Projects supported in the program in 3. Call
Medium Grants:
Islamská nadácia na Slovensku
“Those next door”
Main aim and activites:
Through the use of innovative tools, the project will contribute to the alleviation of tensions/fears in society, expressions of intolerance and negative stereotypes towards selected groups that have unfortunately become the “norm”. The direct connection of actors will spark a dialogue across cultures and faiths, so necessary in contemporary Slovak society, thus bringing about positive change at the local level and improving civil coexistence.
The ambition of the project is to bring an intensive educational campaign and to develop dialogue between population groups. It will promote positive and cooperative interactions, understanding and respect, increasing diversity and respect for democracy, freedom and human rights. The format of the project is quite new in Slovakia, linking relevant actors, generations, cultures and faiths. The concentration and content of the activities will develop a constructive dialogue on fears, prejudices, causes and impacts of intolerance through positive examples and contributions of “strangers” among us. Experiential learning will promote creative and critical thinking in contrast to memorization in school without context and self-reflection. Project activities are designed to counter hate speech and prejudice, in favour of promoting tolerance, inclusion and empathy. Through intensive campaigning and face-to-face meetings, the project will seek to reduce deepening tensions in society and radical thinking among young people, through active refutation of misinformation and hoax content, pro-actively linking key actors and members of selected minorities in the fight against hate speech.
Project timeline: 2021-11-15 – 2023-05-15
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 45 840,00 €
Grant amount: 41 256,00 €
LEAF
„Transforming the school from the inside“
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to increase respect for the individual needs of pupils and to improve the relationship and cooperation between teacher and pupil, especially in schools with Roma pupils. Through this project, LEAF and its partner ETP are guiding teachers in 7 primary and secondary schools towards active learning and active citizenship. Through trainings and supervisions, teachers will be guided to respect the needs of pupils, so that even after the end of the project, innovations are introduced in schools and the specific needs of pupils are respected.
The project will provide the following activities in each of the 7 schools involved in the project to achieve the goal: workshops and coaching for school leadership, 2-day workshops on respectful approach and mentoring for 140 teachers in the beginning and middle of the programme (about 35 teachers per training session), individual supervision for all participating teachers. They will support students with peer workshops and inspirational training and online mentoring of students.
The direct target group is the 140 teachers who will work with their self-awareness, reflection, naming the reality of their practices, the effectiveness of the methods they use and their attitudes towards their pupils during the workshops.The group workshops will offer suggestions and impetus from the outside. Teachers will be guided throughout the project process by LEAF supervisors who, through reflecting on teachers’ values and attitudes, will lead them to strengthen their critical thinking, respect for self and others, foster understanding, and appreciation of cultural diversity. Supervision and mentoring will directly support active listening skills, the ability to listen to other views and different perspectives, and promote appreciation of and respect for difference.
Project timeline: 2021-11-15 – 2023-03-15
Project Partner 1: ETP Slovensko – Centrum pre udržateľný rozvoj
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 64 510,00 €
Grant amount: 58 059,00 €
Laputa, o.z.
Strong reading
Main aim and activites:
The project works on the assumption that well-developed reading literacy not only correlates with developed active citizenship, but directly determines it. Instead of standard methods, the development of reading literacy is approached through creative and critical reading methods, which, with appropriately chosen texts, create a platform for the development of critical civic empathy. The dominant focus of the project is therefore on reading, working with the text and appropriately chosen complementary activities, which are e-learning courses that will follow the selected texts and at least 5 audio live libraries in the form of podcasts.
Cooperation of 3 organizations will be translated into a unique publication with 2 volumes, the first of their kind in Slovakia, which will serve as an educational tool primarily for the last years of primary schools, secondary schools and universities. It will be a selection of texts on human rights in the form of a book that will focus on the most pressing human rights issues. In addition, the project will bring, for the first time in Slovakia, a live library in the form of a podcast, as well as a series of e-learning courses. The publication will contain 20 fiction or essay texts published (with an emphasis on texts that are understandable for the target group of the project) in Slovak language. The texts will be selected by a mixed team of experts from the fields of human rights and civil society, Slovak language and literature and pedagogy and other fields.
Project timeline: 2021-10-15 – 2023-02-15
Project Partner 1: Centrum komunitného organizovania
Project Partner 2: Amnesty International Slovensko
Project eligible expenditure: 65 870,00 €
Grant amount: 59 283,00 €
Občan, demokracia a zodpovednosť
Strengthening key institutions, education and awareness-raising to sustainably promote non-discrimination and gender equality
Main aim and activites:
The project seeks systemic, strategic, effective, sustainable and complementary activities, implemented both “from above” and “from below”, which will have the potential to improve the situation of discrimination of different individuals and groups, to establish anti-discrimination, gender-sensitive and overall human rights know-how in key institutions, to inform and empower the public to recognise and respond appropriately to discrimination, and to increase the supply and availability of quality, up-to-date and comprehensible information on (non)discrimination and gender equality.
The first line of activities will be professional training events in the field of anti-discrimination law and gender equality for selected courts in the Slovak Republic. Professional training events will also be carried out for the Slovak National Centre for Human Rights – a specialised institution with specific responsibilities in the field of anti-discrimination (equality body) and human rights.
