Projects supported in the program in 3. Call.
Meno nadácie
Amalka – early care in the home environment of Roma excluded families
Main aim and activites:
The development of children in Roma excluded environment is negatively affected by their living conditions. Crucially, the period of the first years of a child’s life, if the child does not have the necessary support in development, is difficult to correct later. The aim of the project is to continue working with mothers/ parents/ grandparents of children and children from the birth in their home environment through the active participation of 10 Amalka – mentors of early intervention – mothers directly from the Roma community. Other activities are to provide counselling on the premises of the community centre, to carry out educational activities for mothers/families with new-borns/with babies/ pre-schoolers, in accompanying adolescent future moms and mothers of new-borns. The aim is to actively continue to involve women from the community as mentors – more experienced mothers from families who have been involved in the activities of the organization for several years, who already have children and experiences of their own. As part of the project, the organization will prepare methodological materials for parents – leaflets on different parental topics. The project also aims to scale its activities to three other locations. The project is a continuation of a successful project implemented through the 1st and 2nd call, with both qualitative and quantitative growth.
Project timeline: 1.1.2022 – 31.12.2022
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 22 388,06 €
Grant amount: 15 000,00 €
nezisková organizácia Projekt DOM.ov
Improving the quality of life of vulnerable groups
Main aim and activites:
The main objective of the project is to improve the quality of life of families from marginalized Roma communities in Gemer and Novohrad regions. At the same time to develop their community and kick-start the process of creating new functional neighbourhoods. Secondary objectives are to increase the financial literacy, employability and employment of the Roma population involved in the project. The activities of the project are based on combining a program of self-help construction of single-family houses with intensive social work and education. Clients have to go through preparation, financial education and the financial savings phase in order to qualify for microcredit for housing. They will then be assisted in the construction of the house and assistance to municipalities in providing the necessary technical infrastructure for the houses. Part of the process is the job consulting for the clients of the program, which will be provided by the project partner Agentura prace BBSK. Slovenska Sporitelna bank, another important partner in the project, will provide clients of the project with a loan for building materials within the framework of social banking.
Project timeline: 1.1.2022 – 31.12.2022
Project Partner 1: Agentúra práce BBSK, n.o.
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16 663,33 €
Grant amount: 14 997,00 €
Občianske združenie Zábavné momenty
“Discover your abilities “
Main aim and activites:
The main objective of the project is to support young girl from Roma community so they do not lose self-worth. By carrying out activities, the applicant wants to develop various possibilities of self-realization for young girls, in particular to highlight the importance of continuation of secondary school studies and the selection of future employment. The project is aimed to contribute to the autonomy, self-esteem and self-realization of young Roma girls. Activities are focused on the following areas:
- educational – education in the field of secondary school choice, sex education, financial literacy;
- physical – organization of regular trainings and lectured hours in rented premises of a civic association;
- motivation – motivation to achieve steadiness in the activities carried out, strengthening mental training, building in people the ability to set goals, visualize success, the ability to find solutions and not justifications for unfeasibility;
- educational – education on sports discipline, mutual tolerance and adherence of ethical principles in joint trainings.
The project is a continuation of a successful project implemented in the 2nd call, shifting the focus to young girls (formerly young boys) and extending cooperation to local primary school.
Project timeline: 1.11.2021 – 31.7.2022
Project Partner 1: Primary school with kindergarten in Trhoviste
Project Partner 2: The municipality of Trhoviste
Project eligible expenditure: 16 277,78 €
Grant amount: 14 650,00 €
OZ Partnerstvo pre sociálne inovácie
We also want a Chance 2.
Main aim and activites:
Children and young people at Lunik IX in Kosice do not have the same starting line to life, including entering and operating in a school environment, in society, which is reflected in their low school success, self-esteem, life skills, or success in applications at the labour market. The aim of the project is therefore to:
- Help them with school success – regular tutoring and mentoring, implemented directly in the community. Education will take place through active methods of learning (Heyne method, interactive forms) with a focus on improving their verbal expression, imagination, modality (FIE method, Sfumato).
- Mediate opportunities of a cultural, social, educational nature to which they do not have access and which will help them to be in better interaction with the majority society, bring them experiences that are not common to them and will motivating them to achieve higher life goals. These activities will be carried out together with children and youth from the majority environment. The project is a continuation of a successful project implemented in the 2nd call.
Project timeline: 1.10.2021 -30.9.2022
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16 430,00 €
Grant amount: 14 787,00 €
Komunitné Centrum Menšín, občianske združenie, Veľký Krtíš
Empowering Roma in Velky Krtis
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to strengthen the participation and status of vulnerable groups from marginalized Roma communities, improve their housing, increase health protection through prevention, promote financial literacy – education and create an advocation group from representatives of the target group. Main activities of the project:
- Creation of an advocation group from the members of the target group;
- Mapping community needs – community fieldwork to identify community needs;
- Work of the Petitions Group – preparation and implementation of petition action according to community needs, organization of roundtables with stakeholders in order to achieve the objectives set;
- Work of field care workers and community workers – performance of community work in the field;
- .Educational activities and promotion of health literacy;
- Promoting participation and building the responsibility of the target group in improving housing conditions.
Project timeline: 1.10.2021 -30.6.2022
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 15 000,00 €
Grant amount: 13 500,00 €
Centrum vzdelávania a odbornej pomoci o.z.
Equal chances for everyone
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to provide advice on finding work and preparing for the work process for Roma from the District of Velky Krtis and at the same time to educate pupils of the 8th and 9th grades of primary school in Krasnohorske Podhradie, which is attended by 100% of Roma pupils and motivated them to apply and continue study at secondary school. The main activities of the project are: a) job counselling – within this activity the counsellor and mentor will provide counselling and support in finding a job and preparing for a job interview; b) mentoring at school – within this activity, a special pedagogue will motivate students to continue their studies at secondary school; c) feedback from project participants and evaluation of project aims and activities The project is a continuation of a successful project implemented in the 2nd call, in which it extends activities to Roma youth.
Project timeline: 1.11.2021 -31.8.2022
Project Partner 1: Kamenárstvo STONE s.r.o., Sady nad Torysou
Project Partner 2: Primary school Krásnohorské Podhradie
Project eligible expenditure: 16 288,89 €
Grant amount: 14 660,00 €
Podnik medzitrhu práce, n.o., r.s.p.
Application of social innovation and development of social enterprise
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to avoid the process of excluding marginalized individuals, to contribute to the development of a positive social perception of vulnerable people through their integration in social enterprise, to create opportunities in the field of education and employment, to provide social and career counselling. The main activities of the project include job counselling, practical courses and trainings, activities for development and support of social enterprise. By investing in social enterprise, the sustainability of the project is secured.
At the end the project should have impact on increase the Roma people acceptance at local level and to minimize the gap between Roma and Non-Roma. The project provides career guidance, focuses on upskilling and thus contributes to increasing the employability of disadvantaged people. The project is a continuation of project implemented in the 1st call.
