The Mozaik Association it is an NGO based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. We are a children’s association that includes in its
activities children, adolescents and their parents and other adults who come from socially disadvantaged backgrounds in
Ljubljana (Roma, asylum seekers, persons with refugee status, persons with subsidiary protection, persons with the right to
stay in the Republic of Slovenia, immigrants from the republics of the former Yugoslavia and illegal migrants). These are
people who, for various reasons, are pushed to the edge of social life. It is precisely them that the association includes in its
social welfare and youth programs and projects. The main goal of working with groups characterized by the term
underprivileged is intensive social integration into the wider social environment and overcoming discrimination. The
association carries out activities on several levels: work with the user, with the group, with the community, with organizations
and institutions, and activist work.
We are a team of 4 full time regular employees and 4 part time contract workers.
In the former programs Youth in action / Youth, we were applicants as well as participants of several international projects.
In program INTI we were also partners in international project.

Katarina Meden, president of the association. I am the co-founder of the association and creator of all programs and
projects for the integration of migrants, Roma and the socially disadvantaged into the wider local environment. I have many
years of experience in youth work through street work, work in families, as well as cooperation with non-governmental
organizations and institutions in the field of education, health and social care. Through my work with the illiterate or
functionally illiterate, I met employees in institutions who did not know how to properly approach a (functionally) illiterate
person, who consequently dropped out of further consideration. My work is / still includes the convergence of the two
diverging worlds of the increasingly digital and (functionally) illiterate.
In recent times, Slovenia has taken a step forward towards the digitization of healthcare. This
has reduced the accessibility to health and health services for our users, most of whom are functionally illiterate and do not
have developed digital skills.