"Amaro Foro is offering counselling and support for integration into the society of the Sinty and Roma in Berlin, also running the largest social contact point for Roma in Germany which is funded by Berlin local government. It provides advice on employment, education, health, housing and social security issues and support Roma in their affairs with the administration.After the Corona virus problem appeared and all the services moved online we realized that we have a big problem when it's about offering the usual services to our beneficiary because they can't access them trough internet.We had discussions with our partners from Romania, Hungary, Macedonia where our partners face similar situations and we tried to identify a solution for this.This lead the Roma adults to face a much bigger exclusion, their access to public services being much more restricted booth because of economical situations (they don’t afford devices from where to access internet and they don’t afford to pay the internet bill) and because of educational situation (more than 40% of the Roma adults are illiterate – Fundamental Rights Agency data)Being a group with a high percentage of illiteracy we needed to identify an innovative way of teaching how to use internet with as less as possible written information's.Project objectives:With our project we aim to increase the access of Roma adults to public services by developing a tool which to allow them to learn easier how to use internet for this.The project objectives are:1. To develop 2 innovative artistic tolls which to make easier the learning process of the Roma about internet and how to use the internet for daily life activities during this project.2. To increase the ICT knowledge and skills of 80 Roma adults from 4 partners countries during the project3. To increase the knowledge and skills of 20 social workers, health mediators, NGO people and volunteers about how to support adults to develop their internet skills and knowledge during the project4. To capacitate Roma and pro-Roma civil society organizations in working with Roma using modern technologyThe number of participants are 80 adults from four countries whose ages can be divided into two groups, young Roma adults between 18-35 and middle-aged Roma adults between 36-55. Besides, 20 social workers, health mediators, NGO people and volunteers will be included. The participants’ profile: We will have Roma adults who cant easily access internet and cant get social services provided via internet (social services, shopping, banking, school, health services, information and also a social life), and most of them are illiterate which means they don’t know how to write and read. We will have diverse grup of Roma people from ghettos, segregated communities, rural areas, migrant or very traditional Roma and Roma in middle class standards. We will have also 20 social workers, health mediators, NGO people and volunteers from staff of NGOs who work with Roma in order to help them to increase the knowledge of those people to be able to benefit from internet and offer them online support.Activities:1. We will create 2 intellectual outputs (""Basic Digital Skills"" and ""Digital skills for all"") first aiming to teach basic digital skills about how to use internet devices and online communication channels for illiterate people mainly based on illustrations and second one about safe use of internet to access public services and to do daily life activities like shopping, banking, education and other. This one will also use illustrations but also small movies and small text. In order to do that we will work for each guide in 3 stages (making the tool, testing the tool and gathering recommendations and reshaping the final version). For the evaluation we will involve 20 mentors from Romania Germany, Hungary and Macedonia, 5/ country and 80 adults, 20/ country. The mentors will be trained in a 3 days training. The Roma adults will receive each one tablet and will be supported in the learning process by one mentor. To gather suggestions and recommendations we will have two evaluation meetings during the testing phase.The tools which we produce will be wide disseminated at national level in the 4 countries where we tested but also at European and international level with the help of ERGO network The methodology of the project will involve different approaches from research, experts meetings, practical testing in Roma communities of the tools to international dissemination conferences where we will disseminate this project.We expect that the developed tools, based on principles of digital citizenship will help Roma adults and other disadvantaged groups to quickly mitigate knowledge and skill gaps of utilizing the internet as well as define the appropriate and responsible use of technology among the users.Roma adults as digital citizens will promote and poses the following values:respect, educate, and protection of human rights"

"Given the current COVID-19 crisis and its social impact, we intend to launch this project that will give youth a voice and encourage active participation, especially of youth with fewer opportunities, with the aim of contributing to the construction of citizenship active and committed to the European project. This project aims to alleviate the difficulties for face-to-face and community participation that the current health crisis is causing through the creation of a EUROPEAN YOUTH COMMUNITY RADIO that offers opportunities for youth participation and empowerment. Community radio will be an educational tool that will help young people improve their skills and debate and address some key issues in the ongoing construction of the European project.This Strategic Partnership in the field of youth project entitled - EUROPEAN COMMUNITY YOUTH RADIO - aims to create a European network of organizations from different European countries, from which to promote the development of a more structured cooperation, online and offline , between different youth organizations in order to strengthen associations focusing on solidarity and inclusive democratic participation of all, with the aim of giving a voice to youth, promoting the active participation of youth and their empowerment using community radio as a tool . We will use community radio as a tool for participation and learning. We believe that community radio provides spaces to empower, develop and mainly, empower youth, so that they speak out in community life. In addition, the network and community radio will have the support of the different mobilities that arise in the development of this project.The young people who participate in the project will be involved in all its phases. Once the project begins, a youth base group will be created in each of the organizations made up of young people from the local community, guaranteeing the participation of socially disadvantaged young people who, accompanied by youth workers, will design the lines of the local base of every community radio. This group will try to involve the greatest number of young people in the development of radio, trying to involve young people who are socially disadvantaged due to geographical (rural), cultural (migrant origin, minorities) and / or economic reasons. By participating in this project, youth will have the opportunity to exercise their right to participate as a full actor in social development. Society has the duty to allow access to this full citizenship and the responsibility to count on the youth as an agent of present and future development.We will address the main areas of the youth sector: Involve. Connect. Train. We will involve youth in EU youth decision-making and seek to make their voice heard. At the same time we will connect young people and youth workers through the European community radio and the mobilities that we will carry out. And finally, we will try to empower the youth by encouraging them to take charge of their lives, giving them a voice and fostering youth cooperation.Also, the project plans to:• Hold two transnational meetings• Launch 2 training / learning activities addressing key elements of the project.• Create educational and creative resources (Podcasts) on the topics that the project will address.• Promote service-learning activities as an innovative learning tool linked to the EUROPEAN COMMUNITY YOUTH RADIO.• Promote the exchange of good practices.• Dissemination activities for the Erasmus + Program and the CES.In the implementation of the project we will use an active and participatory methodology linked to non-formal education. We will also use an innovative methodology called ""Service-Learning"". Service-learning is a methodology oriented to education for citizenship, inspired by active pedagogies and compatible with other educational strategies. In this project it is also conceived as a method to unite learning and social commitment: learning to be competent by being useful to others.It is expected that a total of 36 people will participate in the European training actions that appear in this project and that directly or indirectly in the project about 600 people will participate in childhood, adolescence, youth, in addition to volunteers, experts, technicians and managers of the partner entities that will be involved in the different phases of the project.The project will involve 6 entities with extensive experience at the local and European level from France, Portugal, Italy, the Republic of North Macedonia, Germany and Spain and will have a total duration of 26 months, starting on May 31, 2021."

