The article examines the experience of adaption of internally displaced students by means of the projection of the city’s socio-cultural space as an adaptive environment. The features of the adaptation problems of internally displaced students, the mechanism of inclusion of the individual in the socio-cultural environment are determined. The proposed project strategy is aimed at developing scenarios involving internally displaced students which will develop creative imagination, fantasy, communication skills and which form social optimism, world view, positive attitudes towards creating a system of social relationships based on basic concepts of the system of human values.In addition, the implementation of the project at the local level has facilitated the integration of internally displaced students into the cultural environment through: support of youth artistic initiatives that represent an artistic vision of cultural, scientific and social problems; expansion of the circle of curators of contemporary art by providing them with educational opportunities in combination with practical experience; search for new names and talents in the field of contemporary art; increase in the number of students involved in the cultural and leisure sphere.