefore, a timely opportunity to reflect on the needs of the autism community as well as take stock of major initiatives at the EU level, such as AIMS-2 Trials (the largest autism research grant awarded). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aims-2-trials.eu\/\">AIMS-2-TRIALS<\/a> is an ongoing 15-year international collaborative research programme, funded by public private partnership that brings together academic institutions, representatives of the autism community and industry partners from across Europe and beyond. The overall goal of the project is to improve health outcomes and wellbeing for autistic people by matching therapies to individual needs. The project has also surveyed the more general needs of the autism community, notably regarding access to services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">During this high-level conference, co-organised with Autism-Europe and hosted under the auspices of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edf-feph.org\/disability-intergroup\/\">Disability Intergroup<\/a>, autism community representatives and researchers will share insights about the priorities and needs of autistic people across Europe. We want to initiate a dialogue between key stakeholders about necessary next strategic steps for investment in policy and research, services and infrastructure to improve the lives of autistic people across the European Union.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSe88PEd62DTOkHRe16lWDqvkWbXPzGqRPUk5Qk81Ry5ZhsEcQ\/viewform\">Please register here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Programme_Intergroup_Conference_23-April-25.pdf\">Download the full program here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When: 23 April 2025, 15.00 &#8211; 17.00 Where: European Parliament room JAN6Q1, Brussels In September 2024, the European Commission President announced a commitment to work towards a \u2018common approach\u2019 to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/fr\/event\/towards-a-common-approach-for-autism-in-europe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u00ab\u00a0Towards a common approach for autism in Europe\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-50201","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/50201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/50201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50213,"href":"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/50201\/revisions\/50213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50201"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=50201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}