Projects supported in the program in 3. Call
Strategic Grants:
Foundation for Children of Slovakia
Strategy to promote inclusive education
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to create strategies to support and develop inclusive education at the level of specific local governments, either by creating a new strategy or by modifying and supplementing existing strategies in the field of education, which local governments already have. The project also pursues several sub-objectives, such as the means of creating a favorable environment at the community level that would support inclusive values and inclusive education. The project focuses on identifying needs and networking of actors who can contribute to the better implementation of inclusive education at the level of kindergartens and primary schools – in addition to the aforementioned founders, there are mainly primary and kindergartens operating in the city. groups of disadvantaged children (eg organizations that deal with children with health or mental disabilities, organizations working in the marginalized Roma community, organizations that deal with the leisure time of children and young people). The key players, primary schools and kindergartens, will be involved and supported through workshops and their interconnections. The project will scale the results and examples of good practice to other local governments in the future, but also to policy makers at the state administration level. The project will be implemented in three districts, namely Nové Zámky, Banská Bystrica and Poltár.
Project timeline: 2021-10-15 – 15-5-2023
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 91 503,33 €
Grant amount: 82 353,00 €
For our water
Protection of drinking water of Žitný ostrov – the highest public interest
Main aim and activites:
The project entitled Protection of Drinking Water on Žitný ostrov (ŽO) – the highest public interest focuses on water endangerment as a strategic raw material on Žitný ostrov. Water is endangered mainly by agriculture and human activity and remains an existential public interest in Slovakia. The inhabitants of ŽO do not realize how close underground the water supplies are and how vulnerable they are. The project focuses on enlightenment from the youngest in schools, to the whole community and mayors on Žitný ostrov. It follows the draft policy for pesticide monitoring (supported in the 1 st call of ACF program) and we will finalize it in the form of a practical methodology-policy for Ministry of work and social affairs and family of Slovak republic
For Our Water wants to implement the project through four main activities:
- Organization of eco-educational activities at schools in municipalities at ŽO,
- Organization of educational and community activities in municipalities at ŽO
- Improving the practical protection of drinking water in the environment by effective monitoring of pesticides
- Preparation of a draft of the General Binding Regulation on water management in protected areas, it will be presented to the mayors of municipalities on Žitný ostrov and will also be made available to mayors in other protected areas in Slovakia.
Project timeline: 2021-12-1 – 2023-11-30
Project Partner 1: Náttúruverndarsamtök Íslands / Iceland Nature Conservation Association
Partner 2 projektu: Duna Vit
Project eligible expenditure: 126 267,78 €
Grant amount: 113 641,00 €
Ambrela
EduGlobe – the way to the implementation of the National Strategy for Global Education
Main aim and activites:
The goal of the Eduglobe project is to ensure the participation of students, teachers, schools and NGOs in the process of creating, implementing and monitoring the new National Strategy for Global Education (NS GE). The reality of the COVID-19 global pandemic, the climate crisis, misinformation and hoaxes, as well as the polarized society, create demand for solutions in every part of the state and society, from economics, the environment to political life.
The project will strengthen the networking and expert capacities of the working group Global Education Ambrely, through which it will ensure quality inputs of its members into the process of creating NS GE in cooperation with Ministry of education SR. Ambrela will influence the quality of NS GE implementation through monitoring, supported by a public information campaign.
The main activities of the project are:
- It shall support the active functioning of the Global Learning Task Force and ensure Ambrela’s capacity to expand it. It will do so both by mobilizing and increasing the frequency of communication of the Ambrely Secretariat with Ambrely member organizations, as well as through the active expansion of Ambrely’s membership base by organizations active in the field of civic education and value-oriented education in Slovakia.
- It will strive to include the requirements and proposals of NGOs associated in the GV working group in the new NS GV, which will be prepared in 2021 and 2022 by the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the international organization GENE (Global Education Network). Objectives of the strategy and tools for measuring progress in its implementation. After the adoption of the strategy by the Government of the Slovak Republic, Ambrela will enter the process of evaluating the first year of implementation of the strategy.
