CVEK

25. 10. 2012

School as a community. Inclusive education environment creating in elementary schools.

The aim of the project is to support the ability of schools to implement inclusive education and create examples of best practices. To pursue this goal, the Center for the Research of Ethnicity and Culture will engage in cooperation with three elementary schools form different regions of Slovakia. The leading...

Category: Finished projects

25. 04. 2012

Cooperation with European Union Agency for Fundametal Rights (FRA) within the FRANET network

In the second half of 2011, Center for the Research of Ethnicity and Culture (CVEK) became the national focal point of European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) within the network of research institutions FRANET. The network engages organizations in each EU member state as well as Croatia.Within the cooperation...

Category: Finished projects

21. 01. 2012

Summer School V4 – 11th edition (2012)

In 2012 CVEK co-organized 11th edition of the V4 Summer School in the Willa Decius in Cracow. The 11th edition of the Visegrad Summer School brought again together 50 young Czech, Hungarian, Polish, and Slovak students, as well as some students from other countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The program consisted of lectures, panel debates...

Category: Finished projects

17. 10. 2011

Minorities in the political discourse

The project has been a response to the recent developments in the field of minority policy in Slovakia which demonstrate that minorities are construed as a threat to Slovak national interests and ethnically defined Slovak identity. It has been based on the premise that by justifying minority policies by protection of national...

Category: Finished projects

15. 10. 2011

Measures to improve the education of Roma children – are they truly inclusive?

The main goal of the project has been based on qualitative empirical research to evaluate the current public policy measures aimed to improve the education of Roma children in terms of their inclusiveness. This meant to assess to what extend the measures enable full and equal opportunities for Roma children...

Category: Finished projects

17. 06. 2011

Muslims in Visegrad

The project has been aimed at fostering discussion and providing information on Muslims living in Visegrad countries to the wider public. Its main premise was that prejudice and xenophobia are primarily rooted in the lack of relevant information and contact between cultures. Muslim communities in V4 countries have been on...

Category: Finished projects

5. 03. 2011

Enhancing prospects of integration of third countries nationals on the local level

Building capacities of actors of local integration policies through networking and development of information base. The project has been concerned with integration of migrants on local level. It is assumed that successful integration of migrants depends on the way this matter is perceived dealt with by local stakeholders. Local stakeholders in...

Category: Finished projects

10. 02. 2011

Summer School of Ethnicity and Migration Studies – 2nd Edition (2011)

About the Summer SchoolThe 2nd edition of the Summer School of Ethnicity and Migration Studies has been a two-week educational program covering topics connected with nationalism and ethnicity, de-ethnization of the public sphere, migration and integration analysis, approaches and policies.Topics connected to de-construction of national myths, analyses of public policies...

Category: Finished projects

7. 01. 2011

Summer School V4 – 10th edition (2011)

In 2011 CVEK co-organized already 10th edition of the V4 Summer School in the Willa Decius in Krakow. The 10th edition of the Visegrad Summer School brought again together 50 young Czech, Hungarian, Polish, and Slovak students, as well as some students from other countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The program consisted of lectures, panel...

Category: Finished projects

3. 01. 2011

Monitoring minority policies in Slovakia

Project Monitoring minority policies in Slovakia has had an ambition to fill in the domestic gap in monitoring minority policies with a broader objective changing the discourse on minorities and related policies. Project also complemented existing periodical monitoring of international bodies. Saliently, CVEK was hoping to embark on processes that...

Category: Finished projects