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In February, the third patron group of the Good Integration Space was launched!

During the first meeting and training session, we discussed access to social welfare, healthcare, the labour market, and education for refugee individuals in Poland. We also touched upon topics of prejudice, expectations and assumptions, ethnocentrism, and anti-discrimination. But above all, we got to know each other. We considered what roles we wanted to play in the group, what talents we have, and what we could share […]

Christmas Garage Auction for people with refugee experience

This year's edition of Poznańska Garażówka's Christmas auctions exceeded our wildest expectations. Poznańska Garażówka has been supporting people with refugee experience all over the world for many years. It also supports initiatives and organisations that work with people on the move. As you may remember, the online version of Garażówka, the Christmas auction of Garażówka for people with refugee experience, decided to support our [...]

Christmas decorations in the Debiec Neighbourhood House

We would like to thank MOPR Poznań and Ola Wawrzyniak for the invitation and Dom Sąsiedzki na Dębcu for their hospitality. Together with a lovely group of senior citizens, we made Christmas decorations today. After all, this is what Christmas is all about - coming together - despite our different ages, skin colour, languages and religions, despite coming from different, often distant parts of the world. For the [...]

December meeting

Thank you to all the people who support us! Without you, the Good Integration Space would not be possible!

EXCEPTIONAL STATES: Space for good integration

Listen to Katarzyna Czarnota's conversation with Joanna Spychała. In the podcast, we talk about a city that can be open and welcoming, and about people who are not afraid to take responsibility for their surroundings. We look at how everyday, small actions can lead to real, systemic change. It is also a story about building relationships based on trust and shared responsibility [...]

Competition „Volunteering to Poznań” - Development of volunteering in the model of social patronage

We have now completed the activities of this project - read what we have achieved! Between April and November 2025, we implemented the project „Developing volunteering in the community sponsorship model”. Its aim was to develop volunteering activities within the Spaces of Good Integration by introducing an innovative model of cooperation between the local community and people with refugee experience. The project [...]

We integrate!

The strength of our Poznan patron groups is their DIVERSITY! Our patrons are people from Poland, Turkey and Ukraine. They speak five languages, represent different professions and have different passions. Someone is good at paperwork, someone gets along with officials, teaches Polish, assists at the doctor's. Meeting in a café, a trip to a museum, honing computer skills, looking for a job [...]

A community that includes

We will talk about building multicultural communities during the 8th Wielkopolska Mental Health Forum Tomorrow at 10.45 we will meet in the panel: A community that includes (Weronika Frąckiewicz, Joanna Spychała, Maciej Krajewski, Mikołaj Rykowski, Rev. Radosław Rakowski), and then we invite you to the workshop: Building multicultural communities on the example of the „Space of Good Integration”. They will be jointly led by Joanna (co-founder of the Space of Good Integration), Kübra [...]

Yemeni cuisine in the do_Freedom Zone

A wonderful evening as part of Senioralni. Poznań 2025. Thanks to the support of the Poznań Volunteer Centre and microdonations as part of the „Volunteeriat to Poznań” competition, we were able to invite Poznań seniors to a delicious meeting At a common table we talk about volunteering and integration It was intended to be a mini-culinary workshop inspired by Yemeni cuisine, but in practice it turned out to be a long, shared feast, with a bending [...]

On the gaps that the Good Inclusion Space fills

„Apart from the fact that there is little systemic support, it is important to remember that money does not solve everything. After all, we are dealing with people who potentially do not speak our language, are often single people - they have no support from, for example, a family living in Western Europe. Often they are people with medical problems, acquired during a dangerous [...].