COZZ leads and co-implements projects supporting workers’ rights and awareness under grants from the European Commission, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, and UNHCR.
2026
Union Values
COZZ participated in a consortium led by the trade union SZAD for the European Social Fund (ESF) project, “Union Values”. Within this project, COZZ Hungary carried out greenfield organizing campaigns for Care workers, reaching 760 survey responses, talking with 600 workers via phone; having introductory meetings with 80 workers; founding 5 new local branches for the union…
2023
– 2026
INVOLVE
COZZ participates within a consortium led by the Belgian research organization, Bewingen, for the INVOLVE project, which is funded by the European Commission Horizons program, and which runs from January 2023 to December 2026, involving focus group research and interviews with workers in the Polish care sector.
2025
– 2026
Stepping into the Job
This project supports Ukrainian refugee teenagers in Poland and Germany for decent work contracts, safety and health protections. UNI Europa’s Central European Organising Centre (COZZ) and the Ukrainian education organisation Fundacja Pro Futuro, launch a new project “Stepping into a job: Helping Ukrainian Refugee Teens Enter the Central European Labour Market Safely and Legally, and…
Archival:
2024
Educational resources and legal consultations for Ukrainians entering Polish workforce
Over the last 2,5 years of activity of UHR, holding over a dozen seminars, answering over a thousand questions and providing a helpline for Ukrainian workers we continuously deal with a very low level of understanding of Polish labour code among majority of Ukrainian community in Poland. This causes their disenfranchisement in face of being…