Projects in 2021

In 2021 three new projects (Transnationalisation of eldercare – diversities, recruitments, inequalities (TE-DRI), Early Care and the Role of Men (ECAROM), and Contact Tracing in the EU: Lessons to be Learned for the Future Use of Technology in Fighting Societal Challenges) were implemented. We continued with the implementation of 24 projects in the fields of human rights and minorities, politics, gender and the media. By the end of the year, certain projects were completed.

Transnationalisation of eldercare – diversities, recruitments, inequalities (TE-DRI)
Project duration: 1/10/2021 – 30/9/2024
The project researches the intersections of eldercare and migration. Structural shortcomings of eldercare in Europe, including in Slovenia, have been fully exposed during the Covid-19 pandemic, which demonstrates how much the daily organisation of eldercare in European societies depends on global and circular care migrations and on care mobilities between the neighbouring countries.

The core research question is how diverse care mobilities (global care chain, circular care migration, daily cross-border care commuting and mobility of eldercare users) interact with labour recruitment processes, mechanisms, actors and transnational inequalities. In terms of geopolitical diversity, the project addresses East-to-East, and South-to-East care movements of EU citizens and non-citizens which impacts on labour recruitment frameworks and transnational inequalities. The research has a potential for policy developments in long-term care and labour migration.

Early Care and the Role of Men (ECAROM)
Project duration: 1/2/2021 – 31/1/2023
The project is based on the recognition that the educational system, especially that part of it that refers to the earliest period of gender stereotypes formation, i.e. preschool education, is crucial on the one hand for reproduction and on the other hand for reducing and overcoming gender stereotypes. Therefore, the project aims to explore pedagogical practices of formal and hidden curricula in preschool education that influence the formation of gender stereotypes about care work. The project will develop and disseminate innovative gender sensitive pedagogical approaches and tools for kindergarten teachers that promote perception of care work as gender neutral and a socially important area. Gender equality in the division of private and/or professional care work presupposes the loosening and changing of existing gender roles and social norms not only for women but also for men, however, men receive little attention in existing gender equality policies, programs and projects. In the ECAROM project, we start from the recognition that the success of efforts for gender equality also depends on the involvement of men, so we focus our activities on changing gender stereotypes associated with masculinity and caring work.