CVEK

22. 05. 2017

StrongLab – Towards Stronger Labour Inspection Cooperation

The labour intensive industrial and agriculture sectors in the V4 have experienced a significant increase in labour migration from Ukraine as well as from other European states. Labour migration (both non-EU and EU) poses a number of challenges for the regulation of labour markets (e.g. undeclared work), particular localities and...

Category: Finished projects

27. 03. 2016

Complex Instruction Program – the case study of Hejökeresztúr school

Through the short-term project supported by the Open Society Institute CVEK carries out a research at the primary school in the Hungarian village Hejőkeresztúr. It has been already 16 years since the Hejökeresztúr teachers started to implement the methods of Complex Instruction Program. Thanks to this approach, the school which is attended by 73% of children coming from...

Category: Finished projects

22. 02. 2016

Encouraging municipalities engagement in refugee and migrant integration: good practices from Norway

refugee integration. Current refugee crisis and following reactions of political representatives show that municipalities in Slovakia are not ready to accept migrants; nor are they ready to adopt inclusive policies ensuring social cohesion that could prevent migrants and refugees from being refused and excluded by the host populations. The project aims to encourage municipalities and...

Category: Finished projects

22. 02. 2016

Intercultural Guide to the Life in Slovakia

Integration is a multidimensional and long-lasting process that should begin straight after one's entry to the host country - for asylum seekers and other migrants cultural and social integration is essential. The project seeks to create so called intercultural guide to the life in Slovakia that will make integration of...

Category: Finished projects

8. 02. 2016

Encouraging Municipality Stakeholders’s Engagement in Promoting Refugee Integration and Diversity

The project aims to cultivate public debate and to reduce negative attitudes towards refugees and help municipalities better understand current refugee situation. It also sets out to build capacities of local authorities in  these topics by training and further cooperating with local leaders in 7 municipalities in Slovakia. We will hold two...

Category: Finished projects

19. 01. 2016

Everyone should have a chance!

Anchored in human rights paradigm, Everyone should have a chance! project seeks to challenge political and public discourses securitizing and constructing Roma as threats to the majority.Political discourse feeds on presumptions of causality between Roma ethnicity and certain attributes (e.g. laziness, predisposition to criminal behaviour, etc.) and use them to...

Category: Finished projects

14. 07. 2015

Inclusive Schools – Learn and Live Together in Democracy

The project is conducted in cooperation with Romanian (FRCCF), Argentinian (CIPPEC) and Mexican (Vía Educación) partners and its main aim is to identify good practices in primary school education in the respective countries. The project focuses on the schools that are attempting to put inclusive education principles into practice. Based...

Category: Finished projects

30. 03. 2015

Qualitative Evaluation Study on the Implementation of the Project “Progress – Investing in the Early Years of Children – Promoting Social Innovation and Roma Integration”

CVEK was selected to conduct an external evaluation of the project "Progress - Investing in the Early Years of Children – Promoting Social Innovation and Roma Integration." The project was implemented from January 2013 through December 2014 by the Office of the Plenipotentiary of the Slovak Government for Roma Communities...

Category: Finished projects

16. 10. 2014

Integration of migrants on the local level: capacity building of local actors

ZMOS in cooperation with CVEK experts provides assistance to five selected municipalities in the field of migrant integration. The project's main objective is to improve local actors' know-how and attitudes when implementing integration policies on the local level. Furthermore, the project facilitates drafting and implementation of local integration strategies in five selected...

Category: Finished projects

15. 01. 2014

Racial Prejudice and Discrimination in Foster Care – Time for a Change

The project analyzes the situation of Roma children in foster care with the emphasis on ethnicity, discrimination and violations of children's rights. It is focused on the process of removing children from their families, their placement in different types of institutional care and treatment of Roma children as a specific...

Category: Finished projects