It is not too Late Conference 17-18 January 2017 Town Council Prague (Czech Republic)

On 17 and 18 January 2017 in the Town Council of Prague experts from many countries of Europe are going to meet in order to discuss the issue of school inclusion of Roma children. It is not too Late Conference, organized by RomPraha, is an opportunity to share at EU level all the best initiatives taken at local level to foster school inclusion of Roma children and evaluate their replicability and trasferibility and to contribute to orient public policies towards a more effective integration

It is not too Late Conference will be carried out in the framework of PAL project (cofounded by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme of European Union), a project that aims to address the issue of ant-Gypsyism and to improve the level of social inclusion of Roma people.

Consortium is made up by 19 full partners and 4 associate partners, coming from more than 10 European countries. During the Conference each partner will present at least one best practice. 19 partners’ experts will be involved. At least 100 people at local level (including teachers, trainers, representatives of local authiorities, Roma people and Roma support organisations) will participate and a web streaming will be arranged.

Contact person: Lucie Kovacova (RomPraha) – goralad@seznam.cz

Official video of It is not too late Awareness Raising Campaign

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncUiEYJ3N28&feature=youtu.be

IT IS NOT TOO LATE CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

17 January – 1^st Day

08:00 – 09:00 – Registration of participants

09:00 – 09:30 – Opening ceremony of the event

Jan Wolf, the councillor of capitol city Prague for the area of culture, object historical furnace, exhibition and tourism
Ladislav Goral, chairman of RomPraha

09:30 – 10:30 – Fighting discrimination in education

Moderator Iveta Demeterová

Martina Horváthová , Slovo 21, z. s.
Alena Vosáhlová, Romodrom o. p. s.
Mgr. Klára Laurenčíková, Ministry of labour and social Affairs
Mgr. Jakub Čihák, R-Mosty, z.s.
Mgr. Vladimír Foist, Agency for social Inclusion

10:30 – 11:00 – Coffee break

11:00 – 13:00 – Fighting discrimination in education

Moderator Iveta Demeterová

Mgr. Helena Sádílková, M. A., Ph. D., Roma studies, Prague
Dr. Marius Taba, expert from Hungary
Martin Martínek, M. A. , Government Council for Roma Minority Affairs, Prague
Štěpán Drahokoupil, Open Society Fund, Prague
Mgr. David Beňák, Deputy of the prosecutor for the management of the Human Rights Section, Prague
Michal Ďorď , Vteřina poté, z.s.
Parčiová Ivona, IQ Roma servis, z. s., Brno

12:30 – 13:00 – Press conference

ČTK, Romea, Český rozhlas

13:00 – 13:45 – Lunch

13:45 – 15:00 – Presentation of selected topics

Moderator Iveta Demeterová

Importance of official recognition of anti-Gypsyism – RomPraha, Czech Republic
Root cause of Roma marginalisation – Corvinus University, Hungary
Promoting the human rights perespective and equal citizenship for Roma – FLM, Italy
Various forms of discrimination and circles of anti-Gypsyism – ENLACE, Spain
Importance of sensitiv the mainstream population – Komunikujeme, o.p.s., Czech Republic

15:00 – 15:30 – Coffee break

15:30 – 16:30 – Presentation of selected topics

Moderator Iveta Demeterová

Fight against the forms of Roma-intergation in education – IPSA, Greece
Media process of fighting the stereotypes and prejudices about Roma – IED,Greece
Roma Youth – AHAD, Romania
Enforcement and antidiscrimination legislativ, independence of equality bodies from political parties and access to justice – SRDA, Belgium

16:30 – 17:00 Discussion and end of the first day of the conference

18 January – 2^nd Day

08:30– 09:00 – Registration of participants

09:00 – 10:30 – Best practices (PAL partners)

Moderator Iveta Demeterová

Czech Republic – RomPraha, s.z.
Hungary – UCCU
Greece – ANATOLIKI SA
Italy – Comude di Reggio Emilia
Romania – AHEAD
France – ALDA

10:30 – 11:00 – Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 – Best practices (PAL partners)

Moderator Iveta Demeterová

Spain – FFF
Greece – IPSA
Czech Republic – Komunikujeme, o.p.s.
Hungary – Corvinus University Budapest
Spain – ENLACE
Czech Republic – House of National Minorities, o.p.s.
Spain – Florida University

12:30 – 13:15 – Lunch

13:15 – 14:45 – Best practices (PAL partners)

Moderator Iveta Demeterová

Italy – Consorzio Innopolis
Slovenia – SOCA
Belgium – SRDA
Italy – FLM
Belgium – UC Limburg VZW
Greece – IED

14:45 – 15:15 – Final evaluation summary and recommendations for further actions, discussion

PAL in Europe – meetings and activities

Till now PAL partners have organized a lot of events in order to present PAL project, discuss PAL issues and the situation of Roma in Europe: social research, training activities, needs analysis, best practices, actions to be taken. PAL partners have organized meeting with local and national stakeholders, activities with Roma families and children, roundtables and other. Below some photos by PAL community.

Belgium