<< Objectives >>The project partners from Germany, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Serbia and Spain aim in the long run at keeping Roma music for coming generations and to preserve it as part of the cultural heritage of Europe. For that, “ROMusicA” shall provide the pre-conditions.<< Implementation >>Project activities are:1. Situation and need analysis with involvement of Roma musicians and experts.2. Workshop of ideas with involvement of Roma, Roma women and Roma musicians as well as relevant stakeholders.3. Designing of follow-up projects with which the identified needs shall be covered.<< Results >>Apart from comprehensive concepts for follow-up projects, a brochure for the distribution of information and a collection of recordings of Roma songs and melodies for which no notations exist will be developed during the project.

In its resolution from 12 February 2019, the European Parliament showed the deficits in the implementation of the National Strategies for the integration of Roma and demanded therefore a stronger post 2020 EU-Framework. Without a doubt, there is progress in the four central fields of Roma integration – education, housing, employment and health. However, the unlimited health care of Roma is still not ensured.In the frame of the strategic partnership „Roma HEALTH Care“ (2017-1-DE02-KA204-004216), the health situation of Roma in different European countries was complexly researched for the first time. In a dialogue with relevant stakeholders at the local/regional level, the results of this analysis were discussed and the needs were selected that can be covered with support of European projects and the available resources on the spot.The strategic partnership „Roma HEALTH Care II“ is one of those follow-up projects. Basically, it aims at the improvement of the health situation of Roma in the partner countries. Among others, it shall particularly lead to:- raising the share of Roma obtaining a health insurance- increasing the number of Roma making use of available cancer prevention measures- decreasing the number of addicted Roma respectively of Roma who are threatened by addictions- improving the vaccination status - reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies and the risk of venereal diseases- improving the dental hygiene- raising the number of Roma who regularly go in for sports and who eat healthier.In order to achieve the objectives, health education centres shall be established in the involved Roma communities in which accordingly trained health mediators – Roma themselves – implement target group specific measures of adult education for raising the health literacy. The training of health mediators is based on a newly developed Curriculum. An especially developed Handbook serves them as accompanying reference book. Local Action Plans Health for Roma are the legal framework for their work. The project will be realised by partners from Germany, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, Hungary and Romania.In the project, Roma are not only beneficiaries but actors. On one hand they will be involved in the elaboration of the Intellectual Outputs, trained as health mediators and multipliers, implement and assess the Test Phases and disseminate information on the project and its results. On the other hand, they will participate in the adult education measures for raising their health literacy and contribute themselves to the improvement of their health situation this way.Thus, the project will concretely help to accomplish the demands formulated in the resolution of the European Parliament. This is particularly valid for:- the unlimited medical/health care and- the active involvement of Roma and Roma communities in the development, implementation and evaluation of measures andprojects for this target group.

"<< Background >>„…They steal like ravens, are not willing to work and a people of restless nomads…“ – if it comes to Roma we are quick with prejudices. However, much heavier is the fact that they can be mobilised at any time what is not only reflected in regular riots but also in their actual living conditions in a sad way. They are still the poorest, the most unemployed, the least educated and the shortest living Europeans.With estimated 10 – 12 million members, Roma are the biggest ethnic minority in Europe. Almost 5 million live in the partner countries of the project. A relevant reason for the permanent discrimination of Roma is their low education level. Therefore, the disadvantages in the education sector that is a central field for the social integration and rise particularly of such a young population are the most obvious. A real segregation exists. In the new strategic frameworks of the EU for the integration of Roma, a row of objectives is fixed. Until 2030, the actual equality, the socio-economic inclusion and the reasonable participation of the Roma shall be achieved (Factsheet of the European Commission, October 2020).<< Objectives >>RESUME would like to contribute to those ambitions objectives in the partner countries concretely by achieving - an improvement of the access of Roma to education and lifelong learning; - an avoidance of drop-outs from education measures;- a promotion of the equal quality of education offers for all learners; - an improvement of the learning success of Roma; - the visualisation of the damages done by discrimination and segregation in education.<< Implementation >>Activities of the project are:- the joint elaboration of the project results by the project partners in the frame of transnational thematic work groups- Workshops ""RESUME"" for stakeholders from all fields of education- Intercultural trainings for education staff belonging to the majority- Education of 48 Roma Inclusion Mediators- Implementation of a 12 months Test Phase in the partner countries with a scientifically attended evaluation- European Conference for experts and stakeholders from other European countries.<< Results >>Results of the project are:1. Curriculum and training material for the education of Roma Inclusion Mediators.2. Online-Toolkit for Roma Inclusion Mediators supporting their practical work.3. Illustrated Romanes primer for children and adults.4. Training material for the training of trainers who will educate the Roma Inclusion Mediators.5. Training material for the intercultural training of education staff belonging to the majority.6. Training of 16 staff members of the partner organisations (partly Roma themselves) as trainers for the education of Roma Inclusion Mediators.7. Education of 48 Roma Inclusion Mediators in the partner countries. 8. Intercultural trainings for 80 kindergarten and school teachers, adult educators and vocational trainers.9. Use of the newly acquired knowledge and skills by the Roma Inclusion Mediators in the frame of need-based and appropriate mediation activities.10. Dissemination and exploitation of the project results."