Project timeline: 1.11.2021 – 31.12.2022
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16 633,33 €
Grant amount: 14 970,00
SPOLU – Slovensko
THIS is our city, too
Main aim and activites:
The main objective of the project is to change local policies in Levoca and Spisská Nova Ves concerning Roma living in selected marginalized communities. This objective is to be achieved by activating local Roma and involving them in public and political life. The project is also intended to improve communication and consequently the relationship between the Roma and the people from the majority. The project will be implemented through the following activities: regular meetings of the working team, evaluation of city documents concerning the Roma community, discussion forums, the establishment of negotiating groups with Roma participation, discussions with the public in the streets of cities, negotiations with opinion-forming people and deputies, the creation of new policies for the Roma community and their submitting to self-governing bodies and other stakeholders.
Project timeline: 1.4.2022 – 30.9.2022
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 9 300,00 €
Grant amount: 8 370,00 €
Silnejší slabším
Intergenerational learning in practice
Main aim and activites:
The project aims to acquire practical skills of the disabled, including Roma, that they could use in their next life. As part of intergenerational learning, seniors in particular will pass on their experience to youngsters and teach them various skills and techniques. They will be able to learn these skills by working directly in the community to improve public places. Main activities of the project: planning meetings to identify the objectives and needs of the target group and the need for changes in the surroundings; voluntary activities; educational workshops; sightseeing trips, sessions. The project connects different population groups in the development of their village, environmental development and self-development. The project will increase civic participation, the project aims to contribute to the demolition of prejudices and the improvement of mutual relations.
Project timeline: 1.11.2021 – 31.1.2023
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16 665,56 €
Grant amount: 14 999,00 €
Hviezdička tanečné štúdio
Dancing in the Roma community
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to integrate Roma children into physical and dance training, leading them to regular dance activities. The project contributes to empowering and skills of vulnerable populations, especially Roma from marginalized communities in Velka Ida municipality. After-school physical activities are undoubtedly necessary, especially in locations without suitable possibilities for self-realization of children. By creating dance choreography, the project will give Roma children the opportunity to present themselves in public which will help to increase mutual tolerance between pupils of majority and minority. The project is a continuation of a successful project carried out in the 1st and 2nd calls, with previously children in wheelchairs being handicapped by the target group.
Project timeline: 1.10.2021 – 31.8.2022
Project Partner 1: Primary school Velka Ida
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16 665,56 €
Grant amount: 14 999,00 €
Bratislavské dobrovoľnícke centrum
Development of volunteering II.
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to involve people in volunteering for the benefit of disadvantaged groups (vulnerable groups and people with socially disadvantaged backgrounds, low-income families, women experiencing violence, seniors, homeless people, Roma, children and young people under 15, foreigners, disabled or otherwise disadvantaged individuals and groups), mainly through voluntary programs and projects. Emphasis will also be placed on involving disadvantaged individuals and groups in volunteering in order to acquire new skills, experiences, work habits and to integrate them into the community and use the volunteering experience in future studies or work. In one of the municipalities in the Bratislava region an INFOBOD of the voluntary centre will be created, which will increase the level of work with the disadvantaged in the village as well as in the region. The project is a continuation of a successful project carried out in the 2nd.
Project timeline: 1.1.2022 – 28.2.2023
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16 000,00 €
Grant amount: 14 400,00 €
Národné tréningové centrum práce SK, n.o.
TWO hands of MUMS //2
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to stimulate new business plans, ideas and innovations of mums from Eastern Slovakia, to support their entrepreneurial skills and to increase self-esteem, to highlight the potential and uniqueness of handmade creation for entrepreneurship through successful examples from practice, and to establish the brand TWO hands I have as a tool to educate and inspire women on parental leave. The main activity of the project is creative workshops led by experts who will guide the target group through a creative process from idea to setting up their own business. The project is a continuation of a successful project implemented in the 2nd call with involving mothers living in crisis intervention centres on top of that in present project.
Project timeline: 1.1.2022 – 31.10.2022
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16 574,44 €
Grant amount: 14 917,00 €
Bol raz jeden človek
Hento Toto III. Phase
Main aim and activites:
Project Hento Toto is an innovative model of working integration of people with intellectual disabilities “the sketchers” in order to turn their artistic hobby (drawing, graphics) into work and offer an alternative to a sheltered workshop. The idea is to make Hento Toto innovative, financially self-sufficient and sustainable model of work inclusion that would also inspire other organizations working with people with intellectual disabilities. The aim of phase III is to complement the team with other graphic designers, illustrators and designers and, in addition to creating their own products, to carry out custom production for companies, to continue preparing adepts for the drawing position and to create a business strategy based on the collected data, to enter the Czech and German markets and to increase the number of partner stores. The project is a continuation of a successful project implemented in the 1st and 2nd calls, while moving up at both qualitative and quantitative level. Hento Toto becomes a well-known brand with a long-term sustainability perspective.
Project timeline: 1.10.2021 – 30.9.2022
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16 660,00 €
Grant amount: 14 994,00 €
HANS
IdeaStart
Main aim and activites:
The project focuses on supporting employment opportunities for people with disabilities (Asperger’s syndrome and autism) and young people and elderly from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. It will provide them with training in financial literacy, business fundamentals, online business and security, all adapted to their specific needs. Work-rehabilitation activities will be implemented to help them acquire practical skills. The aim is also to prepare the conditions for the creation of a social enterprise. The implementation of the project will enable the implementation of an educational program tailored to this specific target group, networking of various local producers of upcycled products or home-made products and involving the target group in e-shop management and possible transformation into a social enterprise.
Project timeline: 1.11.2021 – 31.10.2022
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16 594,44 €
Grant amount: 14 935,00 €
Nadácia Milana Šimečku
Look Up Stand Up
Main aim and activites:
The project offers non-formal educational activities (trainings, community meetings, consultations) for young people from four excluded communities with the intention of creating joint campaigns on diversity, discrimination and social inclusion. Campaigns addressed primarily to local actors will have a methodological basis for storytelling, building positive narratives and communication models that increase public support, depolarize society and actively involve disadvantaged youth. Main phases of the project:
1) creating local partnerships, identifying the needs and barriers of the target group that they feel in relation to social inclusion;
2) analysis of findings and setting up effective tools in cooperation with local actors;
3) trainings in individual communities.
The project involves a target group of young people from marginalized communities whose voice is losing ground in local policies in communication on tackling inclusion. It is a combination of active citizenship, community organization and campaigns using positive narratives, which gives a strong potential for the involvement of disadvantaged youth in polarized communities.
Project timeline: 1.11.2021 – 31.10.2022
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 18 069,88 €
Grant amount: 14 998,00 €
Pre človeka
By film we break down prejudices
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to contribute to the reduction of discrimination and the elimination of prejudice against the Roma. This goal will be pursued through the production of 4 films and 12 podcasts about the Roma, which will be presented in a virtual space, in schools, in community centres. The films will bring an undistorted view of the lives of Roma teenagers, their possibilities and abilities. The other category of films are films about Roma who have found employment in society and are an example for the Roma and non-Roma public. The intention is also to alleviate the negative attitude and prejudices of the majority society through films and podcasts. The project uses modern online tools to provide a realistic picture of people from marginalized Roma communities in order to alleviate tensions between the Roma minority and the majority. The applicant implements the project in the 2nd call, with a different focus, even if it is also a Roma minority as a target group.
