Empowering NGOs & public institutions in helping children overcome migration traumas using creativity and favors of nature
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KidsLikeUs

PROGRAMME 2021-2027
priority
1 Innovative societies
objective
1.1 Resilient economies and communities
Project type
Core Project
Implementation
January 2023 - December 2025

KidsLikeUs

In the project KidsLikeUs, educators, public authorities and NGOs explore how contact with nature and appeal to all senses can improve mental well-being of children with traumatic experiences.
Project summary

In 2022 a huge migration tsunami hit Europe again. This time, in comparison to the Mediterranean migration crisis 7 years ago, it has been much bigger, reaching over 5 MM people that have fled Ukraine by the 20th of April. One of the most vulnerable groups in the migration process are children – they often don’t know the language and their mental health is not ready to cope with such big traumas and changes in their surroundings. The concern of the mental health of children is much wider indeed. Since 2020 children and adolescents have been deeply affected by the mental health impacts of the pandemic. Experts indicate that they can feel the trauma and anxiety long after the war, pandemic or any other trauma triggering factor ends. So, what if the volunteers, educators, public institutions and NGOs learned how to create quickly small “Superhero sensory gardens” and got the instructions how to use them for the benefit of the young citizens? What if that could be helpful to improve the mental health not only of the refugees, but actually people of all ages and nationalities? Children are the future of every society. They will build a new world for the generations to come. Imagine we can take a good care of them now so that they are equipped with strong mental attitudes and belief that despite the traumas, they are valuable and welcomed no matter what EU country they happened to live in. Children‘s mental health and well-being are borderless issues thus we all need to act now.

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Budgets

KidsLikeUs
in numbers.
  • 1.65
    Million
    Total
  • 1.09
    Million
    Erdf
  • 0.14
    Million
    Norway
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30 Benefitting organisations 1 Solution(s) in preparation 1 Solution(s) plannedfor use / upscale 3 Pilotactivities 22 Organisationsin the project

KidsLikeUs
in numbers.

  • 52.400663216.91973259178088
  • 58.40207580000000613.853389955986867
  • 61.4770151521.79163769066212
  • 55.247729324.7599714
  • 59.3254821524.561091408526856
  • 56.949397724.1051846
  • 57.89448927.016201361134677
  • 59.1295611.3527
Lead partnerPoznan University of Life Sciences
  • Town
    Poznań
  • Region
  • Country
    Poland
  • Region
    Miasto Poznań
Total partner budget
374,000.00
Association YogaYou
  • Town
    SKÖVDE
  • Region
  • Country
    Sweden
  • Region
    Västra Götalands län
Total partner budget
230,000.00
Satakunta University of Applied Sciences
  • Town
    Pori
  • Region
  • Country
    Finland
  • Region
    Pohjanmaa
Total partner budget
170,000.00
"Smarter step" public institution
  • Town
    Ukmerge
  • Region
  • Country
    Lithuania
  • Region
    Vilniaus apskritis
Total partner budget
130,000.00
Saue Municipality
  • Town
    Saue
  • Region
  • Country
    Estonia
  • Region
    Põhja-Eesti
Total partner budget
180,000.00
Art Academy of Latvia
  • Town
    Riga
  • Region
  • Country
    Latvia
  • Region
    Rīga
Total partner budget
130,000.00
Võru County Education and Technology Centre
  • Town
    Väimela
  • Region
  • Country
    Estonia
  • Region
    Lõuna-Eesti
Total partner budget
150,000.00
Østfold University College
  • Town
    Halden
  • Region
  • Country
    Norway
  • Region
    Viken
Total partner budget
285,647.99

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    16
    December
    Workshop with children in the Tampere's Ukraine House
    Project: KidsLikeUs
    Physical Meeting
    16. December 2023
    10:00 - 11:30 (EET)
    14-15
    December
    International design workshops
    Project: KidsLikeUs
    Virtual Meeting & Physical Meeting
    14. - 15. December 2023
    12:00 - 18:00 (EET)