CVEK

25. 07. 2007

V4 Summer School, 4 – 6th Edition (2007)

The aim of the Visegrad Summer School has been to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and to create an alternative learning environment for young people from Central and Eastern Europe. The summer school has been organized to lower prejudice and stereotypes of particular ethnic groups. 50 young...

Category: Finished projects

1. 07. 2007

Accelerating CSR Practices in the New EU Member States and Candidate Countries

The beginning of 2007 marks the start of a first regional project launched by UNDP to accelerate implementation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in 8 new EU Member States and in candidate countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Slovak Republic and Turkey. The Project aims at promoting and supporting...

Category: Finished projects

30. 06. 2007

Life in Motion: Shifting spaces, transcending times, crossing borders“

CVEK participated on preparation and organization of the 8th Postgraduate conference „Life in Motion: Shifting spaces, transcending times, crossing borders“, that took place on June 28-30, 2007 at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University in Brno. Conference has been successful continuation of conference series at the SSEES-UCL in London,...

Category: Finished projects

11. 06. 2007

Processes of Redefinition and Reconstruction of the Term Nation in Central Europe

Objective of the conference has been to contribute to better understanding of the processes of redefinition of nation's identity. That in consequences would allow not only better conditions for handling of the minority and migrant issues, but also increased mutual understanding between nations in Central Europe. In Central European countries,...

Category: Finished projects

30. 04. 2007

Co-organization of the project Visegrad Essay Competition 2007

CVEK participated on the project of the Global Politics web magazine (www.globalpolitics.cz) in which students from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia took part in the 2007 Visegrad Essay Competition and thus they contributed to the ongoing scholarly discourse over Central European political developments.To participate, student authors submitted an...

Category: Finished projects

1. 02. 2007

Digital broadcast server – digimedia.sk

The Server, www.digimedia.sk, launched on December 2006, provided critical information, news, articles, and interviews about digital broadcasting in Slovakia and elsewhere. The purpose of this server has been to facilitate transformation of Slovak broadcasting through well considered communication campaign targeted at professionals, working in the area of broadcasting and telecommunications...

Category: Finished projects

31. 01. 2007

Minorities and Migrants in Media

The objective of the project was to provide the press with relevant feedback on the manner and extent of their communication about national and ethnic minorities and immigrants.The research encompasses Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia; it lasted for one month and researchers monitored three different daily newspapers, two weeklies, one...

Category: Finished projects

31. 12. 2006

RAXEN 7

Racism and Xenophobia European Information Network (RAXEN) was established by European Monitoring Center of Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC). The main objective of EUMC is to offer broad audience in the EU-25 objective, reliable and comparable data on issues of racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism in the territory of member states and to...

Category: Finished projects

31. 12. 2006

Removing Barriers for Educational Mobility

Elena Gallová Kriglerová in cooperation with experts from Slovak Governance Institute realized qualitative research aimed at impacts of public educational policy on access of Roma children to education. The most crucial barriers and obstacles of equal access to education have been identified throughout in - depth interviews with the relevant...

Category: Finished projects

30. 12. 2006

Roma in Slovakia – Settlement Initiatives in Community Conflicts

This survey has been undertaken in the context of the project PEACE-COM supported by the Sixth Framework RTD Program of the European Communities. Its objective has been to collect information on personal and professional background, as well as opinions of key actors of Slovak - Roma relations in Slovakia. Survey...

Category: Finished projects