Politieke en sociale wetenschappen

Equitable Access to Third-Level Education & Employment for International Protection Applicants, Refugees & Ethnic Minorities Across the European Union:

There are approximately sixty-five million displaced people around the world today, with twenty-five million of those living as refugees. For context, this level of forced displacement has not been witnessed since the end of the Second World War. Seeking International Protection (IP) is a fundamental human right, and each signatory of the 1951 Geneva Convention on the Protection of Refugees must assess any application for IP sought within their sovereign territory. There were 400,000 applications for IP in Europe in 2020, with the majority of refugees fleeing war-torn regions in the Middle East and Africa. This level of displacement is only set to rise in future years due to the impacts of climate change, geopolitical instability and other rights abuses. For these reasons there is a need to assess how Europe treats those seeking IP within its borders.

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Challenges of Slovensko Digital in the sphere of digitisation of public services

The citizen and the entrepreneur want to be as interconnected as possible when interacting with the state. The concept of proactive public administration services is an ideal situation for citizens and entrepreneurs. This means that many processes take place in the background, the citizen and the entrepreneur are unaware of them and are contacted by the public administration only in situations where it is necessary. This is a paradigm shift “citizen and entrepreneur as a postman for the authorities”.

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Hoe kunnen we de schoolse motivatie vergroten bij jonge tieners (vnl uit kansengroepen)?

Heel wat 10- tot 14-jarigen kampen met motivatieproblemen op school, rebelleren, spijbelen of stoppen zonder diploma te behalen hun schoolcarrière. Ze vinden bijvoorbeeld geen aansluiting bij schoolse methoden en thema’s, hebben te maken met een welzijnsproblematiek of kampen met een moeilijke thuissituatie. Hoe kunnen we ervoor zorgen dat deze jongeren wel de nodige motivatie vinden en zich verbonden voelen met de school en alles wat daarbij komt kijken?

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BOOST

The community foundation East Flanders supports various bottom up projects of social importance. We note that the majority of the projects applying for project support are driven by organisations and/or highly educated middle class citizens. We would like to explore to what extent we as a community foundation can also support projects that are designed and driven by people from an intended target group.

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