Open Relief

OPEN RELIEF - Empowering Communities through Open-Source Creative Solutions for Crisis Preparedness and Humanitarian Innovation - is a 24-month project co-funded by the European Union through the Creative Europe Programme. The project explores how cultural and creative sector professionals, humanitarian actors, and local communities can work together to develop open-source, adaptable, and community-based solutions for crisis preparedness. Through participatory co-creation, OPEN RELIEF aims to make preparedness more inclusive, practical, repairable, and responsive to the real needs of people and communities.

The project brings together a cross-border consortium from Croatia, Greece, and Ukraine. The consortium is coordinated by IM INDUSTRIES from Croatia and includes Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design (KNUTD) from Ukraine, contributing expertise in digital fabrication, engineering design, and frugal innovation, and LATRA EE from Greece, leading communication, dissemination, and hybrid participatory design hubs with refugees and displaced creatives.

Official website: coming soon

Facebook: facebook.com/openrelief1

Instagram: @open_relief

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/open-relief

IM industries' Role in OPEN RELIEF

IM INDUSTRIES leads the overall project coordination, capacity-building activities, and participatory design residencies focused on marginalized communities. Through this role, IM INDUSTRIES supports collaboration between creative professionals, humanitarian stakeholders, and communities to co-create open-source preparedness solutions rooted in lived experience and social inclusion.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however 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.