Activities of ECA
The ECA is involved in a variety of activities to push their conductive education awareness work and achieve their goals.
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ECA a partner of the worldwide digital platform for Conductive Education: ConductMe
ConductMe is a worldwide digital platform for everyone with an interest in Conductive Education to connect, educate, discuss and learn – for equal value for all.
As a partner of ConductMe we want to secure the future of Conductive Education. We believe that sharing knowledge is the key to a brighter future and together we can make a change.
We support the platform with information and our network. Partners of ConductMe are conductors, organizations, institutes and businesses, working with the concept of Conductive Education. We share the same goal: Spread and strengthen Conductive Education!
The founder of ConductMe, Eszter Horváth Tóthné, also conductor, is one of our ECA Board Members. ConductMe has gone live in 2021 and ECA is currently working with pressure on conductive material to be uploaded and made available for customer use.
ConductMe will speed up the spread of Conductive Education and highlight and manifest its potential.
The world is changing, ECA is part of it!
ConductMe is free for everyone to use! http://www.conductme.com
Collaboration with Petö Faculty at Semmelweis University
The ECA works closely together with the Petö Institute, which is part of the Semmelweis University. Both organizations agreed on a common strategy and a close collaboration in the topic of the practical exchange of students.
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![Front Entrance of Semmelweis University building. Three flgas on left. Tree on right. The building has 4 stories. The entry is barrier-free.](https://european-conductive-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/PAK-College.jpg)
![Logo of the Semmelweis University: Universitas Budapestinensis de Semmelweis Nominata.](https://european-conductive-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/PAK-Logo.jpg)
Board Meetings
The ECA has two monthly board meetings where goals are set and information is exchanged about the status quo and future collaboration joined by the acting dean of the András Petö Faculty of Semmelweis University.
Attending Conferences
The ECA initiates and attends professional and medical conferences.
Conference in Brussels with European ministers for the purpose of recognition of the conductor profession
In 2017 it was possible to present the “European Introduction of the Conductor, the pedagogical rehabilitation professional” to the European Parliament in Brussels. The conference aimed to promote the interests of the European conductive community.
The conference was organized by Dr. Ádám Kósa, Member of the European Parliament and Dr. Andrea Zsebe Ph.D., acting Dean of the András Pető Faculty of Semmelweis University Budapest, Hungary.
![Group picture in Brussels at parliament showing ECA and ministers, dressed smart.](https://european-conductive-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/IMG_20171010_153142-1024x768.jpg)
![Podium at Eu parliament showing ECA members and EU flag.](https://european-conductive-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/IMG_20171010_133517-1024x768.jpg)
![Eu Parliament. A group of 7 people standing up with EU flag at the back. Amongst them ECA, Mr. von Quadt and others.](https://european-conductive-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/IMG_20171010_132927-1024x768.jpg)
Download: European Conference Information of Acting Dean of Semmelweis University, András Pető Faculty, 12 Sept 2017
Petö Day
Annually we meet at the Petö Day which traditionally takes place in November.
Below new medical findings are being presented.
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![People sitting as audience on chairs listening to lecture.](https://european-conductive-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Petö-Day-2.jpg)
![People in a meeting room. ECA roll up left. 4 rows of tables. Ca. 15 people. On person at the back explaining something.](https://european-conductive-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Petö-Day.jpg)
Visiting Conductive Education Institutions around the world
To ensure the quality of the conductive programs world-wide and to acquire more members for our good cause the ECA travels around the world and compares the praxis and conductive programs of the various institutions.
The ECA also talks about the problems the institutions experience in terms of recognition, conductors, and funding.
![At Art department in Pfennigparade. Teacher explaining the work of the disabled persons. Art pictures on walls.](https://european-conductive-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Acena-at-art-department.jpg)
![Group picture of 6 sitting at table in Norway with PTO Norge having a meal.](https://european-conductive-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Acena-visiting-Norway.jpg)
![Group picutre of 5 showing Patti Herbst, Acena, ECA and Mr. von Moreau of Stiftung Pfennigparade smiling.](https://european-conductive-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Acena-with-von-Moreau.jpg)
World Cerebral Palsy Day WCPD
The ECA actively supports and promotes WCPD.
![Marble cake on white plate with green decoration, 4 green candles and ECA logo on top for WCPD.](https://european-conductive-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Happy-World-CP-Day-cake-with-logo-and-candles-768x1024.jpg)
![WCPD 2020 Illumination Karlstor, Germany](https://european-conductive-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/IMG_1663-768x1024.jpg)
![Petö Chair with Octoberfest Heart for WCPD. Child pushing the chair forward.](https://european-conductive-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019_WCPD-1-950x1024.jpg)
![WCPD Board dressed in green in front of ECA roll-up. 4 people.](https://european-conductive-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/WCPD-board-in-green.jpg)
![Picture of a group of ca. 30 children all with green t-shirt, sitting on floor of school in Hungary at WCPD.](https://european-conductive-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/WolrdCPDay_2018_Pető-School.jpg)
![WCPD 2020 Opening of representatives for the disabled](https://european-conductive-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/IMG_1639-768x1024.jpg)
Networking with professionals and parents
During parent events, parent workshops and conferences the ECA networks with professionals, parents and disabled people to find out about their motor progress and newly gained abilities under the program of Conductive Education, as well as new medical findings and possible operations, aids and techniques.
![Conference showing audience and stage. On stage podium with 8 people, one person in wheel chair. Background: blue curtain with Slide show saying: Wellcome in the City Hall (Presentation showing in German language)](https://european-conductive-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Reha-Kind.jpg)
![Conference picture showing a slide on the stage of a person with subtitle Vogt, Wolfgang (Germany).](https://european-conductive-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/WCCE-2016.jpg)
Promoting ECA work
The ECA has issued 2500 ECA Flyers in one year.
The ECA issues two Newsletters a year and publishes news on facebook frequently. Also, a year-end review informs ECAs members and friends of their progress.
The ECA holds lectures at various professional conferences and has an ECA information desk with an ECA roll-up and ECA flyers.
![A brown box full with piles of ECA flyers. The flyers have the titel ECA calling Europe and beyond!](https://european-conductive-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/IMG_0723-1.jpg)
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Help to place conductor students into the conductive practice
The ECA brings conductor students in contact with the local conductive institutes for the purpose of Conductive Education practice. The Semmelweis Institute agreed on a practical exchange of students with some Conductive Education parent institutions to learn, compare and profit from one another.
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Phoenix GmbH in Munich
![One boy in background talking to teacher sitting in high tech wheel chair. 4 other people around him taking notes, looking something up in a folder.](https://european-conductive-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Uni-Betz-2-1024x682.jpg)
![One lady lecturer standing on board showing a slide. She points to the slide not talking. The slide is headed: The House of Knowledge, a metaphor for a conscious pedagogy, society and environment.](https://european-conductive-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Schweden-Uni-Betz-1024x768.jpg)