Rehabilitation and the EU

By Lotta Westerhäll

A research project looking at vocational rehabilitation in three EU countries.

It aims to investigate:

1) how vocational rehabilitation is regulated nationally in three different EU countries (Sweden, Germany and the UK);

2) how the EU's legislative regulation of vocational rehabilitation;

3) the link between the national regulation in Sweden, Germany and the UK and the EU regulation in this field

4) coordination issues with regard to vocational rehabilitation in EU law

It aims to determine what Sweden can learn or contribute to the field of rehabilitation.

Contact <lotta.westerhall@law.gu.se

(Newsletter of the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social research, October 2002)