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Within the "MCA-Mongolia Health Project Institutional Contractor EPOS Health Management, Germany" project, the list of quality criteria from quint-essenz has been translated into Mongolian. In "Train-the-Trainers" courses, Mongolian experts familiarize themselves with the concepts of health promotion and the quint-essenz quality criteria. Users with Mongolian language skills can find more information here on the website Healthy Life is our choice.

Over the next few weeks, in the context of a new publication about quint-essenz, which will be published in early 2012 by Huber Publishing, the current four-phase classification (general planning, detailed planning, implementation and conclusion) will be changed to a new, three-phase project model. It is intended to bring into focus the temporal sequence of the task and to express the cyclical process of controlling better.

The phases of general and detailed planning are consolidated in a new design phase.

The implementation phase is still referred to as implementation phase and consists of several development cycles that are separated by milestones.

The third and final valorisation phase, in contrast to the previous final phase, emphasizes clearly the importance of critical analysis and dissemination of ideas, experience and evaluation of the project results.

Are you faced with the task of having to write a final report for your project? The template and instructions for writing a final report have been thoroughly revised and form a good basis for your report. The outline of the final report will be consistent with the project draft and the project design.

If you are planning a larger project, it may make sense to draft a rather detailed evaluation plan in the initial phase already, in addition to the project design and the evaluation chart. Methodological issues and organizational aspects can be described at an early stage. In the quint-essenz quality system, you will find a new template for an evaluation plan complete with guidance and instructions for use.

Quint-esssenz itself is also improving - in keeping with the call for continuous quality development - and the glossary has been revised and supplemented. There are short definitions of terms that have been introduced into the system this year and which make our understanding of these terms explicit.

Registered users previously have been able to save their favourite pages by clicking on the asterisk symbol (*) on any page, and viewing and editing their list of personal favourites on their own homepage (My Domain/My Start page). New favourites can now be stored directly in the user’s own star-selected menu in the main navigation bar.

Bilateral messages can now include attached documents and links as was already possible in special interest discussion groups.

In the community section of the platform, only the first 50 hits are displayed on the first page on the list view.

The activity index of publicly visible organizations and professionals is new and highlighted in varying degrees of brightness on the map view.

The presentations of public expert groups are now visible on the map view with the addresses of public members.

The platform has long offered organizations in health promotion and prevention an opportunity to publish vacant positions. Job opportunities can now be described and published in several languages. Registered users can now subscribe to receive descriptions of vacant positions. If they so wish, they will be automatically notified by email about newly posted positions.

In the public forum, posts of registered users who have public profiles are automatically seen with their real names and photos. You can now set and display a nickname for the public forum under My Domain/My Preferences. If no nickname is specified and the profile is not visible, “Anonymous writer” will be displayed instead of a nickname.

There are two evaluation grids: one for funding organizations and one for organizations which are responsible for implementing projects in health promotion and prevention. With these grids, managers can determine where they stand in terms of developing and promoting quality or when handling their own intervention projects. With the help of the grids, key strengths and areas for improvement are identified, quality targets can then be defined and appropriate measures taken.

This working group, which was brought to life by Health Promotion Switzerland, launches the theme of soft drink consumption and drinking water in relation to healthy body weight in children and adolescents in Switzerland. It is developing ways to communicate about drinking water and other intervention measures, paying particular attention to draw on existing experiences.

Addiction Info Switzerland is a private organization that is not associated with any political party and recognized as a non-profit organization. The organization seeks to prevent or reduce the problems of addiction to alcohol and other psychoactive substances. Addiction Info Switzerland is active on a national level and also maintains partnerships with institutions worldwide.

klemon is a proven parent-centred early intervention measure for children between two and five who have an eating problem or are at risk of obesity. The intervention proposes that children be observed over several months, by counsellors in close cooperation with parents, and with the provision of regular consultations. This is supported by paediatric and family practices.

I am a social worker, supervisor and NPO manager (NPO = Non Profit Organization). I have about ten years of experience in these roles. They are the building blocks of my current professional activity, which is the administration of a state specialist agency for the prevention of addictions. Since 2001, I have been the head of ‘Addiction Prevention Aargau’ in Aarau, Switzerland. The four providers in various regions of the state were merged into a single head office in 2006. Professionally, I am experienced and know a lot about such subjects as change and integration, negotiation processes, organizational development, product development in NPOs, personnel management, knowledge management, quality and marketing.

Do you work together in a cross-institutional working group with other professionals? Start a special interest user group on quint-essenz and invite members from your working group. All accepted members have easy access to documents, such as minutes of meetings and you can use the discussion forum to exchange information online and to clarify emerging issues. New members will be informed by email about new discussion threads and contributions, unless they have this option turned off.

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