Training will also be provided for other groups that can positively influence the state of non-discrimination and gender equality, or knowledge and education about them, namely law faculties, pedagogical faculties and other faculties of social orientation, etc.
The project will also implement a number of activities that will raise the awareness of the general public and its sensitivity to issues of discrimination, the situation of marginalised communities or gender inequality. As part of the project’s information and awareness-raising activities, podcasts on various topics of discrimination and gender equality will be prepared and broadcast. These podcasts will also be made available, together with other information and other materials for the general and professional public, via the dedicated portal www.diskriminacia.sk, which is administered by the applicant.
Project timeline: 2022-01-01 – 2023-03-31
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 38 792,22 €
Grant amount: 34 913,00 €
Categories
2. Call Supported Projects
Projects supported in the program in 2. Call
Medium Grants:
LIVING MEMORY
Civic education for democracy
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is – in cooperation with the Faculty of Education of the University in Trnava – to train students of secondary schools and teachers of these secondary schools in a form of civic education where the educator is the moderator of a constructive discussion in which myths, half-truths and lies spread by extremists are replaced by real facts and truthful information. The main goal is to “create” a citizen aware of values of freedom and democracy and a teacher who actively contributes to this goal.
Project timeline: 01-07-2020 – 20-12-2021
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 40,042.22 €
Grant amount: 36,038 €
Zmudri
Be more clever in civic issues
Main aim and activites:
The project works with 10 specific schools in selected districts (Prešov, Košice, Snina, Veľký Krtíš, Námestovo and others) through involvement of specific teachers and students. It focuses on topics students learn about in civics but do not know how to use in real life, engages students in critical thinking about civic issues, as well as strengthens their motivation and interest in things around them. To reach all these targets, videos are used – as this form of communication is very familiar to them thanks to social networks. A series of video courses will be publicly available online as well as distributed to teachers together with methodological materials.
Project timeline: 01-08-2020 – 31-07-2021
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 49,712.22 €
Grant amount: 44,741 €
eduRoma
CTeachers (Critically Thinking, Culturally Sensitive & Conscious Teachers)
Main aim and activites:
The project responds to the long-term unresolved situation of schools in providing a kind of counseling and quality training of teachers which prevents segregation in education. It connects formal and informal system of in-service teacher education and supports internal capacity of state and academic institutions through an educational and counseling program tailored to counselors, teachers and methodologists to effectively prevent school failures in their own practice and as future lecturers.
Project timeline: 01-06-2020 – 30-11-2022
Project Partner 1: Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 70,990 €
Grant amount: 63,891 €
Slovenská debatná asociácia
Education of critical thinking teachers in the regions
Main aim and activites:
The project focuses on the development of critical thinking in schools in the regions – mainly in smaller cities and outside the Bratislava region. As part of the educational program, at least 40 teachers will be trained to be able to incorporate the debate methodology in the teaching of their subjects and in leading an argumentative after school class. Instructors will then provide them with online consultations and class visits so that they can further improve their skills in critical thinking training. Each teacher will reach about 60 of his students yearly.
Project timeline: 01-07-2020 – 31-12-2021
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 37,930 €
Grant amount: 34,137 €
Ave ProsperitA
School and peer mediation as a tool for prevention of bullying and other sociopathological phenomena
Main aim and activites:
The project will be implemented in primary and secondary schools in the Žilina and Banská Bystrica regions through trainings of social and communication skills for teachers and students. It will focus on preventing bullying and socio-pathological phenomena, improving climate in schools, reducing conflicts in schools, improving social tolerance, removing barriers stemming from different socio-economic situation of families of students, cultural differences, etc. and non-aggressively averting aggressive behavior, learning to respect diversity of opinion and human rights. The anticipated number people targeted by the project is 180 pupils and 300 pedagogical and professional employees from participating schools.
Project timeline: 01-06-2020 – 30-11-2022
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 45,300 €
Grant amount: 40,770 €
Dúha na východe, o.z.
Rainbow Education
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to improve the quality of life of LGBTI people in eastern Slovakia by educating various target groups to accept LGBTI people and leading a campaign to sensitize students and the public to accept LGBTI people. Educational activities within the project will be focused on changing attitudes and strengthening own activities of students in the sphere of human rights/LGBTI rights; campaigning will also be implemented through a peer approach in secondary schools. The project also has the ambition to contribute to suppression of hate speech and prejudice against LGBTI people.
Project timeline: 01-01-2021 – 30-06-2022
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 60,001.11 €
Grant amount: 54,001 €
Strategic Grants:
Centrum Slniečko, n.o.
No bruises
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to implement innovative methods of experiential education for teachers, students-future professionals in the field of human rights in the context of gender equality and through identification of in/appropriate approaches of experts. An important part of the project is the analysis of “white spaces” in the victim protection system, proposals for effective changes, setting up communication towards legislators and the public through round tables and a podcast platform.
