Purpose
Statement
More than a conference
The Summit is built around connection, collaboration and action. It brings together perspectives that are too often separated. The goal is not simply to share what we know, but also to ask what we can do better and what we can achieve together.
Vision
Statement
a world where everyone can achieve their greatest potential through better rehabilitation: where evidence and lived experience shape practice, innovation is translated into meaningful solutions, and professionals and organisations work together across traditional boundaries.
Mission
Six commitments
to connect the global rehabilitation community and turn knowledge into meaningful action, by:
- 1Connecting people across disciplines, countries and sectors
- 2Sharing evidence, experience and practical knowledge
- 3Challenging existing approaches and encouraging new thinking
- 4Translating research and innovation into clinical practice and real-world solutions
- 5Empowering professionals and people with lived experience to influence and cocreate the future of rehabilitation
- 6Accelerating collaboration between healthcare, research, industry and the wider community
The need
The one figure
2.4 billion
people worldwide need rehabilitation (WHO)
Founding structural partnership
The offer
A limited circle of founding structural partners, across the Summit, the Institute and the Intelligence Platform, a 365-day relationship, starting now.
At a glance
Four facts
- Dates
- 26–31 October 2027
- Location
- Bruges, Belgium
- Expected attendance
- approx. 2,000 participants
- Format
- Inaugural International Rehabilitation Summit
In preparation
Seven sections
- Why Partner With IRSIIn preparation
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- Partnership OpportunitiesIn preparation
- Sponsorship OpportunitiesIn preparation
- ExhibitionIn preparation
- Current PartnersIn preparation
- Become a PartnerIn preparation
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