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Give them a chance!
Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2019 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Within the project Give them a chance (acronym GEM) the project partners from Slovenia, Hungary and Croatia will prepara a training program for teachers, who in different educational and professional adult training educate the members of Romani ethnic manority. The educators of the adults, that work in area with members of Romani ethnic minority and include them in different educational programs, are also facing the lack of need for development and ascent of competences of professional staff (teachers), who educate the members of Romani ethnic minority in adult educational programs and we are facing similar problems, such as: a) high decrease of the number of members of Romani ethnic minority, as in programs of formal education as well in professional training;b) unsuccessfulness of adult Roma in all forms of education and trainings, and also extremly poor teaching achievements; c) educational drop-outs, due to different reasons (poor understanding of the language of the majority and vocabulary, poor graphomotoric skills, demotivation due to different system values, low self-esteem,…). Success in education of adult Roma often depends upon their motivation for visiting the. Roma are experiencing every situation, in witch they appear, extremely emotional, so because of this one must act with them, also in education, extremely subtile, above all is necessary to offer them large rate of understanding and accepting them with all their specialities, which causes many problems for teachers within the adult education.Many teachers, that teach in our programs, don't have concrete experiences with teaching the adult members of Romani ethnic minority. No formal program of education, that future teachers are being educated about, has given knowledge how to teach members of different vulnerable groups and consider their social and linguistic specifics.Because of this have the project partners, LU Lendava, POU Čakovec, Amrita obk Pécs, UZOR Orehovica and Romani Union of SLovenia decided, that we will prepare a program for the teachers in educational and professional programs for adults, that educate the members of Romani ethnic minority. In that way we will contribute to development of competences for working with adult Romani population, and in direct way contribute to higher success of adult Roma in formal and informal education, as well in adult professional trainings. Before the preparation of training program we will perform an extensive research and do the analysis of the needs, we will also manage to provide preparation of quality program of training to raise the competences of teachers, who teach adult Roma in educational programs, as such will be implemented in pilot training program realisations and the gained competences will be tested in practice. The Roma, that will take part in education within the project, will prepare a manifesto of learning of members of Romani ethnic minority, in which they will describe what kind of teaching and learnig they wish to have.Partnership, that was formed in the project, wasn't created only for the needs of the project, but our cooperation has already existed for longer time, however, as partners we matured to this degree, that we dare to accede to implement such an important idea with our knowledge and experiences, above all for the Romani community. Our wish is not only to qualify and develop the competences of the teachers for their work with adult members of Romani ethnic minority, but also to enpower the Romani ethnic minorities in the field of education. The common idea is not the only thing that connects the partners, but also our shared past and culturally-historical base.
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