Torsello, Davide - Pappová, Melinda: Social Networks in Movement. Time, interaction and interethnic spaces in Central Eastern Europe - Nostra Tempora 8. (Somorja-Dunaszerdahely, 2003)
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Research on the ethnic problematic 281 1990). An independent interdisciplinary research team composed by seven to ten Institute members was involved in the project. Unfortunately, the team was constrained by the rapid loss of employees during the research period. This was because most members of the team were young persons at the start of their careers and who left their positions either because of the actuality, or because of fear of eventual financial cuts. The research team ceased to exist (in 1989, the Institute’s staff was at 46; presently there are about 20 members). Research on the Roma subject was ensured within the framework of various other grant projects studying ethnic minorities in Slovakia. These included, for example, the projects of VEGA: "Policy towards national and ethnic minorities in Slovakia between 1945-1954” and “Inter-generational memory as a mediator for forming new identities in the process of transformation of the Slovak society.” Presently, the Roma research has been conducted within the framework of the project "Roma in Slovakia in the period from the Theresian reforms to the present.” The leader of this twomember team is Anna Jurová. The researchers’ interests are not limited to the historical aspects of the problem, since in many areas “historical” interest shifts towards present problems. Instead, particular attention is paid to events in the 1990s, to the current situation, to consulting, expertise and review activities. The results of these projects have been presented primarily at scientific and other workshops and conferences, such as those sponsored by the Foundation of F. Eberth, UNICEF, the Institute of Indology at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague, the Institute for Modern History of the Academy of Sciences in Prague; to a lesser degree they have also been used in practical life. Lectures were organised for Roma activists (within the framework of the KESAJ foundation and the Society of Women without Differences of Nationality), for students of secondary schools in Košice, for the Roma Youth Summer School and so on. The Institute also monitors media articles published in both the Roma and the
