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Increase in youth participation at EP election: impact of an European Citizenship project on Slovak students.
Slovak Republic achieved the lowest voters turnout in the European Parliament elections both in 2004 (16.9%) and in 2009 (19.6%). The slight increase in the turnout that was recorded in 2009 was with the first-time voters aged 20-23. The evaluation of the voters mobilization has been done by experts who claimed that the only difference between the pre-election campaigns in 2004 and 2009 were mobilization projects focused on students. These projects were financially supported by the European Parliament and the European Commission. One of them was the project SEP (Student European Parliament) of the Department of Political Science, University of SS. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava. During 6 months this project developed activities focused on broadening the student’s knowledge about the European Union and the European Parliament.
First voters - high school and university students and the European Parliament elections 2009
According to official results, the statistical office recognized of the total number of 4,345,773 of eligible voters the 826,782 valid votes, representing 19.6%. The Slovak Republic has re-included itself with the lowest turnout reaching the last place among the 27 EU member countries. The highest electoral failure had been observed in Slovakia (80.4%), in Lithuania (79%) and Poland (75.5%). Slovakia belongs to a small group of countries (BG, PL, LV, EE), which had an overall trend of reducing participation in the elections to the EP (from 49.5% in 2004 to 45.5% in 2009) and recorded a growth in participation compared to 2004, of 2.7% (16.9% to 19.6%). Experts in the overall evaluation of the mobilization of voters to participate in the elections indicated that the relevant elements vary according to pre-campaign in Slovakia in 2009 from 2004 - these were only projects aimed at studying youth funded by the European Parliament and the European Commission. Eg. Eurotrain (IUVENTA), "Even you are the European Parliament." (IC EP in Bratislava), "Young European" (EC representation in Bratislava). One of these projects was the project Dpt. of Political Science at FF UCM in Trnava SEP, which in the course of 5 months of intensive activities aimed at developing the growth of knowledge about the EU and the EP and to mobilize them and their parents to participate in the elections to the EP.
OECD PISA 2006
57 countries over the world participated in OECD study PISA 2006: all 30 OECD member countries and 27 other, partner countries. Slovak Republic took part in the OECD study PISA for the second time. PISA tasks are not derived from the curricula and they were not aimed to find out, how students in respective country mastered the content-based knowledge. PISA tasks were developed according to the model of lifelong learning to assess three domains of students´ literacy – reading, mathematical and scientific literacy (the core of the PISA 2006 study). In the OECD PISA study, the literacy means ability to use knowledge and competencies gained during the compulsory education as well as ability to present own ideas and opinions.
Political and civic participation of university students in Slovakia (2007)
Overall interest into policy reaches at university students only 38%. Undergraduates favour right-wing and liberal values. In 2007 the assurance to politicians, political parties and to the parliament was relatively low (10-15%). European institutions (European Commission and European Parliament) also NGOs (Greenpeace, Amnesty International) have higher credit than Slovak institutions and NGOs (38%). The assurance to the Slovak Government remains untouched in comparison to years 2005 and 2007 (17.1% and 18.9%). The university students do not understand subject-matter of a relationship among legislative, executive and juridical/legal power. They overestimate the post of the prime minister. It would need to pay more systematic attention to research and to Civics at secondary schools.
Political and civil participation of students from secondary schools in Slovakia (2007)
Students expectations from their school self-governments are: especially development of the services for students during their stay at school (refreshment, copying of documents) and condition improvement for after school activities. Development of technical and scientific activities and to supply school by didactic technology has still got for students their persistence. It was surprise for us that students expectation on solving their problems in terms of school schedule, school order or school teaching deceased a bit compared with year 2005. Students avoid the conflicts with their teachers or school headmasters.
Youth and media – standard of young people media literacy in Slovakia (2007)
The results of our research indicate that young people interests are shifting from TV broadcasting to interactive forms of internet content (chat, discussion forums, social nets etc). Relatively large number of young people uses these new media technologies exclusively for entertainment and informal conversation with their peers. It is needed to take advantage of finding that young people like and are ready to discuss about media. Appropriate way of discussions should be disputable forums, round tables, informal trainings and others. To organise such events could be involved not only schools but self -government bodies – student school boards and youth parliaments.
