The Centre is currently implementing following projects:
Bilateral Initiative: Research and Needs Analysis of Slovak Teachers in Gender Equality and Gender-Based Violence Prevention.
This project is supported by the EEA and Norway Grants, a funding mechanism that strengthens cooperation between Slovakia and Norway in the field of gender equality and human rights.
This bilateral activity is part of an open call from the Fund for Bilateral Relations which has been set up to directly support bilateral cooperation as part of the framework of the EEA and Norway Grants 2014-2021.
This initiative is aimed at conducting comprehensive research among Slovak high-school teachers to assess their perspectives, challenges, and needs in the areas of gender equality and gender-based violence (GBV) prevention. The research will encompass both quantitative methods, including an online survey, and qualitative approaches.
The project builds upon previous efforts to promote gender equality and prevent gender-based violence through education. The results of this research will be synthesized into a comprehensive needs analysis, which will serve as the foundation for developing targeted interventions. These interventions will be specifically tailored to meet the needs of Slovak teachers and support their capacity to address gender equality and GBV prevention in their classrooms.
The results from this project will directly inform the creation of innovative educational tools and interventions that can be used to support Slovak high-school teachers in their daily efforts to foster gender equality and prevent violence. Ultimately, this initiative aims to empower educators with the knowledge and resources they need to create more inclusive and safe learning environments for their students.
Partneri:
The Human Rights Institute (HRI): https://www.ludskeprava.sk/
KUN Centre for Equality and Diversity: https://www.kun.no/
Reform – Resource Center for Men: https://reform.no/
“Working together for a green, competitive, and inclusive Europe”
www.eeagrants.sk
‘‘Reducing the Excessive usage of pre-triaL dEtention via hArmonisation & Support to altErnatives’’ (RELEASE) project
Project funded by the European Union (JUST-2022-JCO)
Implementation period: 10/2022-09/2024
Partners:
The consortium consists of six partners from five EU Member States countries located in the Eastern and Central Europe including Law and Internet Foundation (LIF) from Bulgaria, Center for Peace, Non-violence and Human Rights (CPO) from Croatia, Center for Security Studies (KEMEA) from Greece, Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) from Poland, Slovak National Centre for Human Rights (SNCHR) from Slovakia and Ministry of Justice Transparency and Human Rights (GMJ) from Greece.
Description of the project
RELEASE project has been inspired from the urge to identify alternatives to pre-trial detention in Eastern Europe and Central Europe. RELEASE focuses on this region due to the fact that the alternatives to pre-trial detention are extremely rarely used in this region and the detention measure is a regularly used instrument. This constitutes an issue that can have negative effects on a number of different aspects: sociological aspect, harmonization of EU law, human rights aspect.
The main priority of the RELEASE project is to contribute to the coherent application of EU laws across the Member States and this way to promote judicial cooperation in criminal matters. The project aims at facilitating the establishment of mutual trust amongst the target groups and improvement of the national justice systems.
The project objectives
RELEASE focuses on pre-trial detention having as an objective to propose and promote alternatives to its excessive use. More precisely, the project aims on assisting predominantly the judiciary (including judges, investigative judges) but also prosecutors, defense lawyers and other legal practitioners in EU Member States, particularly those located in Eastern and Central Europe, to strengthen the cooperation between competent authorities on the issue of pre-trial detention. The activities that will be carried out within the framework of the project aim to facilitate the construction of a common approach, by identifying the best practices and working methods and establishing mutual trust between the partner countries. The planned activities will consist of identification of best practices and working methods, establishment of mutual trust between partnering Member States, organization of mutual learning activities such as national workshops and international seminars and publishing of learning materials. The project results will be promoted across and beyond the partner countries and target groups via targeted awareness-raising and dissemination activities.
Planned outputs of the projects
- Desk-research – data collection on the topic such as statistics and case law in partner countries and the region as well as identification of gaps and needs
- Handbook – including good practices and practical alternatives, with separate parts for the different target groups such as lawyers, judges, prosecutors, consisting of good practices identified by the research and the participants.
- Policy Brief – which will aim to increase the awareness amongst policy makers regarding the issues related to pre-trial detention and possible alternatives for resolving them.
- National workshops and international seminars – organization of national workshops and international seminars for judges, investigative judges, prosecutors, defense lawyers and other legal practitioners or academia.
- RELEASE final conference – which will further support the establishing of effective cooperation between the target groups and will further disseminate the results of the project.
Completed projects are available on its own subpage.