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The third issue of the Roma-Net Newsletter is now available.

6 simple rules of successful Roma integration

Béla Kézy, Nagykálló

Working with Roma communities, supporting their integration requires, among many other qualities, perseverance and tolerance for failure. One cannot expect quick wins or spectacular success stories; but with hard work, continuous commitment and following some simple rules we still can achieve lasting results - ones that we can be proud of.
So what are those rules? Following closely the presentations and workshops of the Roma-Net meeting held in Glasgow this November, I arrived at the following 6 key lessons.

Community Engagement and Employability were the themes of the 2nd event of Learning Cluster 1 held by the City of Glasgow. The progress of the project was evaluated too and partners presented their draft Local Action Plans with their planned actions concerning community participation.

Torrent presents first results of its urban development project.

Nagykálló (Hungary) has joined the Roma-Net partnership recently. The short description of the city can be found here.

The second event of Learning cluster 1 will focus on community engagement and the theme of employment-employability.

Roma-Net partners met in Bologna to discuss the theme of employability. Main issues were: transitional or intermediate labour market, the social economy and social accounting.

The second issue of the Roma-Net Newsletter is now available.

The thematic learning cluster 3 studies how to build a transitional labour market creating and using an intermadiate labour market. The agenda of the meeting can be found here.

The Baseline Study of Glasgow, Roma-Net partner for the phase II is now available.

Roma-Net project was presented by the Mayor of Udine at the above seminar organised jointly by Budapest, EUROCITIES and the Committee of the Regions under the logo of the Hungarian EU Presidency on 31st May 2011. The main findings of the seminar can be found here.

The 1st newsletter of Roma-Net project is now available.

Roma-Net partners gathered in Almería on 29-31 March 2011 to explore the key themes of learning  cluster 2:  Integrated and area based approaches to tackling exclusion and segregation including the application of an integrated area based approach to service provision; tackling segregation using housing improvement; and inclusive approaches to area based regeneration.

The European Commission  communication „An EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies" was published on 8th April in Budapest at the Roma Platform  meeting.

The thematic learning cluster 2 focus on the integrated and area based approach to tackling exclusion and segregation. The draft agenda of the learning cluster 2.1. event in Almería can be downloaded here.

The city of Udine hosted the first learning cluster event of Roma-Net on 23-25 November 2010. The theme was Active Community Engagement which included three learning components: social marketing, active community engagement and anti discrimination.

The first event of learning cluster 1 will focus on the following questions of active community engagament / empowerment:

How to work with the local support groups?
How to activate young Roma adults as partners at local level?

The Roma-Net Kick-off meeting video is now available.

How do you eat an elephant?

Roma-Net was officially set off on 16-17 September 2010 and a huge elephant (metaphorically speaking) was served up to the participants.

Heraklion will host the kick-off seminar on 16-17 September 2010. The draft agenda can be downloaded here.

After the decision of the Monitoring Committee, Roma-Net has officially entered into implementation phase from 19th July 2010. During the coming 30 months, the project will meet both local and transnational objectives.

The Roma-Net Baseline Study is now available.

A new partner has joined the Roma-net Projetc, it is the city of Košice in Slovakia. The members and profiles of the Košice's Local Support Group are listed below:

- H. Ricko
- H. Orvath
- J. Horvath
- L. Perhac
- K. Magdolenova
- S. Ondrova
- Z. Sabová

The profiles of the Budapest Local Support Group' members are now available. Click on the member's name below in order to download their CVs

- R. Sajgál
- I. Papinot
- V. Farkas
- D. Hargitai
- E. Somogyi
- A. Kelemen
- Z. Oláh
- I. Katona

On January 2010 in Budapest the first meeting of the URBACT Roma-net project took place.
The videoclip is available on the following link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdNGn6uSBuc&feature=player_embedded

How do you eat an elephant?

Roma-Net was officially set off on 16-17 September 2010 and a huge elephant (metaphorically speaking) was served up to the participants. Participants felt like ants having to eat a huge and still growing elephant without fork and knife but, we were not discouraged  as we cut off a much more manageable piece and started our planning!

The second Steering Group Meeting of the network was held on 17-18 May in Budapest. This meeting replaced the 22 – 23 April meeting which was cancelled due to the volcanic ash incident which closed most of the European airspace.

The first Steering Group meeting of the Roma network took place in Budapest from 7-9 January 2010 in order to plan the work for the development phase including the preparation for the second phase application to be submitted in May 2010.

Click here to download the Agenda.