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Authors Jakob Hurrle, Charles University Prague, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geography Andrey Ivanov, UNDP Regional Support Centre, Bratislava Jan Grill, University of St. Andrews, Department of Anthropology Jaroslav Kling, UNDP Regional Support Centre, Bratislava Daniel Škobla, UNDP Regional Support Centre, Bratislava
Acknowledgements This report is the result of a short-term research project that was initiated by the Bratislava Regional Support Centre of the United Nations Development Programme and realized in early 2012. We would like to thank first of all the Slovak Government (namely, the ESF Managing Authority and the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family) for agreeing to provide access to the data on the respective projects and various other internal documents. The team was particularly supported by Zuzana Polačková and Marek Hojsík who were providing important insights in the process. We would further like to thank Ján Valovský from the Slovak Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family, who spent days generating project files from the Ministry’s electronic archive. The report benefited also from support and valuable comments provided by Enrica Chiozza and Jana Koláriková from DG Regional policy and Dominique Be and Martin Orth from DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion.