ESF-SI-2024-UA-01-0014
Ensuring employment sustainability and financial resilience through a multi-layered model of well-being and immersion for Ukrainian Refugees in local communities
The IMMERSED project is based on innovative citizen-centered solutions that will provide employment sustainability and financial resilience to Ukrainian refugees. This will be achieved through a multi-layered model of well-being support and immersion in local communities.
The IMMERSED project will help address the specific social problem of lack of employment sustainability support for Ukrainian refugees in host countries, which also generates an inability to achieve financial resilience, low well-being and difficulty integrating into local communities. The IMMERSED project will leverage good practices from existing products and adapt them to the new situation of Ukrainian refugees. The IMMERSED project will empower citizens and improve the way our societies and their social welfare systems function, and provide support to Ukrainian refugees.
The main pillar of the IMMERSED ecosystem will be a strong network and collaboration among partners, but especially with associated partners who represent the quadruple helix model of the four main actors in the innovation process – public, private, academic and civil society.
By assessing existing evidence, the IMMERSED project will build the foundation for a new approach to supporting employment sustainability and financial resilience for Ukrainian refugees through:
- Training and creating materials for employment sustainability trainers,
- Creating a new model of discussion clubs,
- Mapping local initiatives (barter and networking opportunities – with reference to Quadruple Helix, bottom-up initiatives and local communities),
- Comprehensive (addressing different anxieties and traumas) mental health support program for Ukrainian Refugees.
These solutions will be tested in local communities in Poland (Warsaw and Katowice), Slovakia (Žilina and Presov), and Romania (Cluj-Napoca and Iasi) with the support of the associated partners mentioned in the proposal, but also with the participation of a wide range of stakeholders.
Funding: 684,160.00 Eur