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Košice
Košice – one of the oldest towns in Slovakia – lies at the place where the River Hornád emerges from its picturesque wooded valley and flows onto an extensive plain.
By the end of the 19th century Košice had developed into one of the most important industrial cities in Greater Hungary. In 1918 Košice became part of the first Czechoslovak Republic.
From the 1950’s onwards the city experienced growth, accelerated mainly by the building of the East Slovakian Steelworks. In the space of one generation there was a five-fold increase in the city’s population, and a twenty-fold expansion in its built-up area. In 2008 Košice was awarded the status of the European Capital of Culture 2013.
Local challenges
Under the recent census: The total number of the citizens is 234.237 with a big presence of different nationalities like Slovaks Czechs, Moravians and Hungarians
Roma are about 5 429 (the Roma population is much larger under the estimates - in statistics many of them declare themselves belonging to other nationalities.)
The main local challenges related to the Roma minority are: the low level of education, many unqualified workers, high rate of unemployment, bad hygienic standard of living. Many of them live in isolated residential areas where the living conditions are much worse than in other wards of the city. As a result, they have enormously high unemployment rates, low level of education and professional qualifications, especially the women, unsatisfactory housing conditions, increased dependency on the social support system, high risk of social exclusion.
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