Impact4Values
Stronger support, stronger voices: a partnership upgrading how we welcome and include migrants, refugees and reunited families.
Project is led by our partner ADRA Slovenia ↗
Rights on paper are not always rights in practice
People with migrant backgrounds still meet systemic barriers when they try to reach their rights, public services and education — most sharply in the first months after arriving or after family reunification. Many also face unequal treatment and discrimination.
Lasting, innovative programmes that treat them as equal partners are still rare, and NGOs and other actors often cooperate too loosely to give vulnerable people the support they need.
Impact4Values answers this by upgrading an existing programme that supports migration, integration and family reunification of refugee families — and by putting the people it serves at the centre.
- Migration, integration & family reunification
- Six partner organisations in Slovenia
- Special focus on women and young people
- Digital tools, workshops, vouchers & advocacy
What Impact4Values adds
Four upgrades turn good support into support that is faster, more dignified and shaped together with the people it serves.
Digital & innovative tools
A refreshed online campaign identity, virtual exhibitions, QR codes and multimedia — podcasts, video and articles — co-created with the people they speak about.
Virtual exhibitionsQR codesPodcastsVideo
Upgraded counselling & workshops
Interactive methods such as role-play and story cards, plus a voucher (gift card) system for quick, dignified help in a crisis or after family reunification.
Role-playStory cardsVouchers
Cross-sector cooperation
An incubator of five NGOs for joint planning, knowledge sharing, coordinated advocacy, training and peer review.
5 NGOsPeer reviewJoint advocacy
Women & youth in the lead
Women and young people become content creators, workshop leaders and co-creators of public initiatives — shaping the project rather than only receiving it.
Content creatorsWorkshop leadersCo-creators
Built with people, not just for them
Content, workshops and public initiatives are shaped together with the people they speak about. Users help create podcasts, videos, articles and virtual exhibitions, while women and young people take on roles as workshop leaders and co-creators.
Alongside the NGO incubator, this turns support from something people receive into something they help design.
What we are committed to deliver
Concrete targets across four areas of work.
People receive direct support
- Upgraded “Info-Office” workshops
- Individual counselling
- Vouchers for urgent needs
Representatives · NGOs in the incubator
- Joint meetings and training
- An international round table
- A peer-review process
Upgraded awareness & advocacy campaigns
- Reaching 200,000 people
- 500 additional petition signatories
- 30 educators and decision-makers reached
Women and young people involved
- Global-learning and civic-education workshops
- A consultation for women
- 5 intercultural events — from an open-door Ramadan to Rumi night and gastronomy workshops
Target groups
The project centres people with migrant backgrounds — especially women — and works with the people and institutions around them to change the system.
People with migrant backgrounds
With a special focus on women, who take active roles throughout the project.
Asylum seekers
Information, workshops and counselling in the first, most uncertain months.
People with international protection
Support to reach their rights, public services and education.
Reunited families
Quick, dignified help after family reunification, including vouchers.
- Young people
- Educators
- Partner NGOs
- Local communities
- Decision-makers
- The wider public
Six partners, one shared goal
Organisations from civil society, culture and research, each bringing a different strength.
ADRA Slovenija
Humanitarian and development NGO that helps vulnerable people through social support, education, disaster relief, migration assistance, and community development programs.
Medkulturni dialog
An organisation dedicated to intercultural dialogue and understanding.
Kulturno društvo Gmajna
A cultural association connecting communities through creativity and shared experiences.
Zavod APIS
APIS Institute, working on social and civic development.
ZRC SAZU Migration Institute
Institute for Slovenian Emigration and Migration Studies — research that grounds the project in evidence.
Društvo Afriški center
The African Centre Slovenia brings community voices, integration workshops and legal and cultural support to the partnership.
Related projects
Earlier and parallel initiatives that shape the work of Impact4Values.
RES-MOVE: integration support, leisure activities and lay psychosocial help
BODE+ — brez ovir do enakosti, vrednot in pravic
BODE — brez ovir do enakosti
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Be part of the change
Whether you are an NGO, an educator, a young person or someone who simply wants to help, there is a place for you in Impact4Values. Reach out and let’s build inclusion together.
Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.