International research collaboration in Prishtina, Kosovo
A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed between NEVET and the Private Bearer of Higher Education "Qeap-Heimerer" at the Department of Pedagogy and Speech Therapy in Prishtina, Kosovo. In the spirit of intellectual cooperation and international understanding, both parties voluntarily joined in agreement on research cooperation and agreed to establish a program of collaboration on the study of 'Young Children's' Perceptions on Risk and Protection'. The purpose of this cooperation is to promote cooperative research and to facilitate the international exchange of ideas on the study. The modes of cooperation will include: a) exchange of information on the research; b) implementation of the research study; and c) joint scholarly publications. Dr. Ponizovsky-Bergelson and PhD candidate Mr. Uka will coordinate the implementation of this joint project.
Cooperation with the Israeli Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services
NEVET members: Natalie Ulitsa and Yan Serdtse, and Dr. Yael Ponizovsky-Bergelson gave lectures on families in cultural transitions from context-informed perspectives in the updated curriculum of cultural competence training courses for social workers developed by Yael Steinfeld. The lectures were held in the Central School for Training Welfare Workers, which operates within the Division of Research, Planning and Training in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services.
NEVET-PENN Collaboration
In June 2015 we initiated a collaboration between NEVET and The School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. Together we planed to study the role of context (race, religion and ethnicity) in risk prevention and intervention as a platform for context-informed competence training. The American partners are Professors Roberta Sands, Lina Hartocollis, Irene Wong and Jerry Bourjolly together with DSW candidate. The Israeli team included Professor Roer-Strier and Dr. Nadan Yochay as well as doctorate students Rivky Kessing, Lital Yona, Shelly Ingdao-Vanda and Netanel Gemara.
Collaboration with Russian State Social University (Moscow, Russia)
As part of the Tempus Project ("TACHYwe"), a group of NEVET members visited Russia and hosted two groups of social work students and their teachers in Israel visiting from Moscow. Through this project we met Professor Firsov, one of the 3 leaders of social work in Russia, who founded the Center for Cross-Cultural and Transversal Social Work in Russian State Social University (Moscow, Russia) this year. The social University is responsible for writing the curricula for all the schools of social work in the Russian Universities. The main goal of the center is the realization of scientific and educational activities in the field of cross-cultural social work, implementation of research and the development of international collaborations. In December of 2015 Natalie Ulitsa and Yan Serdse, both PhD candidates at the Social Work and Social Welfare at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, visited Moscow as part of the Tempus TACHYwe project. The relationship between the center and NEVET Greenhouse are in ongoing development and we signed an agreement of scientific and research collaboration this February. Both sides are very interested in professional collaborations which include the exchange of knowledge, joint research, joint publications and workshop. Natalie Ulitsa was appointed to coordinate the collaborative venture.
Collaboration with Argentinian team
Argentinian team of psychologists led by Susana Strier including Emilia Canzutti and Adriana Lopez . All are involved in volunteer community work including planning directing and implementing innovation prevention and intervention programs.The team leaders together with research assistant Ines Pierucci carried out the Photo Voice study of children in diverse neighborhoods in Argentina.The group leader presented the findings In a conference in Israel in 2016 and the group presented comperative findings to the community of the participating institutions in San Isidro, Argentina in 2017 and in a conference of the International Association of Cross Cultural Psychology (IACCP) in Canada in 2018. The presentation was titled “Children and parents perspectives on risk the context of impoverished neighborhoods. Lessons from Israel and Argentina”.
