WHAT WE DO
The EPC is a European non-profit-making organization which operates under Austrian law due to its registration in Vienna. EPC is supported by the European Union and the Austrian Government.
EPC mission is to promote and contribute to the development of Sport opportunities and competitions for European Athletes with a disability as part of the world Paralympic Movement and to ensure the growth and strength of the Paralympic Movement through the development of the European National Paralympic Committees and to support the activities of all EPC members.
The EPC is an association for the promotion of sports for athletes with a disability and extends its area of function throughout the whole world. The vision is to be the pioneer region in the Paralympic Movement in relation to the development and promotion of sports for European Athletes with a disability and EPC should be known as the pioneer region where the European Athletes with a disability and the Sports are the main focus and drive in everything that is done in EPC.
Mission & Vision
The purpose of the EPC is to promote and defend the collective interest of European athletes with disabilities as represented by their National Paralympic Committee (NPC) or equivalent national body, International Organisation of Sports for the Disabled or International Paralympic Sport Federation in membership of EPC, without discrimination on the grounds of religion, economics, disability, gender, language or ethnic origin.
The EPC aims are to provide sports programs and initiatives for sports for persons with a disability for example by holding a Para-disability European Youth Games each second year and to increase the participation rates in a sport in the less Economically Affluent zones of Europe. The strategy is also to increase participation rates of women in sport throughout Europe.
Main tasks
History & Structure
The EPC was founded as the IPC European Committee in November 1991 and adopted its current name in 1999. In 2008 the permanent Office and Headquarters was established in Vienna, Austria. The EPC is composed of forty-seven National Paralympic Committees and the European branches of four disability-specific International Organisations of Sports for the Disabled.
A General Assembly, held every two years, is the supreme governing body of EPC. All members are entitled to send delegates to the assembly. The EPC Executive Board (formerly known as the Executive Committee) is elected every four years by the members at the General Assembly. The committee is made up of the President, the Vice-President, the Treasurer, the Technical Officer, the Athletes' Representative and four Members-at-large. Besides the Executive Board, the daily duties are carried out by the Head of Office situated in Vienna.