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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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