Project timeline: 1.11.2021 – 31.10.2022
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16 664,44 €
Grant amount: 14 998,00 €
Protect work
Development of skills for the labour market
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to implement an accredited development program for unorganized youth and young people at risk of social exclusion in order to develop their key competences for life and the labour market by linking non-formal education, mentoring and implementing their own youth initiatives. The project will create a bridge between young people, important adults and involved municipalities, where it identifies current conditions and needs and proposes a Concept for Youth Work in the town of Malacky and surrounding villages. The purpose of education is to: 1. bring young people to experiences that formulate their values and 2. motivate young people to start working on themselves, reveal their strengths, discover their intrinsic motivation and to become civic activists on issues that concern them.
Project timeline: 1.11.2021 – 31.10.2022
Project Partner 1: Integrácia študentov o.z.
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 15 620,00 €
Grant amount: 14 058,00 €
MISIA MLADÝCH
Magic pyjamas
Main aim and activites:
The Magic Pyjamas project shall contribute to strengthening the improvement of the access of a vulnerable group of single mothers and Roma women to income in order to strengthen them economically by supporting self-sufficiency and developing social entrepreneurship. The main activity is the teaching them of sewing, which will take place under an experienced teacher so that the involved woman at the end of the course can sew pyjamas in a professional quality, which can also be intended for sale on the open market. Pyjama overalls are intended for children from socially excluded communities from all over Slovakia. The skills acquired by the project participants can continue to be used in the future, also due to the fact that the sewing machines purchased from the project will remain available to the project participants in the local organizations after the end of the project.
Project timeline: 1.5.2022 – 31.12.2022
Project Partner 1: Občianske združenie Rovnováha
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16 420,00 €
Grant amount: 14 778,00 €
Šedý medveď
THANKS A LOT FOR HELP
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is social inclusion and intergenerational cooperation in the field of new media and information and communication technologies. Through workshops, on-line networking and different online application connects seniors and youth in a unique way. The senior’s tailor-made community online magazines and social innovation Web of memories brings already together 24 places. In the form of interactive workshops, it motivates them to come out of social isolation, it reflects on their need for self-realization. Through the active participation of young people, the project contributes to changing the perception of seniors by the young generation. The applicant has a wide network of cooperating municipalities, schools and other entities at local level. In the period of forced isolation of the elderly, this project is very useful and necessary. The project is a continuation of a successful project implemented in the 2nd call.
Project timeline: 1.11.2021 – 31.10.2022
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 20 000,00 €
Grant amount: 15 000,00 €
Štúdio Zážitku Outward Bound Slovensko
Barrier-free paddling
Main aim and activites:
The aim is to use outdoor experiential education with an emphasis on the personal development of young people with disabilities and help them to be successful in life. Barrier-free paddling brings new opportunities to discover your strengths, acquire new skills, set your own goals in an environment that almost erases differences in disability. The development of soft skills and determination aims to increase the chances of finding this target group in the labour market. The main activity of the project is 20 paddling workshops without barriers and mentoring for the target group, while specially adapted kayaks will be provided. The project offers an interesting form of involvement of young people with visual or hearing disabilities in sports activities. After the successful implementation of the project, the applicant plans to conduct such “mobile / traveling” workshops in other places in Slovakia.
Project timeline: 1.12.2021 – 30.11.2022
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16 486,67 €
Grant amount: 14 838,00 €
OZ Margarétka Lovinobaňa
Work skills and social competences to increase the living standards of the Roma
Main aim and activites:
The project focuses on strengthening the position of Roma communities by increasing parental competencies and work skills. The development of parental competencies focuses on the general development of children, good hygiene and eating habits, educational assistance. The development of work skills focuses on working in a community garden, farm and carpentry workshop. The aim of the project is to increase the standard of living and increase the chances of finding a job in society and on the labour market.
Project timeline: 1.11.2021 – 31.10.2022
Project Partner 1: Vaša charita, n.o.
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16 665,56 €
Grant amount: 14 999,00 €
Slavonic o.z.
For a more beautiful autumn of life
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is strengthening of socialization of clients of facilities for the elderly and social service homes by socio-cultural life and active dismantling of anti-aging. The benefit of the project is the reintroduction of social activities into the lives of people enclosed between four walls with the impossibility of leaving them. The preparation of the project takes place throughout the year by communicating with individual facilities and finding the most suitable date for them and then organizing concert in chosen facilities. In the event of the closure of facilities due to a pandemic, a plan of online concerts and concerts in the exteriors of sanitary facilities is prepared, as long as they have suitable premises. The online stream will be broadcast via the Internet and the artists will communicate with clients. Based on such a transfer, they will have a full experience of the program.
Project timeline: 1.10.2021 – 30.9.2022
Project Partner 1: Kultúrna spoločnosť
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 15 890,00 €
Grant amount: 14 301,00 €
Medium Grants:
Centrum včasnej intervencie Prešov
Mobile application for early detection of children with autism for marginalized groups
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to bring to Slovakia a mobile application that would significantly improve the early detection of autism at young children in marginalized groups, including the Roma community, and provide parents with visual support in the form of in-app videos to help understand and perceive autistic behavior at their children. At the same time, if the parent himself has doubts about the child’s risky development and fills in the diagnostic questionnaire in the ASDetect mobile application independently in the safety of his home, resp. with the help of a social worker, will receive support in the form of a printed output with a professional guarantee for communication with the doctor. ASDetect is a mobile application running via Android and Apple on a mobile or tablet, it is free and accessible globally (currently only in English, Spanish and Chinese). It is designed to give parents of children aged 11 to 30 months the opportunity to determine whether their child has or not a high probability of autism by assessing the early signs of autism in the child’s development based on a evidence-based methodology. It contains annotated videos demonstrating characteristic social and communication behavior at 12, 18 and 24 months, comparing non-autistic and autistic children.
Project timeline: 01-10-2021 – 31-03-2023
Project Partner 1: Akademické centrum pre výskum autizmu
Project Partner 2: Cesta von, o.z.
Project eligible expenditure: 58 810,00 €
Grant amount: 52 929,00 €
Relevant
We help, support and connect
Main aim and activites:
Several activities in the project are based on the current situation, where in the city of Prešov there is only one social enterprise dedicated to construction and no functional agencies of supported employment. At the same time young people after leaving the daily care do not have such a degree of disability that they can work in sheltered workshops. Although the sheltered workshop is one of the options that the project promoters will probably use in cooperation with the partner SED Veľký Slavkov in case they fail in initiating the establishment of a social enterprise. Within the vulnerable group of seniors, the project promoters perceive a tendency to move from institutional to community-based services. As the Relevant is managing a home care service, the organization also see the need for outreach services for seniors, which would need to be strengthened, in conjunction with the actual uncertainty in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic. The development of volunteering is necessary to support people in the opportunity to realize and grow through community service, increase their competencies, experience and skills for their personal and professional development, but also to give seniors the opportunity to participate in volunteering and thus reduce their possible feelings of uselessness and abandonment. At the same time, volunteering is important for connecting marginalized youth, which can help alleviate the social exclusion of people from vulnerable groups.
Project timeline: 01-11-2021 – 30-04-2023
Project Partner 1: Rytmus – od klienta k občanovi, z. ú.
Project Partner 2: SED Veľký Slavkov
Project eligible expenditure: 101 554,69 €
Grant amount: 64 995,00 €
Druživa, o.z.
