ECPA represents a scientific and a professional community strongly committed to engage with communities and to build with them social change. Our community has developed practices grounded on a solid theoretical basis, and has given a substantial contribution to the identification of the core competencies of Community Psychologists. ECPA is continuously working to affirm the core values of Community Psychology in (psychological) science and society with an emphasis on the need for a socially engaged research on societal challenges (including climate change, migrations inequalities and other global crises). ECPA is committed to produce and offer to national and European Institutions research that produces political and social impact and to offer local communities and community organizations support, advice and tools to improve their well being and their sustainable development.
Main Goals of ECPA
- To contribute to the theoretical advance of the discipline
- To engage scholars and practitioners into a critical debate of key concepts, methodologies and approaches used in community psychology.
- To support the development of collaborative research networks between community psychologists and scholars from different disciplinary fields able to apply for European funds
- To stimulate European community psychologists to rethink methods, research and intervention practices increasing their sustainability for dealing with old and new societal challenges and contributing to sustainable development goals ( health, education, inequalities, discrimination, climate change)
- To increase the capacity of community psychologists to produce political and societal impact, thus demonstrating that the way Community Psychologists approach research and intervention produces results that are relevant to elaborate new policies, directives, recommendations or reforms by policymakers.
Executive Committee
ECPA is led by an Executive Committee, which is elected every two years and consists of:
- President
- Treasurer
- President-elect (President for the following election period)
- Several members-at-large
- Past President (with advisory functions)
President
Francesca Esposito (she/her)
Treasurer
Fortuna Procentese (she/her)
Members
Dora Rebelo (she/her)
Maric Martin Lorusso (he/him/they/them)
Megan Vine Ratnayake (she/her)
Nicola Rainisio (he/him)
Miles Thompson (he/him)
Past President
Cinzia Albanesi (she/her)
History and Previous Events
The European Community Psychology Association (ECPA) was founded out of the European Network of Community Psychologists.
Previous events:
- 8th European Conference on Community Psychology, York/United Kingdom 2011
- 7th European Conference on Community Psychology, Paris/France 2009
- 2nd International Conference on Community Psychology, Lisboa/Portugal 2008
- International Seminar: Integrating New Migrants in the New Europe, Sevilla/Spain 2007
- 6th European Conference on Community Psychology, Opole/Poland 2006
- 5th European Conference for Community Psychology, Berlin/Germany 2004