March 2024
The 4IM project was presented at a social innovation conference
At the TINLAB-URBAN21 conference held in Cegléd, deputy mayor Andrea Varga, the project's professional policy leader, gave a presentation on the project.
The central theme of the March 21 event was an issue that is increasingly pressing for the majority of municipalities. A significant number of settlements are now continuously losing their population. Moreover, those residents who decide to move elsewhere are typically from the younger, more highly educated social strata. The continuous population decline and the emigration of talents have serious negative consequences for the settlements and for those who remain. Those settlements that are unable to provide adequate answers to this challenge will be permanently torn apart.
The 4IM project, which ensures the targeted coordination of social and employment services in order to catch up with the majority of the society, fits into this theme. You can hear more about this in Andrea Varga's presentation, which can be watched in Hungarian language in the video below.
The Miskolc staff of the 4IM project discussed their professional methods at Kosice
The Miskolc delegation of the program paid a professional visit to the Slovak city at the end of February. The purpose of the field meeting was to discuss the experiences of the work carried out during the project period: after the professional discussion, the Slovak colleagues showed the practical elements during a tour of the Luník IX district in Kosice.
In the "4IM - Miskolc is our place!" project, Kassa and Miskolc, which are twin cities anyway, work together as partners. During the visit on February 29th, the members of the staff of the 4IM project in Miskolc were curious about their methods and to what extent the colleagues from Kassa were progressing in their primary target area, the Luník IX housing estate. In addition, they wanted to report on the application of the community coaching method in Miskolc to the representatives of the Slovak partner.
With the help of his colleagues, Igor Rolný gave a summary of the complex work carried out in the area of Luník IX, after which the guests from Miskolc got to know the practical aspects of the social work carried out in the district on a site visit.
