In February and May 2013, the experts from the Institute for Public Affairs realized educational project “IVO expertise for improvement of the content of university education”. In the framework of the seminar on the current history, they prepared a lecture-seminar course entitled Transformation of Society in Slovakia.
The lecturers from Institutes for Public Affairs were IVO president Grigorij Mesežnikov, sociologists Zora Bútorová and Oľga Gyárfášová, IVO honorary president Martin Bútora and analyst Miroslav Kollár.
The topics of the course were as follows:
- Transformation of the Slovak society after 1989
- Political party system in Slovakia
- Interethnic relations and politics of minorities in Slovakia
- Sociocultural background of transformation
- Public opinion as a indicator of transformational processes of the country
- The nongovernmental sector, NGOs, civil society and active citizenship in Slovakia
- Voter turnout as a fundamental factor of a political participation in Slovakia
- Public media in Slovakia: role, perspective and social responsibility
- Twenty years of debates on the gender equality in Slovakia
- Problems of the regional development of Slovakia
- How the orientation of independent Slovak foreign politics was born (from isolation to the integration to EU and NATO)
The project was concluded with a small workshop aimed at the explanation of empirical research methods.
The project was supported by Nadácia Tatra banky (Tatra banka Foundation).
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Zora Bútorová a Martin Bútora (both from IVO) at the one of the lecture sessions
