Welcome to e-include, the e-journal of Inclusion Europe.

Implementation Period	2008-2010
Funded by	European Commission - Directorate General Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities as part of the "PROGRESS" programme
Project number	VP/2008/004/228
Project Coordinator	atempo GmbH (Austria)
Testing partners	Germany Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband, Dach- und Spitzenverband der freien Wohlfahrtspflege Berlin Catholic University of Applied Social Sciences Berlin (KHSB) Senate Department for Integration, Labour and Social Issues of the State of Berlin Norway Norsk Forbund for Utviklingshemmede (NFU) Baerum municipality Czech Republic Inclusion Czech (SPMP)
Observer partners	Inclusion Ireland (Ireland) Associazione Provinciale/Lebenshilfe Südtirol (Italy) Viltis - Lithuanian Welfare Society for Persons with Mental Disability (Lithuania) PORAKA - Republic Center for support of persons with intellectual disability (Macedonia) Soncek (Slovenia) FEAPS (Spain)
Expert administrative authority	Department 13 of the office of the Carinthian Provincial Government
Partner for evaluation, documentation and publication	Inclusion Euorpe
Dissemination partner	European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities

“UNIQ” is one of 8 European projects within the Progress programme which aims at spreading tried-and-tested methods for the definition, improvement and measuring of the quality of social services in member countries.

Objectives:

Analysis of existing models of user involvement in the definition, description and evaluation of quality of social services in Europe, with main focus to residential (long-term-care) services for people with disabilities.
Test user-evaluation on the basis of the Nueva user-evaluation model.
Discussion in terms of usability and transferability of the Nueva model within quality circles.
Production of Guidelines for implementation of user evaluation in European countries and production of a Video (barrier free DVD) for the dissemination of the project experiences.
Establishment of a long-lasting network of partner organisations who want to implement user-evaluation in their areas and to carry out the Nueva model as well as to contribute to a further development of this model.

Results

The UNIQ partnership has collected and published the findings out of the UNIQ project in:

An analysis report which concludes that the different existing approaches have to undergo significant further development and change to reach the standards of user involvement in quality evaluation that have been reached by the Nueva system.
A brochure available in German, English, Norwegian and Czech and in an easy to read version

More information on the UNIQ project can be found at www.nueva-network.eu