- To strengthen the impact of the strategy and increase the pressure on its quality implementation by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Slovak Republic, Ambrela will implement a massive information campaign.
Project timeline: 2021-10-15 – 2023-4-15
Project Partner 1: Centre for Collaborative Learning for Sustainable Development
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 119 098,89 €
Grant amount: 107 189 €
Slovak organization for research and development activities
Slovakia after Covid-19. How will a pandemic change our lives?
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to implement a participatory process of public policy preparation in key areas in response to the COVID19 pandemic. The project will focus on the analysis of further development and adaptation of society to the effects of the pandemic. By involving researchers and innovators from different fields, the applicant identifies the main challenges, changes that will affect post-pandemic developments in society, the economy and everyday life. Subsequently, recommendations for reforms and policies in the given areas will be formulated. The project represents a unique opportunity to create a comprehensive set of recommendations and proposals that should be taken into account in post-pandemic development when formulating policies and setting up recovery and adaptation processes. The outputs of the project will be available and will form the expert basis for public discussion and decision-making by political representatives in the coming years. The prepared methodology, as well as the experience of the project, will be possible to use even after the end of the pandemic. The project also aims to gain insight into the likely social and economic development in the Slovak Republic in the next decade, based on the opinions of researchers and innovators, and thus provide policy makers with an expert view of potential further developments. Researchers’ expertise is already helping to address the pandemic in a significant way. The project reflects the needs of the following target groups:
– Public policy makers to provide decision-making from excellent researchers.
– Public administration at all levels, which will use the outputs in the formulation and implementation of public policies.
– Researchers and innovators who will be involved in the process and provide their expert opinion.
– Civil society to engage in a public debate on the necessary changes and reforms. She will also be able to use the outputs of the projects for her activities.
Project timeline: 2021-11-1 – 2023-5-31
Project Partner 1: Žijem vedu
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 109 433,34 €
Grant amount: 98 490 €
Categories
2. Call Supported Projects
Projects supported in the program in 2. Call
Medium Grants:
Cyklokoalícia
Advocacy for sustainable mobility for all
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to defend the public interest in the field of sustainable mobility accessible to all, as its support is currently insufficient in Slovakia, with regard to pedestrian and bicycle transport. This will be achieved through changes in specific national policies, watchdog activities in the development of strategies, or specific measures at the local level, as well as awareness-raising activities educating the professional public, and programs supporting young local initiatives in this field. The project will significantly strengthen bilateral cooperation. The project partner, Reykjavík’s Environment and Planning Department, will contribute its expertise and experience in the field of sustainable mobility to improving the quality of project results.
Project timeline: 01-09-2020 – 31-01-2022
Project Partner 1: City of Reykjavik, Department of Environment and Planning
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 71,480 €
Grant amount: 64,332 €
IPčko
Safety hotlines legislation and cooperation with state rescue services
Main aim and activites:
Ipčko is dealing with the alarming situation in the area of providing assistance to young people. The state has not addressed this situation for a long time. Helplines often help people in a suicidal crisis, victims of crime or violence.Helpines therefore contact the rescue services and carry out the notification obligation. However, setting up the rescue system and the law itself forgets that the counselor is not in personal contact with the client and only has his IP address. However, rescue services require detailed information (name, age, place) that the hotlines cannot provide. In cases where it is literally about life, the whole process is complicated. From the point of view of the law, lines of trust are perceived as civic activism, which results in serious restrictions that helpines encounter during the reporting obligation in acute crisis situations, when the life, health or safety of a young person is endangered. The project would address the cooperation of rescue services and hotlines and further systematically set up the system. Trainings of other actors 150, 155, 158 in the area of providing crisis intervention will be provided.