SINZEM – Green spaces in the city and social innovations
Main aim and activites:
The project aims to create opportunities for self-realization and therapy of clients of the Jasanima social home, it will also include alternative natural solutions in the care of urban greenery, create opportunities for joint activities with the general public and educational activities for children and youth with the participation of these clients. The project will also create one job opportunity for a disadvantaged jobseeker with a view to creating more similar jobs in the future. This will be achieved by purchasing 4 sheep, which will create a permanent habitat in the area of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Rožňava and in the vicinity of the Jasanima social home, on a relatively large meadow, which will be grazed instead of mowing. The clients of the social home and the project promoters will take care of them together. In addition, the sheep will graze the selected grasslands in the city, which will bring not only an ecological approach, saving public finances but also a nice attraction in the city for the public. The employed shepherd will take care of the sheep in the field and their transport on the purchased cart will be provided by the municipal company Technical Services. In the future, in addition to payments from the city for grazing, sheep could graze land to private applicants, which would bring additional profit for the established social enterprise.
Project timeline: 01-11-2021 – 30-04-2023
Project Partner 1: JASANIMA – Domov sociálnych služieb
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 70 011,11 €
Grant amount: 63 010,00 €
Kategórie
2. Call Supported projects
Projects supported in the program in 2. Call.
Small Grants:
Detstvo deťom
Parental Center – Early intervention support center
Main aim and activites:
The project, within the relevant Roma community, focuses on the support of early care and parenting education, which is one of the most neglected areas for this vulnerable group. The development of children in marginalized Roma communities is negatively affected by their living conditions. The period of the first few years in a child’s life is crucial. The aim of this project is to continue activities oriented at working directly with babies from birth, toddlers, infants and preschoolers and their mothers directly in families at home through the active participation of mentors – mothers directly from the local community. The benefit of the project is the employment of two women/mothers from the community.
Project timeline: 01-07-2020 – 30-06-2021
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 20 000 €
Grant amount: 15 000 €
Združenie PRE LEPŠÍ ŽIVOT
Tailors’ workshop Romani SUV
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is the operation and professionalization of a tailoring workshop focused on the products of traditional Roma embroidery with the subsequent establishment of a social enterprise. A significant benefit of the project is the direct impact on the economic strengthening of the position of the target vulnerable group, as the project will increase the employability and employment of Roma women living in the village of Rankovce. Other benefits of the project are the preservation of tradition and the development of traditional Roma embroidery skills, the acquisition of practical skills and social competencies in project participants and the promotion of a positive example and richness of Roma culture towards the majority of the society. The project will contribute to the elimination of prejudices and stereotypes among the majority of the population in relation to the Roma. The association plans to involve 40 Roma women and girls from the marginalized Roma community in the project.
Project timeline: 01-06-2020 – 31-05-2021
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 22,388.06 €
Grant amount: 15,000 €
Centrum osvety a poradenstva – doškoľovacie centrum pre ďalšie vzdelávanie
From education to work
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to increase the readiness of disadvantaged and vulnerable applicants from the Revúca district for employment. The project wants to: Firstly: Increase the involvement of young, low-skilled, unemployed people into the training process needed to find a suitable job; Secondly: Improve the practical part of the education and training of disadvantaged applicants (severely disabled people, MRC) for the labor market, including individualized counseling activities. The project will also include a pilot development of methodology focused on practice/internship in a social operation environment. The association plans to involve 20 vulnerable people in the project.
Project timeline: 01-06-2020 – 30-04-2021
Project Partner 1: Wasco
Project Partner 2: Tréningové centrum miestnej a regionálnej zamestnanosti, o.z.
Project eligible expenditure: 16,600 €
Grant amount: 14,940 €
OZ pre podporu vzdelávania, výchovy a kultúry – ROMAD
Better life for a Roma woman
Main aim and activites:
The project focuses on the target group of about 200 girls and young women aged 13 to 20 years of Roma nationality, who show the characteristics of marginalization in a segregated environment, and at the same time suffer from gender inequality in the family and community. The geographical focuses of the project are the two self-governing regions Prešov and Košice, specifically the municipalities of Čičava, Vtáčkovce and Lunik IX. Through specific activities such as film screenings, workshops and lectures, the project will help this vulnerable group to start making a positive change in their lives, such as a more equal position in the family. The goal will be achieved through the production of a documentary-educational film that will inspire Roma youth from segregated backgrounds to change negative patriarchal stereotypes and to eliminate various forms of violence and multiple discrimination against Roma women in the family and community. The project aims to show them real ways to do this and how to improve the quality of life not only for women but for the whole family and community.
Project timeline: 01-07-2020 – 31-12-2021
Project Partner 1: ResArtis, o.z.
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16,050 €
Grant amount: 14,445 €
Bol raz jeden človek
This and that II. phase
Main aim and activites:
The This and That project represents an innovative model of work integration of people with mental disabilities – “draftsmen” in order to turn their artistic hobby (drawing, graphics) into work and offer an alternative to a sheltered workshop. It is based on the cooperation of draftsmen and professional creatives (Collaborative Art) and education (workshops). The project is a successful continuation of the project from the 1st call of the ACF program, while in the 2nd stage it is expected to expand the product portfolio, develop work habits and increase the market share. The project will also include an educational exhibition for the public on the problematics and artistic production of people with mental disabilities. The project economically strengthens the selected target group and at the same time helps to eliminate the prejudices of the majority towards the given vulnerable group.
Project timeline: 01-06-2020 – 31-05-2021
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16,660 €
Grant amount: 14,994 €
OZ Pre človeka
Education as a way out of poverty
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to support and strengthen the position of vulnerable groups – Roma and low-income families in the Spiš region in the form of support for children’s education and awareness-raising activities in the field of educational support. The Spiš region, where the project will be implemented, is typical for a high proportion of vulnerable groups – especially the Roma. Most of them live in segregated areas, have a low level of education and are not interested in education. Their school attendance shows a high absence. The aim of the project is to implement activities leading to the improvement of the educational level of the target group – children and the support of their inclusion. Through leisure activities, it wants to gain their trust and motivation for educational activities.
Project timeline: 01-07-2020 – 31-12-2021
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16,666.67 €
Grant amount: 15,000 €
Spokojnosť – centrum sociálnych služieb, n. o.
Soil therapy
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to create a new opportunity for residents living in segregated housing settlements in Prievidza (Roma and socially disadvantaged families) to create a living-friendly environment on their own, which will benefit them. For example, the construction of common growing fields and elevated flower beds for growing vegetables and small fruits, teaching the natural way of growing. The aim is to actively involve residents in public events, motivate them to cooperate in public affairs, increase their awareness of environmental protection and simultaneously use soil work as a therapeutic tool that minimizes negative human emotions.
Project timeline: 01-11-2020 – 30-10-2021
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 9,520 €
Grant amount: 8,568 €
Bratislavské dobrovoľnícke centrum
Development of volunteering
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to strengthen the position of vulnerable groups, children and young people from socially disadvantaged backgrounds through the volunteer program “I am here for you” (individual tutoring of children, which takes place during the school year in the form of one on one). The project involves children and young people, who come from a family environment full of stressful situations and violence, and offers them a teacher, a friend and a mentor = a volunteer. A relationship is created between the child and the volunteer, which is very beneficial for the child – he or she experiences a sense of acceptance, acquires a positive role model through the volunteer, which helps the child’s social inclusion.
