About the project ISI

Integrated Smart Inclusion by Volunteers (ISI) is en EU co-financed project on improving volunteer-based support for the integration and inclusion of Ukrainian refugees in a number of countries that host significant numbers of them: Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia.

ISI goes beyond the typical approach of prioritising employment and language acquisition. While these two aspects of integration are of course very important, ISI also addresses the social aspects of integration and inclusion, especially people-to-people contact and involvement within receiving communities and additional volunteer-based support to improve social inclusion.

The key vector for ISI to achieve this is the development and implementation of a volunteer training curriculum that consists of a central and mutual part (general target-group specific competences that will be the same for volunteers in all countries) as well as a locally adapted part to build a “knowledge hub” on the community level, with the capacities to assist refugees not only in matters of employment and language courses, but also when it comes to cultural offers and meeting spaces with members of the local community.

The project was set-up in April 2025 and will run until September 2026. More information, including result documents, are forthcoming on this website as the project progresses.