Regional and local youth policy in Slovakia (2007)
On the conceptual and realization level we are finding sharp regional and local differences. HRA is concentrated on processing of conceptual scheme of youth policy in regions. There are some towns/cities without any conception of youth policy.We have found only a few young people (age up to 30) among elected bodies in local and regional self-governments (it rather seems to be exception). Committees for work with youth are still not perceive as important self-governments advisory boards. Professionals in the offices for work with youth are not specialized on youth problems but their duties and functions are cumulated together with the problems of education, sport and culture.
Socio – pathological difficulties of the Slovak Youth (2007)
The most frequent socio – pathological phenomena that the teachers deal with at their students are smoking tobacco, truancy, consuming alcohol, bulling and taking illegal drugs. The pupils with bad school results are very often not accepted by the teachers and also by their classmates. They not only dislike going to school because of more problems with the learning but also with their behaviour.
Free time and active citizenship of young people in Slovakia (2007)
The research showed that young people have approximately four hours of free time per day in average. Young people spend the most of their free time by relaxing and meeting friends. Communication technologies and internet play increasing role in young peoples´ free time activities. Young people are relatively autonomous when choosing their free time activities. The level of independence is decreasing when young people start their own family. The network of facilities and possibilities for free time activities is relatively good in the whole country, but they are only half-used by young people. The young unemployed people with 7,2 hours of free time per day are the most risky group and require more attention to be paid.
Young people of Slovak republic, their value orientation and ways of spending their free time (1994)
The aim of the of public opinion research, conducted by ÚVVM in february 1994 was to analyze: - attitude to life, value orientation and life aims of the Slovak youth, - rate of tolerance of young people in Slovakia towards other nationality, race or religion individual - picture of faith in the mind of young generation, - styles and options of spending free time of the youth, picture of the value orientation in some life situations of the youth, - fears linked with future and opinions of the youth on actuality of solution the important problems of their life, - the view on young people with their own eyes. With the term “youth” the survey means, people from 15 to 29 years.
Value orientation of young people in the process of transformation of the society (1997)
For this young generation it isn’t typical to care for public affairs. About two thirds of the questioned respondents does not care for the economic and political situation. Almost half of the respondents answered the question, if they understand political things that are happening in Slovakia, negatively. Young people percieve the interpersonal relationships in Slovak political scene quite critically. They think that corruption, hatered, will for power, struggles, distrust and smear are dominating and affecting these relationships.
Youth and European identity (2002)
European Identity is not an easy survey topic. Therefore, it is questionable what survey methods and techniques are suitable for acquiring relevant information. When examining attitudes to cultural diversity we tried to ask young people from 10 European cities (year 2002) whether they agree with certain statements, after whose acceptance or refusal they would not be one-sidedly viewed or considered as racist.
Participation of youth in the life of towns and villages (2002)
Main task of the survey was to penetrate deeper into the issue of integration of youth into the development process of towns and villages. For the first time after passing the jurisdictional act in 2001 it has enabled to monitor interaction between municipal authorities and the youth in towns and villages. At the same time it provided quantitative data about young people that are employed in the municipal authorities of towns and villages as well as information about the status of integration of the youth in the decision-making on the local level. Furthermore, it has provided information about the extent of mutual informing between municipal authorities and the youth, about differences in the preferences of problems solutions of the citizens of towns and villages from the point of young people's and of municipal authorities' view. Survey has also contributed to clarifying the motives of integration of the youth into developing activities in towns and villages.
OECD PISA 2003 (Programme for International Student Assessment)
In 2003 46 countries over the world participated in OECD study PISA and 7500 15-year-old students from 282 all types of schools were involved for the first time in this study from all Slovak regions. (PISA field trial, organized one year ago, was focused on verification of the testing tools like test items, tests, questionnaires, obtaining all types of students´responces and improving instructions on their evaluation). Representative and stratificated choice of our students gives us a possibility to generalise obtained results within our educational system and to compare with the results of the other participating countries.
Political participation of young people in Europe and in the Slovakia (2004)
EUYOUPART (2003-2005) is a supranational project financed within the frame of Fifth Framework Programme of the European Commission. Its main aim is to develop new means of measuring political participation of young people in Europe. Project was carried out by a group of researchers from eight European Union member states (Austria, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Great Britain and Slovakia) under the scientific and administrative cooperation of SORA Institute for Social Research and Analysis, Austria. CERYS-Center of European and Regional Youth Research at the University of SS Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia) was the cooperating representative from Slovakia.
