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Annual report 2025

Inclusion Europe’s work is all about people. It is done to represent people, to improve peoples’ lives.
And it is done by people. Here’s how some of us saw this work in 2025: Annual report 2025 (PDF).

Inclusion Europe is the European movement representing 20 million people with intellectual disabilities and their family members.

We stand for full rights and inclusion.

Our member organisations represent people with intellectual disabilities and their families in their countries, we represent them with the European Union and the Council of Europe. The European Platform of Self-Advocates is an integral part of our structure and identity.

We all work together to make Europe finally end segregation of people with intellectual disabilities and isolation of their families.

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Annual Report 2025

This is a report about the work Inclusion Europe did in 2025.

The report has these parts:

  • Who we are and how we work
  • 2025 in the words of different team members
  • Self-advocates and family-members speaking up at European level
  • Bringing people together for full rights and inclusion
  • Providing data and insights
  • Telling stories and sharing examples to promote full rights and inclusion
  • Collaborations and projects to advance inclusion
  • Financial report 2025
  • Who works at Inclusion Europe
  • Why we do what we do
  • Impact of our work

Read our Annual report 2025 (PDF).

Self-advocates and family members speaking up at European level

We make sure self-advocates and family members have the opportunities and skills to talk directly with decision-makers to express their views and expectations on policies that affect them.

“It is important for us to be able to come to the European Parliament and tell about the situation of people with intellectual disabilities and their families. We want to be seen. We want to be heard.”

“We make policies and laws more representative and inclusive.”

“The internet is powerful, but if you don’t know how to use it, you are kind of lost. Everyone wants to get the right support!”

“Full citizenship against exclusion. We will make it happen.”

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Bringing people together for full rights and inclusion

Behind every report or event are the people who come together to share, to learn, to advocate for full rights and inclusion. It’s a community of like-minded, dedicated, hard-working self-advocates, family members, professionals… And we are lucky to play a part in it.

Hear Our Voices!

2025 was a year of the Hear Our Voices! self-advocacy events.
The theme was “Being heard. Being seen.”

EPSA, together with our members, organized 23 Hear Our Voices! self-advocacy events across 18 countries.

There were over 1,200 participants.

self-advocates in European Parliament with their support persons

Events bringing the perspective of people with intellectual disabilities to European level

Some of the events we organised in 2025:

In June, Inclusion Europe organised an event on employment in the European Parliament. We presented our employment report. We launched the Ulla Topi traineeship in inclusive policy-making.

In December, we hosted an online debate with Spanish politician Mar Galcerán. Ms. Galcerán is the first member of a regional parliament with an intellectual disability.

In 2025 Inclusion Europe launched a new series of events called Inclusion After Hours. We hosted 2 Inclusion After Hours events in 2025.

Inclusion Europe organised an event for self-advocates and family members to tell the European Parliament what they want and need.

In summer, Inclusion Europe helped organise self-advocacy trainings in Greece.

We organised 3 sessions at the World Congress of Inclusion International. And with Lebenshilfe and Inclusion International we co-organised a self-advocacy session at the Global Disability Summit in Berlin.

We also organised a training in Lisbon, and our members’ meeting in Berlin.

self-advocates in European Parliament with Irish MEP

Providing data and insights

The Inclusion Indicators report shows what the situation for people with intellectual disabilities and their families is like in 33 European countries.
In 2025, there was a special focus on Housing and support.

We also published:

And we did a lot of work advocating for EU budget to support inclusion.

We contributed to the EDF alternative report informing the CRPD Committee review of the EU, and we participated at the Committee’s hearing.https://www.youtube.com/embed/1R7wkV8lzbM?si=DKeDaiO_Fb5wCaSY

Telling stories and sharing examples to promote full rights and inclusion

Europe for Us is easy-to-read magazine. Every issue of the magazine is produced in 8 languages: English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Hungarian. We published 4 issues in 2025:

  • Representation matters
  • European funds and deinstitutionalisation
  • EU funding: Our money. Our future.
  • Inclusion Indicators 2025

Inclusion Europe Radio is a podcast about rights, challenges and achievements of people with intellectual disabilities and their families across Europe. We published 6 podcasts in 2025.

We also:

  • Published 101 articles on the website.
  • Had 43 media appearances.
  • Had 13,545 newsletter subscribers.
  • Got 323,093 impressions on online media posts.
  • Gained 2,363 new followers on online media channels.
  • Published 174 posts from staff members on LinkedIn – reaching hundreds of thousands of impressions.
  • Made 38 speaker contributions to events and trainings with over 2,200 participants reached.

We also made a video about support in decision-making:https://www.youtube.com/embed/BMVNSa1dF6o?si=w6ApxYsFJxaLPkI8

These were some highlights from our work. For a full picture, read our Annual report 2025 (PDF).

“Inclusion Europe is increasingly seen as the reference organisation, especially on easy-to-read communication and the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in policy processes.”

  • Read more about impact of our work.