CVEK

27. 05. 2025

What Young People Can(not) Say Out Loud

The NGO IPčko, in collaboration with CVEK, has published “What Young People Can(not) Say Out Loud.” This publication is the culmination of the year-long Unheard project, which featured an anonymous online message board—VYFRUSTROVAČ (the "Frustration Outlet")—where young people have been sharing their messages and questions for over a year. The...

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14. 03. 2025

Challenges and Opportunities: Integrating Youth with Migrant and Refugee Backgrounds in Norway and Slovakia

Integrating young migrants arriving in a country is essential to building an inclusive and thriving society. These young people bring a rich tapestry of cultural and social experiences that enrich local communities. Without targeted support and effective integration measures, however, they often face significant hurdles—including language barriers, discrimination, and restricted...

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30. 04. 2024

CITY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE – Recommendations for the development of strategies targeting young people from diverse groups

The population of young people in Slovakia's towns and cities is becoming increasingly diverse. The Centre for the Research of Ethnicity and Culture has long been addressing the situation, needs and participation of various minority and vulnerable groups, including young people, in its research and advocacy activities. One of the...

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30. 04. 2024

How to do it? Involving young people from diverse groups

If we want young people, including those from minorities and vulnerable groups, to feel comfortable in Slovakia and see it as "their country", they need a voice in society. It is not enough to create policies and activities for young people, it is important to do it together with them.However,...

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26. 06. 2023

A roadmap to integrating refugees and foreigners in cities

This handbook is especially intended for local governments and other actors working at the local level oninclusion of foreigners, but especially of people on the run (refugees) in local communities.The issue of migration will become more and more topical in the future and the following topics can significantly help municipalities...

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28. 02. 2023

Mechanism for preventing radicalisation of young people at local level

The Radicalisation Prevention Mechanism is the result of the work of experts from the Centre for Research on Ethnicity and Culture, other experts from various institutions working on the prevention of radicalisation of young people at the local level, and active young people who have been involved in its development.The...

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12. 12. 2022

Pandemic as a human rights lesson

This book is another publication of the Centre for Research on Ethnicity and Culture, which deals with vulnerable groups and their place in Slovak society. The book highlights how the pandemic has affected children and young people, the elderly, Roma, foreigners and people with disabilities. In individual chapters, we describe...

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18. 11. 2022

Young people from minorities – identity, trust, exclusion, participation

This analysis is the first output of the project entitled "A part for all - promoting participation of young people from diverse groups", which we have been implementing at CVEK since the beginning of May 2022.At CVEK, we have been working on the topic of participation of different minority groups...

Category: Publications

21. 10. 2022

Human rights in Slovak and Norwegian schools. How do children see it?

This publication is the result of research that focused on how human rights are reflected in the school environment in Slovakia and Norway. Based on a comparative approach, we present both an analysis of educational documents and policies in both countries in relation to human rights education, as well as...

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27. 06. 2022

Preventing radicalisation and extremism from an institutional perspective

Within the framework of the project Mechanism for the prevention of radicalisation - young people and the police together, in addition to quantitative research and focus groups with young people, we also conducted individual semi-structured interviews with representatives of institutions that deal with the topic of radicalisation prevention.Our aim is...

Category: Publications