Project timeline: 01-05-2020 – 31-10-2021
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 71,714.44 €
Grant amount: 64,543 €
Druživa
Beginning of the development of social agriculture in Slovakia
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to start the process of systematic development of social agriculture in Slovakia and also reduce the insufficient amount of information on the benefits, impacts and needs of social agriculture. The project is an output of the Working Group for Social Agriculture in Slovakia. This project will address the almost non-existent systematic development of this concept. With the assistance of a partner from Norway, Druživa o.z. will start development and achieve changes in legislation. Other activities of the project include discussion with the professional and general public, assistance in the establishment of social farms, education and provision of services for actors of social agriculture and their networking. The project will also contribute to the development of bilateral cooperation. The role of the Norwegian partner in the project is advisory and mentoring activities during the project implementation.
Project timeline: 01-06-2020 – 30-11-2021
Project Partner 1: Norwegian University College for Agriculture and Rural Development
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 93,447.06 €
Grant amount: 79,430 €
Strategic Grants:
Transparency International Slovensko
Where our money go to?
Main aim and activites:
A project called Who is running for our money? Will strengthen the functioning of the anti-page law, a new global anti-corruption tool. The core of the activities will consist in analyzing Slovak practice, strengthening the ability of the civil sector to control the register of company ownership and in the proposal to improve the law with the help of international exchange of experience. The newly created map of the owners of Slovak hotels or restaurants will also bring the topic to citizens in an understandable way, and will allow them to easily get involved in the fight against corruption in person. Transparency of company ownership is an important new part of the anti-corruption fight. Knowing where the money is going helps to disrupt corrupt schemes.
Project timeline: 01-07-2020 – 31-12-2022
Project Partner 1: Transparency International Norway
Project Partner 2: Tax Justice Network
Project eligible expenditure: 133.326,67 €
Grant amount: 119,994 €
VIA IURIS
Pillars of the rule of law
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to improve the functioning of the rule of law in Slovakia. The Prosecutor’s Office, the Constitutional Court and the Judicial Council are key guarantors of the rule of law. The aim of the project is to design and implement system changes to eliminate the biggest shortcomings in their operation. Based on the analysis of their decision-making activities, legislation and application practice, the VI will prepare proposals for systemic changes, for which we will seek the support of the government and the institutions themselves, which are to be affected by the changes. A great added value of the project is the intensive cooperation with the professional public during the entire implementation.
Project timeline: 01-09-2020 – 28-02-2023
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 111,020 €
Grant amount: 99,918 €
Slovenská komora učiteľov
Promoting democratization in schools
Main aim and activites:
The project is focused on changing the atmosphere in school system and eliminating mobbing. If innovation in education is to be successful, it is first necessary to change the culture of schools, eliminate mobbing, and introduce the principles of democracy, participation and inclusion in the environment and school management. The Chamber has extensive experience in advocacy, cooperation, media and the legislative process. In the presented project, it wants to implement action research and campaigns to collect fear and democracy in schools, prepare proposals for amendments to laws, education, methodologies and model documents aimed at democratic culture in schools. The project takes a targeted and systematic approach to the issue of Slovak education and creates a foothold for the change of the school system from below. The outputs of the project will media and advocacy campaign, sample documents for school administration, accredited school programmes, legislation changes.
Project timeline: 01-07-2020 – 28-02-2022
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 107,421.11 €
Grant amount: 96.679 €
Poradňa pre občianske a ľudské práva
Promoting the human rights of the Roma minority through the use of legal remedies and in cooperation with local Roma activists
Main aim and activites:
The Roma people in our society continue to face discrimination or other violations of their rights. The project aims to contribute to the observance of the human rights of the Roma minority, with an emphasis on marginalized groups, while taking into account the current state of protection of the rights of the Roma minority and the wider social reality and related challenges in this area. The project will contribute to reducing manifestations of discrimination against the Roma minority through the active application of legal remedies in specific strategic cases and the implementation of other closely related activities, such as monitoring and advocacy in relation to responsible state institutions. The counseling center will implement the project activities in close cooperation with Roma activists.
Project timeline: 01-06-2020 – 30-09-2022
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 109,900 €
Grant amount: 83,409 €
Fenestra
What protection and support does the current system of women experiencing violence and their children guarantee?
