SMART UA - JRS Europe

About JRS Europe

Jesuit Refugee Service Europe (JRS Europe) is based in Brussels and coordinates the work of 23 national and regional JRS offices across the continent. As a non-profit and faith-based organization, it accompanies, serves, and advocates for refugees, asylum seekers, and other forcibly displaced people. Its activities include advocacy at the European level, comparative research, and the coordination of transnational projects that strengthen integration, access to rights, and dignity for displaced communities.

Role in the project

As coordinator of the SMART UA project, JRS Europe is responsible for:

  • Consortium coordination: managing project governance, monitoring progress, and ensuring compliance with EU rules.

  • Research support: guiding methodologies and ensuring that national findings are comparable and feed into EU-level analysis.
  • Capacity building: facilitating transnational exchanges and knowledge-sharing activities across Romania, Hungary, and Slovakia.
  • Communication and dissemination: producing project-wide communication materials, leading awareness campaigns, and ensuring visibility in EU policy circles.
  • Advocacy and scaling: organizing a European-level final event and disseminating innovative practices across its network to influence policy and integration approaches.

 

REPORTS

In addition to leading the final European report, JRS Europe contributes to all national reports by ensuring methodological consistency, comparability across countries, and visibility at the EU level. While the Romanian, Hungarian, and Slovak reports are led by national partners, they all form part of a shared evidence base that JRS Europe helps to shape and consolidate for the transnational synthesis.

Final Comparative Transnational Report: This European-level synthesis will bring together the findings from Romania, Hungary, and Slovakia, ensuring that national evidence informs EU-wide policies and practices on housing and labour market integration.

 

Co-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 Social Fund Agency. Neither the European Union nor the Granting Authority can be held responsible for them.