Views of secondary school pupils and university students on the living conditions of the youth in the Slovak republic (2004)
Survey of views of young people on the living conditions in the Slovak republic is aimed at statements of secondary school pupils and university students about the influence of state politics on their way of life. Subject of the survey are views of pupils and students on: socioeconomic living conditions of the youth in the Slovak republic; conditions for education on Slovak schools; asserting of young people on the Slovak labour market; conditions for free time activities of young people in the Slovak republic; possibilities of young people to participate on the development of Slovak towns and villages; conditions for a family life in the Slovak republic; views of students and pupils on negative social phenomena.
Education to partnership and parenthood in elementary and secondary schools, inquiry into attitudes, value orientation and perception of gender stereotypes of adolescents
The aim of our survey was to map the ideas of adolescents about male and female roles, about functioning of partnership, sexuality and find out the level of knowledge about birth control and danger of sexual abuse. Obtained knowledge was supposed to help at the creation of a prevention programme: education to partnership and sexuality of elementary school pupils in the 9th year that was carried out in two experimental classes. Survey was performed in Bratislava.
Interest of secondary school students in the Armed Forces of Slovak Republic professional service (2005)
Analysis and public opinion department of SR MD monitors the interest of secondary school students in the armed forces service already from 2002. The survey discovers the way young people see the military profession, the army, what motives do they have for potential entry to the armed forces or the reasons for refusing the work in the army, how do they perceive the safety threats and if they think about becoming a professional soldiers. This survey was carried out for the third time in the 2005 fall on the sample of 1070 students in graduation grades from 45 chosen secondary schools (secondary schools, secondary agricultural and technical schools, secondary training colleges and associated secondary schools).
Participation of young people on school's self-government (2005)
Within the frame of the European Year of Citizenship (2005) and in connection with the task to compile documents for the National Report about awareness and participation of young people in the Slovak Republic for the year 2005 for the European Commission IUVENTA and UIPŠ (Institute of Information and School System Forecasting) carried out a survey about secondary and university youth. Its task was to penetrate deeper into the topic of school boards and academic senate in the education of democratic citizenship. Research was linked to the survey carried out by UIPŠ from 2004 with the aim to acquire more detailed information about the system of establishment of school boards, data necessary for the evaluation of their activity and acquire information about good examples of the functioning of school boards. Survey of university students has for the first time allowed to observe functioning and activities of academic senates on Slovak universities after 1989. At the same time, it offered data necessary for ascertaining whether students - members of school boards show ability to implement experience of civic and political participation on universities.
Social-political topic of youth in the Slovak republic (2006)
In connection with the need to understand the views of young people on current problems of the society and their willingness to participate on the solution of these problems the research task Social-political topic of youth in the Slovak republic aims at analysing the views of young people on some important social problems such as respecting human and children rights, views on democracy in our state and credibility of individual institutions and subjects, civil participation and political orientation as well as finding out the extent of social involvement of young people and the extent of their legal conscience. At the same time, it aims at monitoring the extent of knowledge of young people in the area of state politics and its relationship to the youth.
Social-pathologic issue of youth in the Slovak Republic (2006)
The aim of the research task "Social-pathologic issue of youth in the Slovak Republic" is to depict and analyse views and attitudes of young people to several negative social phenomena such as smoking of tobacco products, consumption of alcohol and illegal drugs, and existing manifestation of violence and perception of marginal groups by their contemporaries. Family environment, ways of spending leisure time and scale of values of young people also form part of the survey.
Survey of the opinion of young people for the needs of campaign „ALL DIFFERENT – ALL EQUAL"
The campaign „ALL DIFFERENT – ALL EQUAL" of the Council of Europe runs in 2006 and 2007 on national levels in many countries throughout the Europe. The project includes a specific demand of knowing what opinions and attitudes do the young people have on the given topic before the beginning and after the end of the project. This survey is based on three pillars of the campaign:Diversity, Human rights, Civic participation of young people and non-formal learning. One of the partial objectives of the survey was to formulate the basic recommendations for the youth policy, which should take into consideration the opinions and attitudes of young people, as well as their knowledge and willingness to participate on the civic life of the society.