<< Objectives >>We will exchange and develop good practices (1. Social detective games 2. Community campaigns) developed and facilitated by young Roma people in order to develop their competences and active citizenship and shape the attitudes of other young people regarding Roma and other social groups and inspire their inclusive democratic. Besides sharing good practices training the staff of partners and selected young people we will also share the developed methods with youth workers around Europe.<< Implementation >>We will exchange, develop and share good practices of social detective games / community campaigns designed and realized by young Roma people. Related to this we will implement staff training, select and train young Roma people and build methods of new detective games and community campaigns and realize them. The methods and results will be disseminated in the ERGO Network – international organizations working with Roma, in order to use the good practices in the future in all European countries.<< Results >>2 internationally shared and developed know-hows1 foundation bricks4 methods and case studies2*8 trained young Roma’s competences will develop and also become more active citizens2*60 young people participating in the detective games and 2*100/2*2000 young people reached by offline/online campaign activities30/100 international youth workers, youth organization representatives, decision makers and Roma and other minority organizations’ colleagues reached by offline/online activities

Association Co-Efficient and its partners has a wide range of experience/expertise of involvement young people with fewer opportunities into local and international actions/learning experiences. Inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities is a main horizontal objective of our daily work, offering regular community and development services in our Afterschool service at Gyöngyös. Early school leaving (ESL) is a concerning phenomenon across Europe, but particulary in Hungary and Romania. A joint empirical research conducted by Association Co-Efficient and Nevo Parudimos between 2015-17 (LEADNFL) confirmed that ESL is having a particularly negative effect on marginalised Roma youth living in poverty, often experiencing double discrimination an facing the negative consequences of ESL.Youth work had a particular responsibility during the lockdowns experienced in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic: marginalised young people couldn’t follow the digital curriculum for a variety of reasons, further boosting the negative effects already experienced. The problem was not only access to digital tools, but more deeply routed: a mismatch in institutional expectations and available support.’Avas Khetane - Get Together’ project aims for a paradigm shift by developing a long-term structural methodology using art and experiental learning as a tool, tailor-made with individual development plans for the needs of young people with fewer opportunities, endangered by ESL. The project combines the expertise of youth workers and teachers, as it is cross-sectoral involving primary schools a grassroot human service providers engaged in youth work.The partnership aim to gather best practices, develop the tailor made methodology, pilot it with the involvement of 30 young people and widely disseminate the results via the intellectual outputs.ACTIVITIES OF THE PROJECT1. Kick-off in Hungary – start of the project (3 working days + two travel days)2. 3 subsequent Transnational meetings- TMs scheduled for major milestones3. IO1– methodology handbook based designed, tested by a cross-sectoral and multinational team of experts. 4. Dissemination: national conferences organised by Hungarian and Romanian partners to disseminate the results of the project and an international conference aimed at mainstreaming the results for the wider European audience.

As evidenced by several studies and reports Roma children are overrepresented in lower social stratas, are more vulnerable regarding early school leaving (ESL) and often children of Roma families find themselves in segregated educational institutions. Our project is a follow up of the research conducted by Együttható Egyesület and Nevo Parudimos in the frames of the LEADNFL project mapping ESL patterns in segregated communities and is aiming to collect and analyse data in a very specific way of segregation: educating Roma children with special needs in special schools. Althought in most of the cases the diagnosis justifying special education is valid, the socio-economic reasons behind an underperforming child are not taken into consideration. Attention-deficit or intellectual disabilities might well be the results of lacking access to healthcare and early childhood development, while the lack of social capital and financial resources may result in families lacking access to existing support structures in the later stages of development (i.e. specific development, youth services, labour market services, etc). The lack of access results in the circle of poverty and marginalisation on an even larger level, as the individual is stigmatized both because of ethnicity and because of disability.Our 24 months long project aim to -understand the reasons, associated life-paths and the consequences of education in such institutions by condicting, analysing and publishing 20 in-depth interviews/country involing stakeholders-formulate policy reform recommendations by an expert panel, on the grounds of our findings addressed at national and European decision makers, highlighting the importance of secondary support structures in the form of youth organizations and their toolkits-raising awareness on the issue amongst representatives, professionals and decision-makers of the sectors of formal education, secondary youth services, child protection structures, government administrationActivities of the project-5 transnational meetings-Intellectual output 1 – analysis of 25 in-depth interviews in 3 countries, in country language, aggregated summary publication in EN (not direct translation, is a shorter version of all 3 studies)-Intellectual output 2 – policy recommendation by expert panel, 1/ country + 1 on European level-4 Conferences in Hungary, North-Macedonia and Romania – involving more than 250 relevant stakeholders-Lobby meeting in Brussels as closing event involving EU officials-wide dissemination activities