Factsheet for measure
SK-2024-16/3855
– measures in Slovakia
Grant programme At Home in Bratislava
Grantový program V Bratislave doma
Background information
The goal of this measure was to support integration of immigrants in the city, with special focus on Ukrainian refugees, through improving quality and scope of services offered to immigrants and supporting inclusive and awareness-building activities within communities in Bratislava. The grant programme was supported by UNICEF and thus has a specific focus on children and families. Increasing the number and scope of services supporting the integration of immigrants and influencing the citizens to be more welcoming and accepting could potentially attract immigrant labour, as the measure focuses on children, mainly parents seeking employment. Among activities that could be financed via this scheme are also activties promoting language-learning promoting mutual intelligibility.
Content of measure
NGOs and schools (or other teaching institutions) can apply for a grant to finance their activities aimed to support integration of immigrants in the fields of education, social and psychosocial assistance, and support of community and cultural activities. The supported activities are meant to ease access to education and children’s adaptation to a new environment via the work with children’s views towards immigrants, providing psychological support to and improving communication of teaching and non-teaching school staff, and informal language learning activities of both Slovak and the immigrant family’s language. In the area of social and psychosocial assistance the activities include counselling, guidance, complex support to Ukrainian refugees, and provision of healthcare. Community and cultural support are mainly awareness-building and sensitization activities, aimed to increase immigrants’ access to and participation in cities community life. The total grant amount for the programme is €50 000, the maximum for each project is €5 000, and every entity can only present 1 project. Eligible costs are salaries (including hiring external experts), organisational costs (including office or venue rent), any costs related to organisation of the project, and allowance for accommodation, food and travel expenses if needed in relation to organisation of the project.
Use of measure
14 projects have been approved to receive the grant (out of 15 applicants), each being allocated between €3,000-4,000. The total amount of grant money has been spent. The information about the number of people participating in the activities of NGOs and schools is not available.
The only statistic avalable is the overall number of foreigners in Bratislava, which in april 2024 (before the grant scheme) was 35,304, while in december 2024 it was 39,557.
Target groups
Actors and funding
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Actors
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Funding
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Other social actors (e.g. NGOs)
Local / regional government
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Local funds
Other
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Social partners
Social partners' role in
designing the measure
and form of involvement:
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Trade unions
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Employers' organisations
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Role
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No involvement as case not in social partner domain
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No involvement as case not in social partner domain
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Form
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Not applicable
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Not applicable
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Social partners' role in the
implementation, monitoring and assessment phase:
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No involvement
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Main level of involvement: N/A
Involvement
No involvment.
Views and reactions
No information available.
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