Country | Recipients | Project Goals | Amount |
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| Bulgaria | - Consortium on Equal Access Foundation
- Drom Dromendar Newspaper | To influence education plans for Roma desegregation in six municipalities and to disseminate the positive experiences from the 8 already-established projects. | €35,240 |
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| | Student Society for Development of Interethnic Dialogue | To create a scholarship fund for students who cannot receive funds from the Roma Memorial University Scholarship Program; prepare Roma specialists; initiate activities to improve Roma students’ qualifications; research Roma history, language, and culture; create a personal database of young Roma to function as a career center; begin advocacy and policy development; and build on previous experience but with additional innovations. | €200,000 |
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| | Roma Youth Organization | Introduce Roma culture, language, and history to local administrators and society; aim to desegregate Roma in schools and society; and improve the chances of successful implementation of the school desegregation process in the Silven area. | €26,905 |
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| Hungary | - Ministry of Education
- Roma Program Assistance Network
- Roma Lom Foundation (Bulgaria)
- Pakiv European Roma Fund | Organize training courses for local NGOs to develop their fundraising skills; and disseminate knowledge. | €115,072 |
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| Kosovo | - Caritas-Kosovo
- Kosovar Catholic Church | Provide homework support; establish pre-school; and provide Roma language classes, life-skills based education, and healthy lifestyle tips to about 100 Roma children and teenagers living in a Kosovo refugee camp. Empower and build capacity for Roma parents, as well as promote joint activities between the Serbian, Albanian, and Roma children to facilitate integration. | €11,000 |
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| Macedonia | - Foundation OSI-Macedonia (FOSIM)
- Ministry of Education and Science
- Department of Education in the Languages of Minorities | Provide a stipend and school-based mentorship support to 500 Roma secondary school students throughout their secondary education, 180 of whom are already in their third or fourth year of secondary school. After the first year, access to the stipend will be merit based, with a required minimum GPA of 3.5. All Roma students will receive mentoring support throughout secondary school. Mentors will be trained and supervised. | €1,219,970 |
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| | Roma Community Center “DROM” – Komanovo | Organize workshop to raise awareness for journalists and policymakers; visit Roma parents; and produce musical and video material for distribution. | €19,475 |
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| | Roma Educational Network (REN) | At 4 existing and 6 new Roma education centers, REN will focus on enlarging the network, achieving policy impact and using best practice from prior experiences. Project activities will consist of training, workshops, stakeholders’ discussions, and a baseline study on Roma education that will help develop a strategy for sustainable work in education centers (including a concept for financing and project proposals) and a toolkit for the improvement of quality education of Roma. | €103,951 |
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| Montenegro | Ministry of Education and Science, Pedagogical Institute | Enhance Roma education at 5 sites by creating effective NGO–school partnerships, motivate schools to include Roma, supply schools with additional equipment, build capacity for teaching in a diverse environment, and involve Roma assistants in the teaching and learning process. The already established sites will be developed into model centers for Roma inclusion. | €348,734 |
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| Romania | Resources Center for Roma Communities | Select 10 trained teachers to become trainers themselves and train at least 80 more teachers, creating a “critical mass” of Roma teachers using the Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking method. | €71,704 |
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| Serbia | - National Council of the Roma National Minority
- Ministry of Education and Sport | Provide small grants of €1000-3000 and professional support to 150 educational institutions applying a Roma inclusion project in preschools. The project will serve 3000 Roma children and continue after the project ends. Roma coordinators will work on motivating Roma parents and connect the Roma community with educational institutions. | €200,000 (exact amount TBD) |
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| | Faculty of Philosophy at the Belgrade Institute of Pedagogy and Andragogy | Develop and pilot in 20 schools with 250 young adult students who have not completed basic education a new functional basic education program that provides general education and a professional certificate for one of five occupations selected based on local labor market need. A network of Roma coordinators will facilitate communication between the Roma community and educational institutions and motivate the young adults. | €371,714 |
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