Program
About the project
Raising awareness among young people to the particularities of Roma culture and the obstacles that they are facing daily within the Slovenian society, as well as the direct contact between members of the Roma and non-Roma community will hopefully create a closer relation between the two, a stronger feeling of empathy and acceptance. The seminar aims to function as a model of tolerance, mutual understanding and inter-ethnic learning among different but equal young people.
Further on, we hope to raise awareness within the larger international community to the problems that the Roma minority is being confronted with and stir up further debate on the issue, in view of future anti-discrimination initiatives. We want to bring more attention to the potential of young people in contributing to the improvement of the situation and in the need to invest in the areas of youth and education regarding inter-ethnic dialogue and minority protection. Thus we hope that the project will bring its contribution to the creation of a more open and tolerant environment in the future.Moreover, the project is a starting point towards the creation of a motivated and dedicated young team dealing specifically with the topic of human rights and discriminated groups; a team willing to invest their effort in further research and action, within the Slovenian community and the larger European society. The participants will develop during the one week event ideas of projects to be further implemented in their home associations. They will be initially involved in the online working group created as follow up of the seminar. With the skills and the knowledge gained at the seminar, they will later on have the possibility to create themselves similar events and stimulate the involvement of their home association in the area of human rights protection, with particular focus on the Roma minority. Therefore, as a long-term result of the project, concrete solutions to practical problems will be generated and disseminated through other associations in their countries across Europe.
In conclusion, the project seeks to contribute to the change of attitude towards the Roma minority. Through its wide dissemination of conclusions and results it strives to broaden the debate and stimulate anti-discrimination and minority protection action on a European level. In a more particular note, it aims at helping youth overcome barriers and become more self-aware citizens in relation to a pressing issue that faces European society at the moment.
By facilitating a better understanding of the Roma and the problems with which they are faced, the project ultimately hopes to contribute to the creation of a more tolerant social environment.