Project timeline: 01-06-2020 – 31-07-2021
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16,600 €
Grant amount: 14,940 €
Oheň nádeje
Way out of the ghetto
Main aim and activites:
The project is aimed at helping Roma children and young people, who are not guided by their parents to the importance of education, meaningful use of free time and sports. Through peer groups, it helps them with education, provides space for personal development, the development of manual skills, social contacts, self-motivation, breaking down prejudices and taking responsibility for their behavior and discovering their benefits for others. The project focuses on helping in a Roma community in Luník IX in Košice, suffering from high crime and high, multi-generational, unemployment.
Project timeline: 01-06-2020 – 30-11-2021
Project Partner 1: Saleziáni dona Bosca v Košiciach
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 14,992.22 €
Grant amount: 13,493 €
Keď môžem pomôžem
When I can I do sports II.
Main aim and activites:
The project smoothly follows the successful ongoing project When I Can, I Do Sports, supported in the 1st call of the ACF program. It is based on the regular organization of sporting events involving various vulnerable groups, but due to the experience of the first project, these events will be divided into several levels and will be more specialized in selected communities. The educational part will also continue and the involvement of the created community in the organization of events will increase. The project also plans to launch a social enterprise focused on organizing sports events. The target group of the project are Roma people and people at risk of poverty, immigrants, children from children’s homes and the disabled. The project plans to involve 75 participants from the vulnerable groups.
Project timeline: 01-11-2020 – 31-10-2021
Project Partner 1: DORKA n.o.
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 14,980 €
Grant amount: 13,482 €
OZ Zábavné momenty
“This may be our way too”
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to improve access to information and increase the educational level of the Roma community in the field of physical activities and a healthy lifestyle of young people aged 8 to 35 in the village Vojčice. The project will contribute to a better integration of the vulnerable group into society, to an overall better orientation in professional life and to the reduction of the threat of their social exclusion and the elimination of minority tensions. The project will contribute to the motivation of these people to acquire new knowledge. Project activities include the creation and equipment of a sports facility, the organization of seminars and regular trainings, and the organization of competitions within the community. The strength of the project is that, in addition to supporting the vulnerable group, it helps bring the majority closer to the minority and works directly with the municipality as a partner.
Project timeline: 01-07-2020 – 30-06-2021
Project Partner 1: Obec Trhovište
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 13,904 €
Grant amount: 12,513 €
LÁSKAVÉ RUKY
Energy of the young and experience of the old
Main aim and activites:
The project wants to use innovative ways to encourage seniors and volunteers from high schools and universities to solve the problems of leaving seniors with mobility impairments at the edge of the society, by employing 2 disadvantaged job seekers as a volunteer coordinator, leisure animator and work skills development worker. Here, the “energy of young people and the experiences of old” will be linked, and common activities will allow seniors to decide for themselves on their present and future. The target group of the project is therefore people and seniors with special needs and mobility disorders up to and over 65 years of age, disadvantaged job seekers, young volunteers – students from high schools and universities and the public. The project usefully connects several sectors (city, self-government as well as the general public), organizes an ‘Open door day’ in the House of St. Cosmas and Damian and will organize a sports day. It will also allow seniors to attend city council meetings. The project is being implemented in the Prešov region and will involve 25 seniors with special needs and mobility disorders from the House of St. Cosmas and Damian and 2 disadvantaged job seekers.
Project timeline: 01-06-2020 – 30-06-2021
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16,600 €
Grant amount: 14,994 €
Centrum dobrovoľníctva, n.o.
Volunteering for All
Main aim and activites:
The “Volunteering for All” project focuses on supporting existing long – term volunteer programs in the Banská Bystrica district. In addition to direct assistance to vulnerable groups (in the form of tutoring, assistance, intergenerational understanding, …) thanks to the voluntary work of young people and seniors, it also brings changes in their attitudes and stereotypes towards marginalized groups. The project wants to help stabilize the ongoing implementation in organizations that have decided to implement such programs. Organizations that will be provided with support for the maintenance of long-term programs are located in districts that are since 2015 included among the least developed districts of the Slovak Republic, specifically in the districts of Rimavská Sobota, Lučenec and Revúca. This project is a continuation of a successful project implemented through the 1st call of the ACF program. The Volunteer Center plans to involve 250 children, young people and volunteers in its activities.
Project timeline: 01-09-2020 – 31-08-2021
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16,638.89 €
Grant amount: 14,975 €
Lumar n.f.
Sharing is caring
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project “Sharing is Caring” is to provide people with disabilities with targeted professional advice to increase their quality of life. The aim is to bring professionals to people with disabilities and to increase awareness and readiness for living with a physical disability through educational activities. The goal is to organize 2-day trainings with experts in 4 cities (Pezinok, Kováčová, Liptovský Mikuláš and Humenné) for 400 wheelchair users and 400 assistants. Another activity of the project is to create a manual with specific advice and recommendations from experts. The created manual will also contain records of lectures of individual lecturers and technical information on the correct use of various technical aids for the disabled (wheelchairs, elevators, barrels, etc.).
Project timeline: 01-09-2020 – 31-08-2021
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 13,871.11 €
Grant amount: 12,484 €
Šedý medveď
Thanks a lot for the help
Main aim and activites:
The project focuses on social inclusion and intergenerational cooperation in the field of new media and information and communication technologies and uniquely connects two target groups – seniors and youth. In the form of interactive workshops, it brings solutions and motivation for seniors how to get out of social isolation and at the same time reflects on their need for belonging and self-realization. Thanks to the workshops, seniors will learn basic skills in the field of new media and information and communication technologies in a playful way, while gaining the desire, will, courage and motivation to share their lifelong passions or experiences with the world – with the help of “mentors” (youth), who will accompany them on this new journey.
Project timeline: 01-07-2020 – 28-02-2021
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 20,000 €
Grant amount: 15,000 €
OZ Partnerstvo pre sociálne inovácie
We want a chance too
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to create a motivational environment for children and youth from vulnerable groups in the Luník IX housing estate in Košice, using innovative methods and non-formal education in order to improve their knowledge and skills. The aim is also to involve children and youth from this group in cooperation with the majority, namely development and educational activities of an inclusive nature, which will help to break down barriers and integration within the society in Košice.
Project timeline: 01-07-2020 – 31-07-2021
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 14,090 €
Grant amount: 12,681 €
“Hviezdička” tanečné štúdio, Košice
Dance without barriers
Main aim and activites:
The project “Dance without Barriers” is focused on dance and movement training of children with disabilities throughout the school year. The aim of the dance training is to motivate them to music and movement, create choreography and presentation to the public. The intention is also to overcome the barriers that prevent handicapped children from overcoming new challenges, as well as to eliminate the prejudices of the majority towards people with disabilities. The project will also help bring handicapped and healthy children closer together, and thus the inclusion of this vulnerable group in the society. The project is a continuation of a successful project implemented through the 1st call of the ACF program, it is implemented in Košice and involves 10 children and young people from the vulnerable group.
Project timeline: 01-09-2020 – 31-08-2021
Project Partner 1: The joint school in Kosice
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16,635 €
Grant amount: 14,971 €
500
ETNIKANA – MUSIC IS A LANGUAGE THAT WE ALL UNDERSTAND
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to connect community contemporary art, culture, attitudes and opinions of the Roma national minority and its diversity in an attractive and innovative form of moderated discussion of the quiz format and musical, educational meetings together with members of the band Lomnické čháve. The project is implemented directly in selected 15 schools in the Košice and Prešov regions. Based on the story of members from the band Lomnické čháve, who have experienced generational poverty themselves, the project wants to show that life can change slowly and that even a person from a settlement without water, without sewerage, can also graduate from university. The aim is to combat prejudice, address generational poverty, extremism and radicalism in society for the benefit of those, who are considered different because of the color of their skin.
