Center for the Research of Ethnicity and Culture

National Network
Slovak Republic
Telephone
+421 2 52 44 41 10
E-Mail
kriglerova@cvek.sk
E-Mail (2)
vasecka@cvek.sk
Mobile Phone
+421 908 715 419
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2005
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
  2. Human rights
  3. Media
  4. Research
  5. Youth and education
General Information
1 Number of stuff: 6 persons 2. Sources of funding: European Union, International Foundations, State budget 3. Projects - research, organisation of conferences, seminars, partnership in organizing of summer schools for students, public policy analysis 5. Main partners: Akademie für arbeit und politik, Universität Bremen Competence Centre of South Eastern Europe, Karl-Franzens-University, Graz European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), Vienna European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg Institute for Minority Rights, EURAC, Bolzano IISCE - The international institute for the study of culture and education, Wroc?aw Institute for the Research on Social Reproduction and Integration, Brno IZA - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit, Bonn Milan Sime?ka Foundation, Bratislava NDI - National Democratic Institute People against Racism, Bratislava
Mission and Objectives

Center for the Research of Ethnicity and Culture (CVEK) is an independent civic association that has been created in 2005 and is focused on research and analytical activities in the sphere of broadly understood culture and ethnicity. CVEK is contributing to expert activities and fostering of a expert dialogue in the sphere of minority issues, social exclusion, strengthening of a social cohesion, social construction of ethnic and cultural identity, race and ethnicity issues, and development of cultural activities and media space in Central European context.
CVEK in its activities fosters publication activities, organizes seminars, conferences, and workshops, works on expert standpoints and public-policy materials, and is devoted to consultancy activities. CVEK is personally and scientifically linking up on good traditions of research and analytical activities of the Program of national minorities of the Institute for Public Affairs Bratislava (1999 - 2005).

Main Projects / Activities

- Seminar NGOs and Civil Society: Promoters of Democracy and Active Citizenship
- Attitudes of primary schools pupils toward authochtonous and new minorities in Slovakia
- International conference Migration - Rethinking Contemporary Migration Events.
-Practice of Minority Protection in Central Europe
- RAXEN 8 (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
- Study on the social and labor market integration of ethnic minorities
- Accelerating CSR Practices in the New EU Member States and Candidate Countries
- Processes of redefinition and reconstruction of the term nation in Central Europe
-MINORITIES AND MIGRANTS IN MEDIA
- CAMPAIGN ALL DIFFERENT - ALL EQUAL: PUBLIC OPINION POLL ON YOUNG PEOPLE
- EQUAL ACCESS TO QUALITY EDUCATION FOR ROMA

Contact (1) Full Name
Elena Gallova Kriglerova
Head of the organisation
PhDr. Michal Vasecka, PhD
Contact (2) Full Name
Michal Vasecka