CVEK

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

28. 11. 2013

Minority Rights in Slovakia

The project seeks to improve protection of the rights of national, ethnic and religious minorities in Slovakia via monitoring, analytic and advocacy activities. The objective is to facilitate harmonisation of minority policy in Slovakia with international human rights standards.In the long run, the project aims to shift the public discourse...

Category: Finished projects

16. 10. 2013

Supporting the Equality of Opportunities for Roma generally and Romani Women through Temporary Equalizing Measurers (TEM)

The project builds capacities of public administration  in promoting Roma inclusion utilizing the groundbreaking amendment of antidiscrimination legislation that sanctions temporary equalization measures (TEMs) on the grounds of ethnicity and gender. Analytical activities entail designing of TEM schemes taking into account gender perspective in key sectors: education and employment. TEM schemes...

Category: Finished projects

9. 08. 2013

National Identities in Central-East Europe. Political Discourses – Educational Solutions

The project seeks to gain deeper understanding of political parties' communication of national identity in CEE countries and Germany.A thorough analysis of various documents (e.g. election manifestos, parliamentary debates etc.) will allow us to identify ways political elites use to conceptualize issues of national identity, national minorities or immigration. The project...

Category: Finished projects

2. 07. 2013

Slovakia: a Country for All?

The project seeks to create a broad civic platform - a public forum that will counter increasing radicalism and discriminatory and anti-minority rhetoric. The program also includes advocacy of measures aiming to improve human rights and inclusive education on all level of Slovakia's schooling system. Furthermore, the project is concerned with...

Category: Finished projects

2. 07. 2013

Present and yet (in)visible?

The project seeks to analyze social and cultural integration of third country nationals on the local level while using the method of case studies of three  selected localities. The methodolgy draws on anthropological research.Apart from a detailed analysis of social and cultural integration of third country nationals the project puts...

Category: Finished projects