The President of the Republic presided over the 2015 EPIS Meeting – Building the Future, in the former building of the Coach Museum.

The album “2006-2015 EPIS Family”, edited by the Association of Entrepreneurs for Social Inclusion and its partners, was distributed during the meeting, which also included presentations of testimonies by aldermen, professional trainers, monitors, voluntary workers, family members and students who are taking part in the several ongoing programme.

At the end of the meeting President Cavaco Silva decorated the two main responsible EPIS officers. The Chairman of the Association, Eng. Luis Palha da Silva, was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit, and the EPIS Director General, Diogo Simões Pereira, the grade of Commander in the same Order.

The President of the Republic then delivered an address.

View here the speech of President Cavaco Silva