Erasmus plus Strategic Partnerships KA201
P.R.I.D.E. Policies for Roma Inclusive Dimension in
Europe
Project code 2019-1-RO01-KA201-063808
Coordinator
1.
Centrul Județean de
Resurse și Asistență Educațională Arad, Romania
Partners
2.
Liceul Tehnologic Francisc
Neuman, Romania
3.
Comune di
Sant'Alessio in Aspromonte, Italy
4.
Associazione Darsana
Teranga, Italy
5.
OPSTINA RUMA, Serbia
6.
Stil mladih, Serbia
7.
Tarsus İlçe Milli
eğitim Müdürlüğü (Tarsus MEM), Turkey
8.
Tarsus Mesleki ve
Teknik Anadolu Lisesi, Turkey
9.
Diefthinsi
Defterovathmias Dodecanesou (Directorate of Secondary Education in the
Dodecanese), Greece
10. Gymnasio Gennadiou (Secondary School of Gennadi),
Greece
Project description
More than 12 million Roma people live in the EU, according to the latest
studies, making them the largest minority group in Europe: in Romania, there
are almost a million Roma people, making the second largest minority, after
Hungarians. They are the most discriminated and socially excluded group,
especially in accessing education, employment, healthcare and housing. The lack
of education among Roma is one of main causes of their current situation: few
Roma children and young people go to school and their educational performance
is poor, which subsequently worsens their employment opportunities .Across
Europe discrimination and non-inclusive school systems systematically deprive
children from Roma communities of their right to education. Statistics indicate
that a high percentage of Roma people fail at school (the rates of early school
leaving are often more than double at primary school level, and a less than 8%
of Roma students complete secondary school). The project raises up from the
need to improve the educational level and consequently life condition of the
Roma, aiming to address measures to promote and boost Roma students’
development as an entry point for fostering the sustained social inclusion of
Roma students in the participating nations. Above all, involving together Roma
students and parents’ representatives, regional and local authorities,
stakeholders and NGOs the project aims to focus on how we can together create
appropriate policies, enforce their implementation and monitor their progress.
The project
will explore the situation of Roma students and their parents inclusion in the
consortium’s nations, the problems with which they face: it will outline the
policies implemented at national and EU level; it will highlight how to take
effective measures to ensure equal treatment and full access for Roma boys and
girls to quality and mainstream education and it will create and test an
inclusive and tailor-made model about teaching and learning methods, including
learning support for struggling learners and measures to fight illiteracy. The
model will increase the access to, and quality of, students’ education and
care; reduce early school leaving throughout all levels of education, including
at secondary level and vocational training; consider the needs of individual
pupils and address those accordingly, in close cooperation with their families;
encourage greater parental involvement.
The first transnational project meeting in Italy
