Vote 2024 – European Social Services Awards

Vote here for the 2024 European Social Services Awards!

The voting process is simple:

1. Place one vote per category
2. Enter your details at the end and press vote to submit

The deadline to vote is 5 PM on 21 October.

Service Delivery

This Award honours social services programmes that foster social inclusion in the community, ensuring that persons in vulnerable situations are supported and fully included, responding to their unique needs and preferences. Read more about the shortlisted projects here

From Farm to Table – Lessons from the 300 Least Developed Settlements of Hungary | Hungarian Charity Service of the Order of Malta | Hungary

In-house Social Services Programme ‘I Believe in the Unbelievable’ | Valakampiai Social Support Facility, City of Vilnius (Lithuania) | Lithuania

Transforming Senior Centres into Civic and Community Centres | Department of Social Rights and Inclusion, Directorate General of Civic and Community Action, Catalonia | Spain

CONCORDIA Day Care Centres | CONCORDIA Humanitarian Organisation (CONCORDIA Romania) | Romania

Good Life through Good People: Supported Home ‘Salcia’ | ASSOC – Nongovernmental Professional Association of Social Assistance | Romania

Ability@Work | Cope Foundation | Ireland

REACH_U 2.0 | CRESCER | Portugal

The NDTI Small Supports Programme | National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTI) | United Kingdom

Workforce Support

This Award honours social services organisations that have positively impacted their workforce and empowered neighbourhood networks to support the provision of community-centred care. Read more about the shortlisted projects here

NTRIS Employment Support Scheme | Child and Family Agency (TUSLA) | Ireland

De-escalation and Conflict Management | Special Area for Children and Youth in Denmark, Regional Government of Central Denmark | Denmark

Social Care Workforce Reform in Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland Social Care Council (SCC) | Northern Ireland

Training Formal and Informal Long-Term Caregivers | Centre of Competences of Active Ageing | Portugal

HeatSafe: Empowering Social Care for Heatwave Preparedness | Social Care Standards Authority (SCSA) | Malta

Making Interaction Meaningful: Communicating Effectively in Children’s Services | Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) and Child and Family Agency (Tusla) | Ireland

Supporting Family Caregivers: Taking Care of Those Who Care | ATS Bergamo – Health Protection Agency, Department of Planning for the Integration of Health and Social Services | Italy

Challenges of Families and Social Work: With Polyphonic Community to Desired Outcomes | Faculty of Social Work, University of Ljubljana | Slovenia

Collaborative Practice

This Award honours co-creation and collaborative approaches that ensure all relevant stakeholders in the community are represented and included in decision making processes in the development and delivery of social programmes. Read more about the shortlisted projects here

Deinstitutionalisation and Reform of the Care System for Young Children | Hope and Homes for Children – Bulgaria | Bulgaria

National Emergency Response Mechanism (NERM) | Ministry of Migration and Asylum | Greece

INTEcum | Regional Government of Castilla y Leon – Department for Social Services | Spain

Together for an Inclusive City: The Work of the Coordination Committee | Coordination Committee for Social Participation in the City of Dortmund | Germany

Be Safe, Be Cool in Your School | 6th District General Directorate for Social Assistance and Child Protection, Bucharest | Romania

The CuidAs Strategy: A Framework for Transforming Long-Term Care Cooperatively | Regional Ministry of Social Rights and Welfare (Principado de Asturias) | Spain

Youth Design Lisbon (JDL): Engaging Young People in Community Safety | Lisbon City Council | Portugal

Together Strengthening the Participation of Vulnerable Children in Decision-Making | SOS Children’s Villages International | Austria

Research and Evaluation

This Award honours research that contributed to the development of evidence-based inclusive community and neighbourhood services and programmes.Read more about the shortlisted projects here.

Evaluation of Community-Led Support | University of Birmingham | UK

Triangle P+: Tool for Inclusive Participation in Family Support | Childhood, Adolescence and Families Research Group (GRIAF), University of Lleida | Spain

National Assessment of Social Services Deinstitutionalisation | Korczak University – Academy of Applied Sciences | Poland

Prevention of Radicalisation and Violent Extremism in the Community | IPS Innovative Prison Systems | Portugal

Goal Setting in Long-Term Rehabilitation after an Acquired Brain Injury | Center Naprej Maribor for persons with acquired brain injury | Slovenia

Minimum Package of Services | National Authority for the Protection of Children’s Rights and UNICEF Romania | Romania

AI-HOME: Using Artificial Intelligence to Address Homelessness | Saint John of God Valencia | Spain

Digital Transformation

This Award recognises not only advancements in technology and digital improvements that promote inclusion in communities, but also the availability and accessibility of digital tools, relevant services, training for digital literacy, ensuring everyone’s digital inclusion. Read more about the shortlisted projects here.

SimbiòTIC: Advancing Data Management to Improve Care | Taula d’entitats del Tercer Sector de Catalunya | Spain

Ensuring Web- Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities | Agency for Sustainable and Operative Social Provision | Azerbaijan

Addressing Gender-Based Violence among Children | SAMU Foundation | Spain

Improving Home Care with Telecare and Predictive Systems | Andalusian Agency for Social Service and Dependency | Spain

The Social Work Way Mobile App | The Social Work Way | United Kingdom

Digital Social Services Case Management | Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine | Ukraine

Excellence in Communities Award

The Award celebrates organisations that are outstanding in crafting inclusive and resilient neighbourhoods and communities, ensuring that all residents’ rights, choices and independence are valued and respected. Read more about the shortlist projects here

RADAR Project | Santa casa da Misericordia de Lisboa | Portugal

Addressing Violence in Cities to Restore, Heal, and Strengthen Communities | Youth Advocate Programs, Inc. | United States

Tempo Time Credits Cymru | Tempo Time Credits | United Kingdom

Autism Voice Institute | Autism Voice | Romania

Rathfriland and District Regeneration | Rathfriland and District Regeneration Company | Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Staircase to Staircase | City of Aarhus | Denmark

Laying the Foundations for a Personal Budgets System | Aġenzija Sapport | Malta

BIO-CARES: Community-Delivered, Person-Centred Care in Rural Areas | Confederation of Rural Development Centres (COCEDER) | Spain

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