Events
- Innovation Team meeting in Budapest (3 December, 2025)
The 4th meeting was held in Budapest on 3 December, 2025, hosted by the Metropolitan Research Institute Budapest (Városkutatás Kft.). Here we reviewed the state of the art of the progress made by each partner, the results, and experiences accumulated in the course of the past year. We examined in detail the major challenges faced by the organizations, and coordinated the scheduling of upcoming online meetings as well as the in-person meeting to be held in Warsaw.
Tasks Completed
- Needs Assessment: accomplished mixed methods based entry data collection)
In 2025, the SOLACE-CEE input needs assessment was implemented using a mixed-methods approach. This included a quantitative survey with a questionnaire available in five six languages (ENG, HU, BG, PL, SLO, RO) and a qualitative survey based on interviews conducted by the five participating organizations with clients and partner organisations. The assessment focused on clients’ education, demographic profile, employment, housing, and health, as well as the organizations’ addressed and unmet needs. MRI staff oversaw the preparation of the local studies, including questionnaire design and stakeholder coordination, and was responsible for data collection, processing, and analysis.
Links:
- https://solace-cee.eu/needs-assessment-research-reveals-homeless-people-in-central-and-southeast-europe-face-serious-barriers-to-housing-and-healthcare/
- https://mri.hu/en/solace-cee/
- https://solace-cee.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/D2.1-Needs-Assessment.pdf
- https://solace-cee.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/EN-D2.1-Needs-Assessment-Annexes-SOLACE-CEE.pdf/
- Participation in International Conferences
In the past year, two conferences were attended (1. 19th European Research Conference on Homelessness, 18–19 September 2025, Utrecht, Netherlands; 2. Geographies of a Changing Europe, 8–11 September 2025, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna), where the results of the SOLACE-CEE project’s needs assessment were also presented.
Links:
- https://eugeo2025.eu/eugeo-2025-program/conference-program/
- https://www.feantsa.org/files/Observatory/Conference/2025/Presentations/WS24_Vachnova_etal.pdf/
- Team Meeting Consultations: Innovation Team
As MRI is part of the Innovation Team, MRI colleagues are involved in its work. During the work of the Innovation Team, service development and methodological innovation activities related to the project are supervised and monitored, including the e-learning training program materials developed by the partners.