We help Roma integration of Roma into the labour market within Danube region

We help Roma integration of Roma into the labour market within Danube  region: the Center of Social and Psychological Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (hereinafter CSPS) became a partner of the European project of the Danube Transnational Programme 2014 -2020.

Within the project Interreg Danube Transnational Program 2014-2020 scheme the Center of Social and Psychological Sciences will collaborate on a project titled Changing Discourses, Changing Practices: The Roma and Human Resource - RARE.

Since 2017 we have been cooperating with 20 project partners from Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and the Czech Republic. Czech Republic. The key project activities in the field of the innovative intervention models will be implemented by ETP Slovakia – Center for sustainable development and civic association Ľudia a Tatry.

CSPS will coordinate and provide the main expert analyzes of the situation of Roma in the labor market and recommendations for the public policy in 6 project countries. The analytical outputs will then be a basis for a testing and implementation of innovative intervention models.

Most of the estimated 5,2 M Roma people living in the Danube Region, facing an intolerance, discrimination or exclusion from the labor market. Employment of Roma increasingly appears to be a structural problem that affects many other factors at the national and local levels. The project aims to strengthen capacity and cooperation between the authorities, which have an impact on the labor market and the Roma. Also, the project will test the innovative intervention models for involvement of Roma into the labour market and to develop the compelling economic arguments for such intervention.

More information about the project can be found at: www.interreg-danube.eu/rare

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