<< Objectives >>With 10 – 12 million members, Roma are the biggest ethnic minority in Europe. The key to their inclusion is both education and an unlimited access to professional orientation and job preparation. “pROceed goes practise” aims at raising the flexibility of opportunities in VET, at reducing prejudices and stereotypes, at counteracting the discrimination of Roma in education and employment and at promoting their socio-economic inclusion.<< Implementation >>Apart from the activities for the elaboration and dissemination of the project products, the partners from Germany, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia implement project meetings, two Pilot Trainings for the education of trainers, information and sensitisation events for teachers and social workers in schools, multiplier trainings, workshops for employers, the testing of the project products and a European Conference.<< Results >>Project results are among others:1. Guideline for the professional orientation of young Roma2. Online Self Assessment Tool for Roma for identifying appropriate jobs3. Accredited Curricula for the implementation of training courses for the preparation of adult Roma for selected jobs4. Successful finalisation of the training courses by 140 Roma5. Manual for employers6. Dissemination and exploitation of the project results

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” ― Albert EinsteinReading fairy tales to children or storytelling does not only lay a foundation stone of literacy development but relates also to various cross-cultural values and behaviours. Studies also show that regular storytelling activities can help broaden a child’s vocabulary. The imagination of children is promoted when they are listening to fairy tales. Fairy tales contribute to preserving language, habits and traditions.With 10 to 12 million, Roma are the largest ethnic minority in Europe.Opposite to majority societies, Roma do not have their own land and - with limitations - also no national identity. What unites them beyond the borders of the countries they are living in are their myths, habits and traditions. For preserving and developing their cultural identity further, their language - Romanes - is indispensable. Due to the century long social and cultural stigmatisation and discriminiation of the Roma and their language, the usage of Romanes as literature and stage language was avoided. This led to the situation that Romanes could not really be enrooted in education. Our project aims in the long run at preserving Romanes through fairy tales as relevant part of the cultural identity of Roma and at utilising it for intercultural and cross-generational learning and for improving basic skills. Because, whatvever Roma do and whereever they go, they only rarely have their own fairy tales. Roma fairy tales were not written down and therefore not picturised. They are neither to be found in their bookshelf nor in a book shop or on the internet. The low number of still present fairy tales are only existing in the heads of a few of storytellers. It is a question of time until they disappear as well...In the frame of the project, Roma fairy tales shall be tracked and collected in Germany, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Turkey. Since no usual sources, such as archives or libraries, can be reverted to, the project partners will at first identify Roma who are known as story tellers and who obtain a treasure of legends, anecdotes and stories. Accordingly trained staff members of the partner organisations will then record the fairy tales, put them down on paper and translate them into English. After that, they shall be examined for similarities and differences and categorised by animal stories, magic stories, legends, anecdotes and aetiological stories. In a follow-up project, the selected fairy tales shall be translated into the mainly spoken Romanes-dialect and the national language of the partner countries and published as a European Roma fairy tale book.