Let the Roma youth be heard
- Financiers: European Commission
- Start year: 2011
Description
Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission and EU Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, declared on 25 August 2010: “(…) During the past few weeks, the situation of the Roma – the largest ethnic minority in the European Union – has attracted the attention of policy-makers at both national and EU levels. I believe that the Roma are an important part of the population of the European Union, and that it is of paramount importance that they are well integrated into the societies of our Member States. The integration of 10 millions of Roma people is a priority for all Member States, for the European Institutions and for all actors operating at national level.”
On the basis of this consideration, the project “Let the Roma Youth Be Heard”, submitted within the Youth in Action Program, whose duration is 1 year, aims at promoting young people’s participation and the diversity across the European States which will take part in the project, that is France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Spain, and the “candidate” Turkey. The project consists in a training course on journalism which will take place in Spoleto and is addressed to 40 Roma young people, coming from the eight partner countries. The purpose of the training is to publish and post an on-line bimonthly newspaper, “Let the Roma Youth Be Heard”, which will focus on the Roma people’s conditions and will be disseminated through several tools such as websites, social networks and the like. Moreover, at the end of the project, the report “What Roma Can Do” will be published in 8,000 copies and disseminated through on-line mass-media.