Project timeline: 01-06-2020 – 30-11-2021
Project Partner 1: The Association for Culture, Education and Communication
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16,666.67 €
Grant amount: 15,000 €
Národné tréningové centrum práce SK, n.o.
Two hands of moms
Main aim and activites:
The project is intended for mothers on maternity leave, whose income often consists only of parental allowance. The aim is to create an opportunity to use their own abilities and come up with something innovative, creative with the potential of entrepreneurship and with regard to their primary role as a mother. The central activities are practical workshops that will introduce them to the reality of the business sector and introduce them to handmade creation, business and sales in practice. A series of interviews with successful active mothers in regional weekly magazines with an impact on the whole of eastern Slovakia will also be prepared. The project is being implemented in the Prešov region and plans to involve 50 mothers on maternity leave or parental allowance.
Project timeline: 01-06-2020 – 28-02-2021
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 14,300 €
Grant amount: 12,870 €
Vaša charita n.o.
Supporting the position of vulnerable groups in Novohrad
Main aim and activites:
Many families and individuals are unable to manage their finances economically, and this is passed on to future generations. By providing only the material assistance, these groups have no motivation to change their habits and become dependent on the help of others. The main part of the project is therefore the implementation of educational activities – food preparation courses, financial literacy courses and activities to develop work skills and work habits. The project is being implemented in the Novohrad region – south of central Slovakia, which is a region with high unemployment and a large proportion of the population with low education and marginalized Roma communities. The project envisages a direct impact on 100 participants of the vulnerable group.
Project timeline: 01-07-2020 – 31-12-2021
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16,666.67 €
Grant amount: 15,000 €
Občianske združenie Superar Slovakia
Superar protects children
Main aim and activites:
Superar is a unique international initiative focused on music education for children (and adults). The aim of the project is to implement the principles of ensuring strict observance of children’s rights and their protection against violence in the organization Superar Slovakia and thus increase the standard of protection of children involved in the activities of the organization. During the project, a series of activities will take place to strengthen and develop the organization’s internal mechanisms and competencies in the area of sensitive approach to the needs and rights of children and prevention of their violation.
Project timeline: 01-07-2020 – 30-06-2021
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 15,600 €
Grant amount: 14,040 €
Centrum vzdelávania a odbornej pomoci o.z.
Green for a better life
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to provide counseling in job search and preparation for a job interview of the Roma community in the town of Veľký Krtíš through job counselors and mentors. The specific goal is to remove barriers for the entry of applicants into the labor market, as well as to raise motivation in the given community to obtain a stable, legal and long-term job. Through the implementation of the project, the association wants to contribute to the application of applicants in their future employment, to the maintenance of the job and to better management of earnings. The strength of the project is the cooperation with Labor and Social Affairs Office and employers in the region.
Project timeline: 01-07-2020 – 30-06-2021
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 12,344 €
Grant amount: 11,109 €
OZ STOPA Slovensko
The trauma of homelessness
Main aim and activites:
The project is created in response to suggestions directly from people, who have ended homelessness. Based on individual sessions, it is found that ending physical homelessness does not end the trauma they have experienced. The aim of the project is to create the first support group “anonymous former homeless people”. In addition to the benefits for the group itself, thanks to the audiovisual recording, the participation of experts and guests/experts, the benefit of the project will also be for the work with this target group as such. The project can change the overall view of working with the homeless people, especially at a time, when many goals are aimed at the physical end of homelessness, as the only aim in working with the homeless people. The project has a message for experts, but also for the public. The project is being implemented in Bratislava and it will include 5 sessions for former homeless people, as well as training and education and meetings of experts.
Project timeline: 01-09-2020 – 31-12-2021
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 6,988.89 €
Grant amount: 6,290 €
Slovenský Červený kríž územný spolok Košice – mesto
WE CAN DEFEND OURSELVES!
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to improve the position of a vulnerable group – children and young adults with severe disabilities through the following activities: 1. By undergoing Therasuit therapy by professionally trained physiotherapists in Therasuit therapy; 2. Strengthening the social position by creating a supportive community for the target group – recipients of social services, family members and workers in social services in the form of five discussions and 3. Help the inclusion of the disabled by volunteering. The project will help the disabled – both physically and mentally – and will involve 17 disabled people in its activities. The project is being implemented in Košice.
Project timeline: 01-12-2020 – 30-09-2021
Project Partner 1: DOMKO – social services home
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16,669.66 €
Grant amount: 14,836 €
Liberta, n.o.
Give sense to the senses
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to expand and improve the services that the organization provides to children and youth with disabilities, especially the extension of the therapy of “sensory integration”. The goal of sensory integration therapy is to improve the process of perception of the environment and the relationship of one’s own body with it. Its intention is not to practice specific skills, but to build “adaptive responses” – the child gradually adapts his or hers behavior and responds appropriately to individual situations and activities. It is focused on the child – therapy takes place through a game and game activities.
Project timeline: 01-06-2020 – 31-05-2021
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 15,000 €
Grant amount: 13,500 €
Medium Grants:
Spoločnosť Úsmev ako dar
Way to Life
Main aim and activities:
The project is aimed at young adults from centres for children and families, which will help them with better and easier integration into society. Activities include educating young adults using modern technology, providing support services in the form of professional counselling and volunteering. Education will cover a range of topics – financial literacy, increasing competencies to offices, career counselling, housing, partnerships and parenthood, self-esteem, motivation, communication, coping with the past and increasing mental resilience.
Project timeline: 01-08-2020 – 31-07-2021
Project Partner1: Fundatum (NO)
Project Partner2: Právnická fakulta Univerzity Mateja Bela
Project eligible expenditure: 88,419.54 €
Grant amount: 76,925 €
Všetci pre rodinu, n. o.
We guide, we support, you have housing
Main aim and activities:
The project focuses on providing professional accompany and support to families with children in housing need involved in the Housing First project for families in Košice. It will be a pilot application of this approach in Slovakia. The project aims to test the independent living support service in a specific context of application the Housing First approach, and based on gained experience and evidence of its functioning to enable its further dissemination and use by civic organizations and cities to end homelessness in Slovakia.
Project timeline: 01-08-2020 – 31-07-2021
Project Partner1: Nadácia DEDO
Project Partner2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 72,123.33 €
Grant amount: 64,911 €
Združenie STORM
3P – práca, pomoc, podpora (Work, Help, Support)
Main aim and activities:
The project is focusing on the social inclusion of drug users and people working in the sex business through practical work training in the ZÓNA contact centre in Sereď. Clients working in the exteriors or interiors of the centre increase their practical work skills. The motivation for them is the fulfilment of an individual goal (e.g. obtaining allowance for the identity card, reducing debts in a health insurance company, paying a doctor, housing, etc.).