Project timeline: 01-09-2020 – 30-04-2022
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 94,781.82 €
Grant amount: 83,408 €
Projekt Fórum, občianske združenie
Central European Forum 2020/2021
Main aim and activites:
The project draws the public into the current global debate on human rights with the help of the world’s top scientists and artists – in the form of large public debates, exclusive seminars for teachers and students, texts, and an international conference in an elementary school with predominance of Roma children. The main motive is to recognize the imperative of human dignity in a variety of contexts. The project wants to inspire society to an active citizenship that defends human rights in everyday life.
Project timeline: 01-06-2020 – 30-11-2022
Project Partner 1: The Norwegian support group after the 22nd July attacks
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 123,000 €
Grant amount: 110,700 €
Centrum komunitného organizovania
Schools for Democracy – Development, Professionalization and Advocacy
Main aim and activites:
The project focuses on strengthening and developing the educational programme Schools for Democracy in less developed parts of the Banská Bystrica region to which almost no attention is paid and which is probably most threatened by the growing popularity of alternative and extremist ideas. At the same time, the project has the ambition to professionalize and strengthen the School for Democracy program in the area of wider advocacy towards relevant stakeholders.
Project timeline: 01-08-2020 – 31-12-2022
Project Partner 1: Amnesty International Slovakia
Project Partner 2: Reach-Institute, o.z.
Project eligible expenditure: 111,040 €
Grant amount: 99,936 €
Možnosť voľby
Speak up with us!
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to raise awareness of reproductive rights and strengthen women’s right to decide freely on their bodies and reproduction. The project will focus on strengthening the gender and human rights frameworks of public debate and promoting the measures needed to eliminate discriminatory practices faced in particular by women and young people. The project will strategically strengthen the Don’t Be Silent initiative.
Project timeline: 01-06-2020 – 30-11-2022
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 109,501.11 €
Grant amount: 98,551 €
Amnesty International Slovensko
100 – Hundred
Main aim and activites:
The project is a 10-month campaign on social networks with a strong educational content involving celebrities and influencers. It will focus on 10 topics, which will be presented each month in online space by 10 celebrities; in offline space the campaign will last 12 months when topics will be presented in 2 schools and on 2 public events; these activities will be supported by targeted promotion on social networks, but also in the media targeted on children and young people.
Project timeline: 01-10-2020 – 31-03-2022
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 117,100 €
Grant amount: 99,535 €
Categories
1. Call Supported Projects
Projects supported in the program in 1. Call – Medium Grants
Film Generácia oz
Ask your Parents 89
Main aim and activites:
The project is a living memorial to the events of November 1989 in the former Czechoslovakia. In the form of a film documentary, an online portal and discussions related to screenings in secondary schools, independent cultural centers and alternative spaces, it translates historical events from history textbooks to the present, thus stimulating intergenerational dialogue. The main aim of the project is for the younger generation to ask their parents how they “remember” what they were doing these days to encourage inter-generational dialogue about the society and the position of human rights in it, about freedom and the promotion of democratic values.
Project timeline: 20-07-2019 – 19-11-2020
Project Partner 1: Známa firma s.r.o.
Project Partner 2: Ústav pamäti národa (The Nation´s Memory Institute)
Project eligible expenditure: 64,970 €
Grant amount: 58,473 €
Antikomplex.sk – občianske združenie
Small stories amid historical turmoil
Main aim and activites:
The project focuses on victims of the Nazis and on ethnic groups affected by post-war forced resettlement. It creates a rich database of victims of the Nazis and of people affected by postwar resettlement between Czechoslovakia and Hungary and connects them to the places they have once lived in. The project´s added value is its focus on the Hungarian minority in Slovakia, living together with the majority population in mixed territories, and border changes after the war. The number of witnesses from this target group is declining sharply and it is therefore necessary to do the research in this area as soon as possible in order to preserve valuable material.
Project timeline: 01-07-2019 – 31-12-2020
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2:N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 49,810 €
Grant amount: 44,829 €
Pôtoň
Misery in Slovakia
Main aim and activites:
The project is a collection of 20 all-day educational events focused on human rights education, reducing xenophobic moods, radicalization and youth intolerance towards discriminated groups – with an emphasis on the group of “foreigners”. The aim of the project is to develop young people’s critical and empathetic thinking, to educate them about the human rights of vulnerable groups and to build civic awareness. It combines principles of art therapy, non-formal education and personal experience, which are applied in a safe and open environment.
Project timeline: 01-09-2019 – 28-02-2021
Project Partner 1: CVEK – Centre for the Research of Ethnicity and Culture
Project Partner 2: Mareena
Project eligible expenditure: 72,000 €
Grant amount: 64,800 €
Post Bellum SK
No identity without memory (interactive educational workshops)
Main aim and activites:
The project builds on the underlying premise that the most effective way of preventing all forms of discrimination, racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and other manifestations of intolerance is through educational activities for children and youth. Growing support for right-wing political groups and fascism among young people in Slovakia, large numbers of first-time voters casting their vote in the last parliamentary elections for a extremist party, motivated development and implementation of workshops.
Project timeline: 01-06-2019 – 31-07-2020
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 64,600 €
Grant amount: 58,140 €