The President and Executive Committee of FEG
EASPD 2025 Innovation Awards
We're very proud that we’ve succeeded in being one of the 6 innovative projects awarded in Europe by EASPD for our "T-GUIDE - Guiding People with Learning Disabilities" course for tourist guides, created and offered by FEG & ENAT!
The European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities (EASPD) is proud to announce the winners of its 2025 Innovation Awards. This year’s Awards celebrate six innovative practices recognised for their efforts to make cultural, recreational, leisure and sporting activities accessible to people with disabilities on an equal basis with others.
People with disabilities can face many barriers to enjoying arts, sports and leisure on an equal basis to others. EASPD’s 2025 Innovation Awards focus on initiatives that help to remove these barriers and create equal opportunities in accessing such activities, as outlined by Article 30 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
The winners received an award during EASPD’s Spring Conference, ‘A Culture of Inclusion: Enriching lives through Arts, Sports and Leisure’, taking place in Gandia, Spain, on the 15th & 16th May 2025.
Among the six 2025 EASPD Innovation Award winners out of the 81 different candidate applicants is our lifelong training course and certification:
‘T-Guide’ by the European Federation of Tourist Guide Associations (FEG) & European Network for Accessible Tourism (ENAT)
& Ivor Ambrose, ENAT Managing Director
with the EASPD 2025 Award
The T-GUIDE (Guiding People with Learning Difficulties) training is a lifelong learning course co-developed by FEG and ENAT. It is designed for professional tourist guides across Europe and provides key principles for preparing guided tours that are inclusive for persons with intellectual disabilities or learning difficulties.
We hope these promising practices will inspire other service providers, tourist guides, travel agencies, associations, and schools for people with learning difficulties, cultural and natural sites, museums, and other venues visited as part of guided tours by certified guides in European destinations.
mounted on blocks of wood, with the winning organisations' names under each one.
The ceramics were made by Andreea, a disabled artist who works
at the Espurna Foundation, in Gandía, Spain
Receiving the 2025 Innovation Award from the EASPD President, Kirsi Konola, before the gathering of over 200 EASPD members, ENAT’s Managing Director, Ivor Ambrose thanked the independent Jury for recognising the value of the FEG-ENAT Certified T-Guide Training Programme which has trained over 100 professional tourist guides in 15 countries since its inception, following a successful EU-funded Life-long Learning project.
Ambrose stated:
“This award is very special to us. It underlines that tourist guides, as professionals in the tourism sector, are highly motivated to learn and improve their skills, enabling them to give visitors with intellectual disabilities meaningful and enjoyable experiences of Europe’s cultural heritage. The award is a testimony to their enthusiasm and dedication, showing how tourist guides can play a significant role in making cultural tourism accessible for everyone”.
As part of the Conference Programme, Ivor Ambrose held an interactive workshop with delegates, where experiences and ideas about cultural tourism sites and tourist guiding were shared. A video from the portfolio of a T-Guide trainee was screened, showing a city-tour with a group of disabled visitors to Cardiff Bay in Wales.
We invite you to read the EASPD Innovation Awards 2025 Booklet here:
EASPD Innovation Awards 2025
And the EASPD 2025 Awards website here for more details on FEG and T-GUIDE, as well as for the rest of the award winners of the year:
EASPD Innovation Awards 2025
