• Education
• Social Economics
• Pedeco

Education

The goal of the Commission "Education and further training" is to safeguard the required level, curriculum and content of P&O education and further training. The members of the commission, who are mostly direct or indirectly involved in national P&O education, do that by means of:

• Assembling data from the members and international agencies, such as ISPO;
• Developing and elaborating inquiries;
• Disseminating the results to the members in order to provide a regular update about the level, curriculum and content of P&O education and further training;
• Surveying the future need for P&O professionals;
• Publishing minimum standards for education and;
• Developing educational module systems;
• In addition special attention is paid to the implementation of business management courses to be included in the P&O education program.

These activities are sometimes carried out with the assistance of European Community programs (Leonardo da Vinci) or EU programs, special aiming for States that are not EU member States or will enter in the nearby future (for instance Hungary, Poland, Rumania, etc.).

The results of surveys and inquiries and the proposed outcomes are mostly discussed in the ISPO / INTERBOR Joint Education Committee (JEC) seeking for consensus agreement.

Today's priorities

• The implementation of the university level education according to JEC standards (so called Category I) into the P&O branch in industrialised- as well as less- and non industrialised countries. Already a complete information package is available at ISPO International in Copenhagen (DK). E-mail: ispo@ispo.ws
• The development of minimum standards for non-university level specially related to industrialised (European) countries;
• The support and assistance of ongoing P&O educational developments in member countries; especially aimed to those countries that have no structured education at all;
• The collaboration in the ISPO / INTERBOR Joint Education Committee;
• The forwarding of information through the "INTERBOR UPDATE" and "INTERBOR NEWSFLASHES".

Present members

	Mr. Jens Franke Chairman BUFA Schliepstrasse 8 D-44315 Dortmund Germany Tel: 00-49 231 559 1512 Fax: 00-49 231 559 1333 E-mail: j.franke@ot-bufa.de		Mr. Jørund Fjaerbu Member NOF-OVL Granlia 4 N-4620 Kristiansand Norway Tel.: 00-47 38 10 58 20 Fax: 00-47 38 09 35 41 E-mail: joerund.fjaerbu@ortoprdiservice.no
	Mr. Edmond Deschoolmeester Member INTERBOR Tulpenlaan 21 BE-2550 Kontich Belgium Tel.: 00-32 475 60 54 03 Fax: 00-32 15 31 01 41 E-mail: edmond.deschoolmeester@eds-orthopedie.be		Mrs. Laetitia Chiarelli Mrs. Christine Barbon Members UFOP 6, Rue Léon Jouhaux F-75010 Paris France Tel.: 00 33 1 424 050 60 Fax: 00 33 1 424 055 56 E-mail: ufop@club-internet.fr
	Mr. D. Kokegei Member BUFA Schliepstrasse 8 D-44315 Dortmund Deutschland Tel.: 00-49-231 559 1200 Fax: 00-49-231- E-mail: d.kokegei@ot-bufa.de		Mr. Manuel Puente Member FEDOP Capitan Haya 56  6H SP-28020 Madrid Spain Tel: 00-34 91 571 6640 Fax: 00-34 91 571 5129 E-mail: fedop@fedop.org
	Mr. Marcel Conradi Member Orthobanda Jan van Galenstraat 78 P.O. Box 405 NL-3115 JG Schiedam The Netherlands Tel.: 00 31 10 409 05 40 Fax: 00 31 10 473 28 18 E-mail: orthobanda@sels.nl		Mr. Sándor Balogh Member Szent László utca 95 II em H-1135 Budapest Hungary Tel.: 00 36 1 465 0018 Fax: 00 36 1 465 0019 E-mail 1: etokos@ibt.hu E-mail 2: omi@hu.inter.net
	Mr. Marco Laineri Member FIOTO Via L'Aquilla 62 IT-00176 Roma Italy Tel.: 00 39 06 703 003 25 Fax: 00 39 06 703 002 67 E-mail: fioto@fioto.it