"""Whe nyo ur eadt hi ste xty ouk no whow itfe elsi fyo uc ann otr eadp rop er ly."" (source of the German text: ""Grundbildung in Europa: Projekte und Perspektiven"", NA BIBB). According to UNESCO, an estimated number of 73 million adult Europeans are considered as functional illiterates. This is equal to 1/5 of the employable population aged 18 to 64 years. In the partner countries of the project this concerns 7.5 million adults in Germany; 2 million in Greece; 1.2 million in Hungary and 3.8 million in Romania. Unfortunately, there are no valid figures concerning the literacy rate of Roma. Experts say that the share of functional illiterates among adult Roma in the partner countries is 40 to 60 per cent. For this reason, Curricula for alphabetisation courses for Roma were developed in the Strategic Partnership „RomABC goes Europe!“ that consider their special needs. However, the envisaged improvements in reading and writing competences fell too short because functional illiteracy is also reflected in calculating, in dealing with ICT and in the capacity to act in every-day-life. Therefore, the further development of the Curriculum for raising the literacy rate of adult Roma with the emphasis numeracy and IT basics were the centre of our follow-up project. Besides, the development of a Handbook for trainers, a basic vocabulary and subject-relating vocabularies, the education of trainers in the frame of a Pilot Training and the elaboration of the concept for according Mobility Projects (KA1) were other parts of the project. „RomABC - the next dimension!“ was implemented by partner organisations from Germany, Greece, Hungary and Romania and aimed particularly at the reduction of functional illiterates among adult Roma, at increasing of their employability and at raising their share in adult education measures. With that, the project contributes concretely to the implementation of the EU Framework for national strategies for the Roma integration until 2020 and the national strategies of the partner countries as part of the Europe 2020 strategy including the European Agenda Adult Education, particularly the raising of the employment rate and the reduction of the part of Roma that is threatened by poverty and social exclusion."

According to the Eurobarometer, 83 per cent of the Europeans think that fake news threaten democracy; 73 per cent of Internet users are concerned that fake news in the internet have a negative influence on the elections to the European Parliament. However, in the age of digitalisation it is much more relevant that hate speeches and disinformation manifest the stronger in the collective opinion the more often they are published. If the same contents are then even coming from different sources, the risk, that they are considered as true or that a great mass of Internet users accepts them silently, gets higher. In all partner countries the amount of hate speech and disinformation – spread in the Internet – is increasing, with an upward trend. Unfortunately, particularly disadvantaged groups of persons, such as refugees, Roma, members of national minorities, Jews, Muslims or Homosexuals, are in their focus.Consequences are an increasing social exclusion and discrimination; the self-confidence of the concerned people gets lower, their fear grows; the number of verbal and physical attacks rises; prejudices and stereotypes are sizing. Finally, this leads to the fact that the right of free development is more and more limited for those target groups. Without a doubt, the initiatives that have been started by the EU and the laws that were enforced by several partner countries are a step in the right direction and have an according impact in practice. But they help the concerned people only in a limited way because they are only applied when the damage is already done. Therefore, our project „Pro Dialogue” aims at initiating a social dialogue at the local/regional level of the partner countries that combats the reasons for hate speech and fake news. On one hand, it shall be based on verified information and facts, be led rather rationally than emotionally and exclude abuses and insults. On the other hand, it shall bring concerned and involved people together and ensure that they do not speak about each other but with each other. In that, emphasis are subjects that are oriented on the daily life and that have a direct impact on the living together in the local community. Therefore, the project partners from Germany, Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Hungary will generate the following results together:1. Curriculum for the education of Dialogators including training material2. Toolkit for Dialogators 3. Trained Dialogators4. Trained multipliers 5. Practise test (dialogue activities) and optimisation of the Intellectual Outputs6. Blended Learning Course for the education of Dialogators 7. Concept for Mobility projects (KA1) for the education of Dialogators 8. Dissemination and exploitation of the results

"""Whe nyo ur eadt hi ste xty ouk no whow itfe elsi fyo uc ann otr eadp rop er ly.""(source of the German text: ""Grundbildung in Europa: Projekte und Perspektiven"", NA BIBB).According to UNESCO, an estimated number of 73 million adult Europeans are considered as functional illiterates. This is equal to 1/5 of the employable population aged 18 to 64 years. Taking reliable figures on the extension of functional illiteracy into consideration (e.g. leo – Level One Study in Germany), this concerns 6.2 Mio. adults in Germany, 2 Mio. in Greece, 1.2 Mio. in Hungary, 0.2 Mio. in North Macedonia, 3.8 Mio. in Romania, 0.8 Mio. in Serbia and 0.5 Mio. in Slovakia. Unfortunately, there are no valid figures concerning the literacy rate of Roma. Experts say that the share of functional illiterates among adult in urban regions of the partner countries is about 60 per cent, in rural areas partly up to 80 per cent. Women are particularly concerned. Unfortunately, the low education level is still a relevant reason for the permanent discrimination of Roma. Disadvantages in the education sector which is a central field for the social integration and raising of such a young generation, are particularly visible. A real segregation exists. Many times, functional illiteracy is the reason for the difficult access of Roma to education and employment as basis for their social integration. For this reason, a Curriculum for alphabetisation courses for the improvement of the literacy of Roma in the fields reading, writing, numeracy and IT that is in line with their specific needs was developed in the Strategic Partnerships „RomABC goes Europe!“ and „RomABC – the next dimension“. During the testing of this Curriculum in the frame of according courses, it got obvious that an insufficient health literacy and a lack of basic civic knowledge is also limiting the every-day-life of Roma relevantly. Therefore, the further development of the Curriculum for raising the literacy grade of adult Roma by those emphasis is the centre of our follow-up project.The comparable high share of functional illiterates among Roma does not only require a possibly nation-wide offer of tailored alphabetisation courses, accordingly trained adult educators but also innovative training offers and adequate training material. Those needs shall be covered in the project by:- the further development of the Handbook for trainers including the vocabularies- the education of trainers in a Pilot Training- the utilisation of the training material for webinars and - the development of a blended learning course for the alphabetisation of Roma from level 3.In the frame of a study the partners will implement in their countries, additional disadvantaged target groups shall be identified for which tailor-made alphabetisation courses would also be necessary. The resulting needs for the modification of the Curriculum and the Handbook shall be found out as well. „RomABC moves forward“ will be implemented by partner organisations from Germany, Greece, Hungary, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia and aims particularly on a reduction of the number of functional illiterates among adult Roma, the raising of their employability and the increasing of their share in adult education measures. Thus, the project contributes concretely to the implementation of the post-2020-EU-Framework for national Roma integration strategies and the according national strategies of the partner countries."