Main aim and activites:
In Slovakia, one in three women, more than 23%, will experience violence during their lifetime (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 2014). The responsibility for protecting women from violence lies with the state. For ten years, however, the state has not monitored certain areas that are relevant to the theme Violence against women. The main goal of the project is to create tools for monitoring the system of protection and support of women in the Slovak Republic. The outcomes of the projects will be provided to other civil society organizations. The main activities of the project are: Map and prepare a status analysis, process the results on a recommendation and prepare a comprehensive report. These outputs will be used for advocacy activities and the opening of a dialogue with relevant actors. International institutions will also be informed about the results of the project.
Project timeline: 01-01-2021 – 30-06-2023
Project Partner 1: Hana (civil organisation)
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 96 687,88 €
Grant amount: 87 019 €
Categories
1. Call Supported Projects
Projects supported in the program in 1. Call
Medium Grants:
Aevis
Less barrier for more nature benefits
Main aim and activites:
The project is aimed at defending public interests and removing barriers for more efficient and sustainable exploitation of natural resources in protected areas in Slovakia. Its output is the elaboration of legal analysis and proposal of changes, analysis of related strategic documents, elaboration of surveys and examples of good practice from abroad from a Norwegian partner, promotion of 2 public policies at regional and local level and public involvement through lobbying and activation activities.
Project timeline: 01-05-2019 – 31-10-2020
Project Partner 1: Linking Tourism & Conservation Society (LT&C)
Project Partner 2: VIA IURIS
Project eligible expenditure: 79 969,50 €
Grant amount: 71 972 €
Stredoeurópsky inštitút pre výskum práce (Central European Labour Studies Institute, CELSI)
I want to work, who will help me? Enhancing cooperation between policy makers and the non-profit sector in integrating disadvantaged people into the labor market
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to support a more systematic cooperation in the employment of persons with disabilities between 4 types of organizations (state administration, NGOs, trade unions, employers). The project includes an analysis of legislation and implementation practice of persons with disabilities and their labor integration (including people after treatment of civilization diseases, people with disabilities, people of Roma origin and homeless) in Slovakia and Norway, which will serve to strengthen these actors in Slovakia and better policy setting in the future.
Project timeline: 01-06-2019 – 31-10-2020
Project Partner 1: University of South-Eastern Norway, Department of Health, Social and Welfare Studies
Project Partner 2: Inštitút pre dobre spravovanú spoločnosť
Project eligible expenditure: 79,901 €
Grant amount: 71,910 €
Inštitút pre dobre spravovanú spoločnosť
Participatory Creation of Community Plan of Social Services: Pilot Project Karlova Ves
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is community planning in a specific self-government city part of Bratislava ( municipality Bratislava IV) using participation in close cooperation with its employees. The entire process, including the inclusion of all relevant vulnerable groups, will be described in the manual. This will serve as a basis for planning for other municipalities. The output will also be a draft general binding regulation on the obligation of continuous participatory community planning.
Project timeline: 01-05-2019 – 31-08-2020
Project Partner 1: Fakulta sociálnych a ekonomických vied
Project Partner 2: Mestská časť Karlova Ves
Project eligible expenditure: 50,275.88 €
Grant amount: 45,248 €
Škola dokorán – Wide Open School
REYN Slovakia – A network of educators working with Roma children at an early childhood
Main aim and activites:
The project aims to strengthen the network of educators – Roma Early Years Network Slovakia, in order to create an influential advocacy platform, actively influencing policies in the field of early childhood education and their parents at local, regional and national level. This platform will aim and be responsible for positive change in climate and environment in which Roma children develop and educate.
Project timeline: 01-07-2019 – 31-12-2020
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 60,087.54 €
Grant amount: 54,078 €
Cyklokoalícia
Defense of public interest in sustainable mobility
Main aim and activites:
The project aims to defend public interests in the field of sustainable mobility, whose support is currently insufficient in Slovakia. The aim will be achieved by advocacy at national and local level in combination with educational and awareness-raising activities. The Cyclo-Coalition project has many years of experience with all the above-mentioned activities. The results will be specifically affected by policies as well as an increase in citizen involvement, which will create an appropriate environment for continued positive change.
