The ROM‐ACT project aimed at widening access to non‐formal and informal learning validation systems among Roma women in Europe in order to strengthen their educational, social, and labour integration.
The previous research studies highlight that the Roma community has developed specific abilities and competences related to the type of work they have done, but most of them do not have academic degrees and formal work experiences.
The ROM‐ACT Project, taking into account the contributions and recommendations of previous research studies, had as main objective to widen and improve Roma women’s access to non‐formal and informal learning validation systems in Europe in order to promote their educative, labour and social integration. The project contributed to the improvement of the current national systems of validation by bringing them closer to the needs of non‐academic people and more disadvantaged groups, as the Roma community. The project also promoted and improved the access of non‐academic people to the national systems of validation, encouraging civil society organizations to support non‐academic Roma women in their process of informal and non‐ formal learning validation.
Innovative character
Main project outcomes
The partners of the project were organizations from Greece, Romania, Ireland, the Czech Republic and Spain.
At the beginning of 2016 the project “ROM‐ACT: Widening Roma women’s access to non‐formal and informal validation systems” was selected as a “success story” by a panel of experts from the Directorate‐General for Education and Culture of the European Commission. It has also been marked as such in the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform.
Duration: 2013-2014.