Project timeline: 01-01-2021 – 30-06-2022
Project Partner1:N/A
Project Partner2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 64,906.67 €
Grant amount: 58,416 €
Dobrovoľnícke centrum Košického kraja
From BBS (Big Brother/Sister) to CREDO
Main aim and activities:
The project aims at Roma children and young adults. The Volunteer Center has been working with Roma communities for 15 years and is cooperating with other organizations that also work with the Roma community. In this project, they are developing two concepts – BBS (Big Brother/Sister) and CREDO. BBS is preparation for Roma children from kindergartens, with volunteers from the ranks of high school and university youth. CREDO focuses on revitalizing and improving the conditions of Roma settlements in the Košice region. Both, Roma and non-Roma citizens are involved in the program. CREDO won the Volunteer Project of the Year award at both – regional and national level.
Project timeline: 01-06-2020 – 30-11-2021
Project Partner1:N/A
Project Partner2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 58,997.78 €
Grant amount: 53,098 €
Kežmarská platforma pre sociálne začlenenie, n.o.
Promoting the integration of the unemployed from marginalized groups into the labor market
Main aim and activities:
In the Kežmarok district, long-term registered unemployment is at the level of 15%. It is estimated that about 70% -80% of these registered available job seekers are people from marginalized Roma communities (approximately 5,000 people). Most of this workforce is low-skilled people (with completed primary or special primary school) who live in segregated communities in the municipalities of Kežmarok district. The main aim of the project is to support the employment and employability of people from marginalized Roma communities in the Spiš region through education and job mentoring needed for adaptation in the workplace. Education should focus on social and communication skills that will help people from marginalized Roma communities to develop healthy assertiveness, perseverance and responsibility in their future workplace and in everyday life. An innovative element of the project is that it wants to focus only on those who show real interest in this education.
Project timeline: 01-11-2020 – 28-02-2022
Project Partner1:N/A
Project Partner2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 66,375.56 €
Grant amount: 59,738.00 €
Categories
1. Call Supported projects
Projects supported in the program in 1. Call.
Small Grants:
Centrum dobrovoľníctva
Hand in hand, step by step
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to strengthen a vulnerable group of Roma and non-Roma children and youth, children with disabilities or those who, after traumatic experiences, cannot integrate into the society and need external help in the form of mentoring meetings. The project actively involves also senior volunteers in the implementation of some activities. By these voluntary activities project eliminates threats of social exclusion and isolation, helps develop intergenerational cooperation and understanding.
Project timeline: 01-05-2019 – 30-06-2020
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16,600.80 €
Grant amount: 14,940 €
Dúhový PRIDE Bratislava
Increase the acceptance of LGBTI people through positive examples and policies at local level
Main aim and activites:
The main goal of the project is to contribute and increase self-acceptance and sense of security of LGBTI people through the presentation of positive role models. The presentation will take place as part of the pre-PRIDE campaign by publishing positive stories and articles on social media. During the PRIDE festival these stories will be distributed as part of the QYS magazines. Another activity of the project is to provide support to LGBTI people in the process of coming out and in the form of advice and support group.
Project timeline: 01-05-2019 – 29-02-2020
Project Partner 1: Iniciatíva Inakosť
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16,580.69 €
Grant amount: 14,922 €
Detstvo deťom
Parental Center – Early child care at home envinronment
Main aim and activites:
Aim of the project is to work with families of Roma community in Dobšiná who struggle with poverty and existential problems and lack basic life skills. Many of parents are under the age of 15 which is one of the basic problems which needs to be addressed here. Parental centre will therefore continue with the activities leading to improvement of the current situation and provide informal education to adolescent girls on planned parenthood and responsible sexuality through regular meetings. Accordingly, working with whole families as well, teaching parents how to properly socialize and prepare their children for elementary school.
Project timeline: 01-07-2019 – 30-06-2020
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 24,799 €
Grant amount: 14,879 €
Občianske združenie Odyseus
Social assistance – a step towards improving the position of vulnerable groups
Main aim and activites:
The project goal is to improve the position of vulnerable communities in Bratislava who do not have or have only limited access to the social and health assistance. These vulnerable groups are mostly people living on the streets, people using drugs or people involved in sex business. Project will help to make a positive change in their lives by its main activities. These include accompanying people to various institutions by car, street social work, distribution of syringes and distribution of other medical material needed to reduce the risks related to drug use and / or street sex work, blood testing and sexually transmitted infections testing, etc.
Project timeline: 01-05-2019 – 31-10-2020
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 15,000 €
Grant amount: 13,500 €
Bol raz jeden človek
This and that
Main aim and activites:
Main goal of the project is to support mentally handicapped people to be more autonomous. It is based on Collaborative Art – teamwork of talented people with intellectual disabilities and professional creators to create mutual design products. Main activities include regular meetings every week to create and develop new products and series of 6 whole day art workshops to increase their expertise. The aim of the project is to transform the artistic expression of the target group into the marketable merchandise and to offer an alternative to the protected manufactory. The project will also include an educational exhibition for the public to increase overall awareness of the issue, inform people about the project and market and show the design products.
Project timeline: 01-06-2019 – 31-05-2020
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16,624 €
Grant amount: 14,961 €
Podnik medzitrhu práce – Šanca pre všetkých
Opportunity to get a job
Main aim and activites:
The main objective of the project is to contribute to the increase of the employability and employment of the Roma people living in Banská Bystrica. People with completed primary education are the most vulnerable segment of the target group who have few employment opportunities. In the vast majority of cases, these are people without social background who have difficulty in ensuring basic living conditions. Main activities of the project are establishment of a Practice Training Center as a permanent contact point for the target group, individual and group career counselling, training for entering the labour market and training of communication skills.
Project timeline: 01-03-2019 – 29-02-2020
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 14,302.24 €
Grant amount: 12,872 €
Miestne združenie YMCA Revúca
One for all, all for the community
Main aim and activites:
The project focuses on a marginalized community of about 1,500 people in Jelsava, predominantly of Roma nationality, who shows characteristics of passivity with respect to social matters. The aim of the project is to provide intensive program to carefully selected 20 members of this community. During the program they will learn to recognize specific needs of their community, understand that they are not dependent on passivity, experience empowerment in democratic processes, and ultimately learn to lead others by modern means of communication. Main activities of the project include mentoring of the participants, discussions, teambuildings and organization of the conference.
Project timeline: 01-05-2019 – 31-05-2020
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16,623 €
Grant amount: 14,960 €
Centrum osvety a poradenstva – doškoľovacie centrum pre ďalšie vzdelávanie.
Stand up
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to increase the possibility of young NEETs (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) and disadvantaged jobseekers to find employment. It responds to identified problems of long-term unemployment of Roma, high number of people with low education, low level of work habits of the younger and middle generation in the Roma population and low self-confidence of young unemployed people. Another problem is also mutual distrust of employers and young unemployed Roma and job offers that does not meet the needs and opportunities of young NEETs.
Project timeline: 01-05-2019 – 31-12-2019
Project Partner 1: Wasco cooperative
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16,300 €
Grant amount: 14,670 €
Keď môžem pomôžem
When I can I do sport
Main aim and activites:
The basis of the project is the organization of various sporting events where people from several selected vulnerable groups and the public work and sport together and associate. Sport events include football, hockey, tennis, volleyball, tourism and cycling. Participating vulnerable groups are Roma, immigrants and children from orphanages. In the further phase of the project, people from vulnerable groups will be educated in various areas, such as team work, economic education, self-development and communication skills, active citizenship and critical thinking, organizational skills, etc… Participants will use these acquired skills to organize their own larger sporting event for the public.
