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Slovakia
Sites
of the project
National Level External Evaluation (2005)
Implementing
partners
- Wide
Open School Foundation
E-mail: nsd@nsd.sk
Contact person: Eva Koncoková, Executive
director
- Open
Society Foundation - Slovakia
E-mail: osf@osf.sk
Contact person: Alena Pániková,
Executive director
Contact person: Barbora Kahátová,
barbora@osf.sk
- Projekt
Schola
E-mail:
rigova@netkosice.sk
Contact person: Silvia Rigová, Executive
director
- Dženo-Spiš,
Civil Association
E-mail: dzeno-spis@stonline.sk
Contact person: Júlia Vesela
- Jilo-Srdce,
Civic Association (Roma NGO)
E-mail: szs.jarovnice@stonline.sk
Contact person: Eva Lukácova
- Cesta
Nádeje, Civic Association (Roma NGO)
Dr. Janského 9, Žiar nad Hronom 965
01
Slovakia
Phone: +421-903-554228
E-mail: ozcn@stonline.sk
Contact person: Miroslav Sklenka
- ASAL-Civic
Association (Roma NGO)
Phone: +421-908-306052
Contact person: Marán Gina
- Sakoneske
Mištes, Civic Association (Roma NGO)
Jaronice 294, Jarovnice 082 63
Slovakia
Contact person: Florián Gina
-
Roma
NGO Zore
Huta 79, Rudnany 053 23
Slovakia
Contact
person: Dana Pustulkova
Roma Leaders
Vlasta
Adamova
Ladislav Bily
Marian Gina
Milan Husar
Eva Lukacova
Lichvarova
Maria Horvath
Igor Pavlikova
Maria Vesela
Julia Sarissky
Jan Sarisska
Maria Vozarova
Jana Sabova
Erika Kotrady
Milan Bafiova Slavomira
Project
information
Slovakia
was funded in May 2003 and began implementation
in September 2003. In the 2004-2005 year, the project
operated as follows:
Number
of Sites - 4 (Košice, Jarovnice, Smižany,
and Rudnany)
Number of schools/preschools - 19
Number of children - 1,441
Number of Roma children - 661
The
major implementing partners are the Wide Open School
Foundation and the Open Society Foundation - Bratislava
(Slovakia). Other major implementing partners have
included Project Schola (Košice), Cultural
Union of Romani Citizens (Rudnany), Dženo -
Spiš (Smižany), and Civic Association
ASAL (Jarovnice).
The
REI model includes children from 0 to 18 years and
older, but focuses particularly on connecting schools,
families, communities, support programs, the NGO
sector, as well as other institutions such as the
Ministry of Education (Figure A:6). Creating home
learning environments is a key feature of the Slovak
model, consistent with their focus on life long
learning based in community. In Slovakia, in cooperation
with the OSI Network Health Program, REI has linked
high quality health provision and prevention services,
which assist in assuring access to school for Roma
children.
When
asked about the most significant elements of their
project, the Slovakian team described a community-based
approach that connects education and all people
involved in both the Roma and non-Roma communities.
They described the importance of:
…
breaking barriers and creating an atmosphere of
desegregation … [and] the active participation
of Roma parents to manage their own environments
… theybecome partners and educators of their
own children.
Project
Summary
The
project's overall goal is to increase the integration
(desegregation) of Roma Children through education.
The sub-goals include:
- Maximizing beneficial interracial contact
- Minimize achievement gaps
- Elimination of professional and personal prejudice
- Peer acceptance towards Roma children
The objectives of the project are to:
- eliminate the segregation of Roma students
in the schools through creating and implementing
a comprehensive approach
- improve the Roma students' learning
capacity
- initiate on local and governmental level changes
in educational policy regarding Roma children.
The
locations where the project is being implemented
are Rudnany, Smižany Jarovnice and Košice.
The project is divided into four components which
have specific objectives:
Component
1: Pre-school Education
- Preventing segregation of Roma children in schools
by implementing a comprehensive formal and informal
pre-school education program, and avoiding misplacement
of Roma children to special schools
Component
2: Education in Primary and Secondary School
- Improving the educational outcomes of Roma students
and developing the appropriate structure to force
desegregation of Roma students on local level
Component
3: Vocational Education
- Developing a model of tutoring and mentoring for
Roma youth dropouts who did not complete education
that leads to marketable skills
Component
4: Policy influence and change
- Creating Working Committees on Desegregation to
develop policy recommendations that support successful
integration (desegregation) of Roma children and
youth into the mainstream school system on local
and national level
Photo
section of the project
REI
Project Model - Slovakia (Powerpoint presentation)
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