Austausch e.V.

Displacement, Disability and Care: German-Polish Dialogue Calls for Stronger Support for Ukrainian Refugees with Disabilities and Their Caregivers

June 4, 2026

On 28 and 29 May, the INKuLtur team, together with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Warsaw), organized the two-day event “Displacement, Disability and Care: Needs, Challenges and Political Priorities for Germany and Poland” at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Berlin. The program combined a public panel discussion with an expert exchange involving stakeholders from Germany and Poland.

Charging stations for a water-monitoring laboratory during the war in Ukraine: together we raised over €2,700

June 3, 2026

Last winter we asked our Austausch community to help our friends at the lab. The original goal was a generator to keep the equipment running through the outages. We raised about €2,750 EUR, which wouldn’t cover a generator, so we changed our approach: instead of one large fixed unit, we bought three EcoFlow power stations. Portable, modular, well suited to a team that is no longer in one place. We ordered them ourselves and sent them to Poltava, where they also helped power the evacuation of people and equipment.

Invisible Care, Unmet Needs: The Situation of Ukrainian Caregivers of Personswith Disabilities in the EU

April 6, 2026

The first cross-national study of Ukrainian caregivers of persons with disabilities in the EU reveals a group caught between two systems – and falling through the cracks of both.