Project timeline: 01-06-2019 – 31-07-2020
Project Partner 1: Syklistenes Landsforening
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 79,204 €
Grant amount: 71,283 €
Za našu vodu
Drinking water as an existential public interest
Main aim and activites:
Through the For Our Water civic association, which has its organizational structure and creates space through a website and press conferences, a public dialogue on the protection of drinking water is possible. As part of the “Don’t Drink Water!” Campaign, the civic association For Our Water supported more than 5,000 people and many of them also contributed financially to the analysis of their drinking water. These analyzes were provided by the civic association For Our Water by an independent, accredited laboratory. As part of the new ‘Water Quality We Drink’ campaign, the Civic Association plans four new initiatives to gather information on public / private decision-making and, in the spirit of these four initiatives, will prepare four policy proposals and thus potentially four legal actions.
Project timeline: 01-05-2019 – 30-04-2020
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 39,454.44 €
Grant amount: 35,509 €
Strategic Grants:
LIPANA
Children don’t wait!
Main aim and activites:
The project called “Children Don’t Wait!” Is a project designed to help pro-active attitude of all stakeholders to quality changes in education system in Slovakia according to the slogan “We create quality school together”. By effectively combining the forces of diverse groups of actors in education, as well as communicating with the general public through the media, we can take the first step towards a truly good reform of education in Slovakia. The aim of the project – in the interest of children – is a partnership dialogue between all project actors in order to find a common one by constructive discussion good legislative and non-legislative solutions in the field of education.
Project timeline: 01-05-2019 – 14-01-2022
Project Partner 1: Spolok SKIS – félag slóvakíska á Íslandi
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 105,645.56 €
Grant amount: 95,081 €
Občan, demokracia a zodpovednosť
Let us take seriously the needs of women in childbirth! Together, we promote the human rights of women in public health policies
Main aim and activites:
Childbirth care is a public interest and therefore a matter for everyone. It occurs massive violations of women’s human rights. The project aims to increase public control, networking of NGOs and NGOs creating coordinated pressure on institutions with responsibilities. In cooperation with partners from Norway and Slovakia we carry out research and repeat monitoring. Based on the findings, we will create solutions. In cooperation with the the media will influence public discourse and put pressure on institutions with powers.
Project timeline: 01-05-2019 – 30-04-2021
Project Partner 1: Faculty of Health Science, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
Project Partner 2: Ženské kruhy
Project eligible expenditure: 132,994.44 €
Grant amount: 119,695 €
PRALES
We want better and more effective nature protection
Main aim and activites:
The project aims to initiate large-scale systemic changes in nature conservation with the aim to increase the quality and effectiveness of nature protection in Slovakia and to open a wider public debate on these changes. Within the project, we plan to actively participate in the creation of a new Concept of Nature and Landscape Protection by 2030 and elaborate a proposal for concrete changes in the Nature and Landscape Protection Act. The project also includes watchdog activities aimed at monitoring and evaluating the spending of financial resources (EU funds, national resources) intended for nature protection.
Project timeline: 01-05-2019 – 31-12-2021
Project Partner 1: My sme les
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 99,910.80 €
Grant amount: 89,919 €
Aliancia Fair-play
Proposals to: increase credibility and create the conditions for more effective and faster action by law enforcement agencies
Main aim and activites:
Police is the key institution of the rule of law. According to Eurobarometer (March 2018) only 38 percent of the Slovak public trust the police. The project wants to trigger changes in the speed of the investigation. First, by creating pressure to collect speed and speed data obstacles in the investigation, as well as an analysis of the police procedure in investigating complaints. Based on Aliancia Fair Play findings propose measures to streamline investigations, speed up investigation procedures and improve quality and transparency police decision making.
Project timeline: 01-05-2019 – 30-09-2021
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 105,894.44 €
Grant amount: 95,305 €