Project timeline: 01-06-2019 – 01-07-2020
Project Partner 1: Mareena
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 14,961 €
Grant amount: 13,464 €
“Hviezdička” tanečné štúdio
Dancing without barriers
Main aim and activites:
The project brings unique opportunity for children with disabilities to participate on dancing and physical training throughout the school year, 2 times a week. Special school Spojena skola, Opatovska cesta 101, Kosice is partner of the project and 10 children from this school will be attending dance classes, 9 of them being on wheelchairs. The intention is to overcome barriers that prevent handicapped children from overcoming new challenges, motivation to music and movement. Children will strengthen their overall physical fitness, better their coordination and their overall self-confidence. Another goal of the project is to remove the prejudice of the majority towards people with disabilities by creation of choreography and presenting their dance to the public.
Project timeline: 01-06-2019 – 31-07-2020
Project Partner 1: Special school – Spojena skola, Opatovska cesta 101, Kosice
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16,596 €
Grant amount: 14,936 €
VOLTILAND Košice, o.z.
On horseback – playfully and healthy
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to organize the motion activities for children, clients of the Archdiocesan Charity Košice – Crisis Center, as part of their leisure activities in the centre. Children from families who are clients of the crisis center are in a difficult life situation. They are mostly people with a weak economic background and therefore with limited opportunities to provide children with diverse leisure activities that would benefit their development. Vaulting is a riding sport and offers children opportunity to improve social skills when working in a group and building responsibility towards living beings, as training also includes taking care of the horse before and after training. It will also improve their concentration and self-confidence.
Project timeline: 01-05-2019 – 31-10-2019
Project Partner 1: Archdiocesan Charity Košice – Crisis Center
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 10 874,19 €
Grant amount: 9,786 €
KPTL občiankse združenie
Engaged Capital
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to strengthen the involvement of Capital magazine through social reports, participatory journalism and so-called “Solution Journalism”. During the project 15 articles on the vulnerable groups themes will be prepared. It will include reports from the environments of vulnerable groups (including Roma or working poverty), participatory analyzes (providing direct voice to these groups) and reports using the “Solution Journalism” approach, approach that focuses on the solutions instead of just pointing out the problems.
Project timeline: 01-05-2019 – 30-04-2020
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 16,650 €
Grant amount: 14,985 €
Medium Grants:
Cesta von
Project Omama – early care for children from excluded Roma communities
Main aim and activites:
“If you are born into extreme poverty, very likely you will be wrong to thrive in school and then you have little chance to successfully being applied in working life”, is the main point of the project promoters. In Slovakia, this problem is one of the crucial problems in connection with the excluded Roma communities. Touches tens of thousands of people, primarily children, who do not receive adequate care, education and literacy in pre-school age. Many times it also happens that children from poor environments do not get into kindergarten, thereby again losing many of the skills.
Project timeline: 01-07-2019 – 31-12-2020
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 72,170 €
Grant amount: 64 953 €
Občianske združenie kRaj
Honeycomb: Social Workshop
Main aim and activites:
The project aims to create a social enterprise that processes beeswax into products for beekeepers: wax dividers, finished frames, pure wax and for the general public: design wax candles and other wax products for all supporters of current trends in the use of natural materials, zero-waste and social projects. The project follows the needs of the target group, which are, besides the possibility of employment, improving the position on the labour market by retraining, increasing the group’s credit in the eyes of the majority group and changing the established views on the beekeeping community. By doing so, beekeeping brings not only an environmental footprint but also opportunities for economic and social development in the region.
Project timeline: 01-05-2019 – 31-10-2020
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 71 398,30 €
Grant amount: 64 258 €
Nitrianska komunitná nadácia
Creation of community center for labor and knowledge mobility in Nitra
Main aim and activites:
The main objective of the project is to create services for the social inclusion of third-country nations and citizens of EU Member States granted temporary or permanent residence in the Slovak Republic in Nitra. It will help overcome barriers between citizens and migrants and reduce xenophobia. Another objective is to create a local strategy for the city based on the cooperation of key players – the city of Nitra, employers, NGOs, representatives of the Foreign Police, Labour Office and representatives of migrants. The strategy will define the comprehensive solutions needed to achieve social inclusion, overcome barriers to coexistence and suppress xenophobia in the community.
Project timeline: 01-07-2019 – 31-12-2020
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 68 774 €
Grant amount: 61 896 €
ETP Slovensko – Centrum pre udržateľný rozvoj
Nine lives! Youth in Action
Main aim and activites:
The project is in line with the previous project, Concept of a comprehensive settlement of the situation in Luník IX – education, leisure activities, and work with public opinion. The project works with young people who are interested in engaging in second-chance education. Currently, however, there is also the planning of self-help construction of family homes, which is involving adults clients, too. In the framework of the project the youth will creating a local newspaper – quarterly with the working title “Nine lives!”.
Project timeline: 01-07-2019 – 31-03-2021
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 72 161,59 €
Grant amount: 64 945 €
DORKA, n.o.
Dorka Bags
Main aim and activites:
Dorka Bags is a project for the ecological use of PVC materials from the waste of advertising industry by making bags through the involvement of vulnerable groups living in crisis centres (single mothers, young people without work experience, many from the Roma minority). The project aims to professionalize the ongoing production of ecological bags, to find a suitable form of its transformation into social entrepreneurship, to create job opportunities for clients, increase their working skills and to draw attention to their problems.
Project timeline: 01-06-2019 – 31-05-2020
Project Partner 1: CREATIVE PRO (KE) s.r.o., Slovensko
Project Partner 2: Nadácia DeDo – Solidarita s deťmi z detských domovov, Slovensko
Project eligible expenditure: 62 332,52 €
Grant amount: 56 099 €
PRO VIDA, o.z.
BUDDY
Main aim and activites:
The BUDDY project has been created to help young people who leave their children´s homes and need help to integrate into life. BUDDY is a community-based volunteer program based on the training of a volunteer (tool of change), who then takes care of the child. BUDDY is something between a mentor and an older friend. A team of psychologists and social welfare professionals carefully selects, trains and associates one volunteer with one child (12 years old or older) from a child’s home.
Project timeline: 01-07-2019 – 30-06-2020
Project Partner 1: N/A
Project Partner 2: N/A
Project eligible expenditure: 107 378 €
Grant amount: 59 916 €
eduRoma – Roma education project
Project PPV / Strengthening professional capacities in pre-primary education in the context of inclusion of Roma children
Main aim and activites:
The aim of the project is to map the situation in the preparedness of self-governing actors to integrate children from the SDE into pre-school education and to assist them in improving their preparedness. The project has 3 parts: (1) research (mapping the situation and making recommendations), (2) Intervention (assisting municipalities and representatives of pre-primary facilities in improving their preparedness), (3) advocacy: presentation of recommendations to public policymakers. The project will focus on training of (non)pedagogical staff, training of municipalities, field social workers, etc. or reducing less visible barriers to access to quality pre-school education for socially excluded families.
Project timeline: 01-05-2019 – 30-11-2020
Project Partner 1: Inštitút pre dobre spravovanú spoločnosť, Slovensko
Project Partner 2:Úrad splnomocnenca vlády SR pre rómske komunity, Slovensko
Project eligible expenditure: 64 370 €
Grant amount: 57 933 €