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4. Social Inclusion

4.5 Initiatives promoting social inclusion and raising awareness

Last update: 11 July 2025

lntercultural awareness and inclusion

www.prijatelni.sk (“acceptable for job”)/ Roma Employment Campaign - Fighting Prejudices 

  • May 2019 – ongoing 

  • The campaign invites to a special (fictitious) page that would make the CV more suitable for work interview. The page would “whiten” your photo page if it is too dark and changes address or name if it evokes a Roma origin and increases the chances of being invited to a job interview. 

  • The aim is to point to the fact that a CV sent by a Roma candidate has 50% less chance of receiving a response. 

Deň krivých zrkadiel /Crooked Mirrors Day  

  • annual exhibition 

  • NGO Združenie na pomoc ľuďom s mentálnym postihnutím http://www.zpmpvsr.sk/ Association to Support People with Developmental Disabilities  

  • the aim is to show the potential of the people with intellectual disabilities; 

  • activities of the campaing taking place in capital and bigger centres of Slovakia (Bratislava, Dolný Kubín, Komárno, Košice, Malacky, Nitra, Trnava) 

  • presentations of products and activities of target groups. 

 

Other on-going programmes and initiatives of non-governmental non-profit organizations 

 

NGO 

Name of the initiative/Programme 

Theme 

Activities 

  

Persons with hearing impairments 

Education/Training, Dialogue. 

(Upstream) 

Nota Bene Newsletter 

Nota Bene Books 

Luggage porters 

Support of homeless people 

Dialogue, Training, Campaign 

(From Emotions to Knowledge) 

(Online living library) 

Inclusion 

Dialogue through storytelling 

(Union of blinds and partially-sighted of Slovakia) 

(White pastel) 

Visual impairment 

Regular campaign 

Pathways to Inclusion / Cesty k inklúzii 

Inclusion in youth work 

Training programme with accreditation 

 

Young people's rights 

 

NGO 

Name of the initiative/programme 

Theme 

Activities 

  

Equity and Equality 

Campaign 

(New schooling) 

  

Inclusive education 

Campaign 

Saplinq (o.z.) 

 

LGBTQ+ youth, especially in Eastern Slovakia 

Operates PRIZMA community center in Košice, organizes PRIDE Košice, offers education and advocacy (e.g., Rainbow Ribbon campaign) 

Initiative Otherness (Iniciatíva Inakosť”) 

 

LGBTQ+ youth nationwide 

Runs a community center in Bratislava, offers free psychological and legal support, organizes PRIDE Bratislava and Film Festival Inakosti 

 

Other programmes and initiatives of non-governmental non-profit organizations 

 

NGO 

Name of the initiative/programme 

Theme 

Tools/Activities 

Cyber bullying 

Campaign 

A call for humanity / Výzva k ľudskosti 

Tell it to my eyes / Povedz mi to do očí 

BUT can not hide the hate / ALE hejt neskryje 

Support for migrants/refugees 

Grant programme, Campaign, Dialogue 

#smespecial / We are Special 

Supporitng incusion trough the sports for the intelectually disabled persons 

Campaing, Declaration of inclusion 

I See The Essential  

Inclusion of children with disabilities  

Campaign 

Mareena  

Looking for Similarities project COPE 

Preventing anti – muslim hatred  

Project, Campaign 

STORM 

Program ECHO  

Harm Reduction, streetwork, increasing awareness 

Project 

Key initiatives to safeguard democracy and prevent radicalisation leading to violent extremism

The Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic has recently developed The Conceptual Framework for Countering Radicalisation and Extremism by 2024. The Ministry also provides subsidies for the prevention of criminality and deals with the support for the violence victims as well as the prevention of trafficking. In 2021 the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic has prepared the National Strategy of Roma Equality, Inclusion and Participation 2030.  

The Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic has established the National Coordination Center for Resolving the Violence on Children (2014) which implements the National Strategy on the Protection of Children against Violence, updated in 2019. It includes digital and sexual abuse prevention and measures. 

The Plenipotentiary of the Civic Society is another subject to ensure the open democracy approach in the Slovak Republic. The office participates in the  Open Goverment Partnership Initiative and is running the National Projects on Participation PART and PARTII including the participative approach in developing the initiatives in the equal access to processes of development of the policies on local, regional and national levels.  

 

Funding

Financing of activities run or covered by NIVAM is through state budget of the Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth of the Slovak Republic. State subsidies in the field of youth work are provided on the basis of the Act on Youth Work Support and under conditions specified by the Subsidies Directive nr. 48/2021 about youth work. Other initiatives are covered by various donor sources.

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