Saint Lazarus Centre for Adults with Disabilities (Kentro AmeA “Agios Lazaros”) – OID: E10045250 is a licensed, community-based non-profit organisation in Larnaca, Cyprus, supporting adults with intellectual disabilities through Day Services, Vocational Rehabilitation and 24/7 Supported Living.
The Centre provides a complete community-based support ecosystem focused on dignity, autonomy, social inclusion, skills development, family support, cultural participation and quality of life. Its services create a real-life, non-clinical environment where inclusive approaches can be co-created, tested and validated with adults with intellectual disabilities, families, professionals and local stakeholders.
Saint Lazarus Centre is interested in Horizon Europe Cluster 2 consortia as an end-user organisation, community-based Living Lab, pilot site, implementation partner and social impact demonstrator. The Centre can contribute to projects through end-user engagement, co-creation workshops, user needs analysis, real-life piloting, accessibility and usability feedback, qualitative evaluation, stakeholder engagement, dissemination and social impact demonstration.
Our strategic priorities include lifelong independent living pathways, supported living, long-term care, ageing and disability, deinstitutionalisation, skills development, adult education, vocational inclusion, inclusive employment, family support, accessibility, safeguarding, inclusive culture and community-based social innovation.
The Centre is particularly relevant to Cluster 2 proposals under Social and Economic Transformations, especially topics linked to long-term care, demographic change, social inclusion, skills, accessibility and Europe’s social model. It can also contribute to culture- and participation-related projects where arts, creativity and cultural participation are used to strengthen soft skills, confidence, communication and inclusion for adults with intellectual disabilities.
With over 15 years of experience in European programmes, including Entre4All, and as an Erasmus+ accredited organisation in Adult Education, Saint Lazarus Centre offers strong practical implementation capacity, direct access to end users and a real community setting for testing socially meaningful innovation.
The organisation is not seeking to coordinate Horizon Europe proposals, but to join consortia as a strong practice-based implementation partner from Cyprus.