

RISE - Roma Inclusive School Experiences is a project funded by the REC (Rights, Equality and Citizenship) programme of the European Union. The objectives of the project are the following: to promote a more welcoming and inclusive school for Roma children 6 to 14 years old; to fight the discrimination in education and to prevent and reducing absenteeism and educational disengagement of Roma children. At the same time, it is very important to build a more inclusive school for all the students: a better school for all is our slogan.
The RISE project book "School Education, Minorities and Life: Roma Inclusive School Experiences" is out! The book contains the final reflections and documentation of the RISE project, starting from the presentation of the actions implemented in the local contexts where the project has been developed (Bologna and Bari in Italy, Braga District in Portugal and Novo-Mesto in Slovenia).
The RISE project video "A message to Europe" has been uploaded on the YouTube channel of the Department of Education Sciences of the University of Bologna.
The Council of Europe, international organization whose aim is to sustain democracy, human rights, European cultural identity and the searching for solutions to social problems, emanated a new recommendation to on the necessity to analyze and revise current school curricula, textbooks and other teaching or learning materials with a view to eliminating stereotyping related to Roma and/or Travellers and to promoting issues
The Final International Conference of the RISE project took place on Friday the 14th of February 2020 at the Institute of the Innocents in Florence. The title of the Conference is "Building a School Together: Inclusive Experiences from Roma Children".
You can consul the program and pictures of the event directly in the documentation section of this website.
From the 10th to the 11th of December 2018 the intermediate RISE project meeting will take place at the Universidate do Minho in Braga, Portugal. The meeting will represent the occasion for the partners to discuss the overall and specific implementation of the project activities. Here below you can consult the program of the project meeting.
The international seminar "Empowering Roma people through knowledge production: the role of researchers, academics and civil society" took place from the 6th to the 8th of December 2018 at the Institute of Education of the University of Minho in Braga. You can read more information following this link and consult the program of the event here below.
In the month of October 2018 the RISE project was presented at a Regional Festival in Slovenia organized by the RISE partner Center Novo Mesto. Here below you can consult some pictures from the event.
On the 7th of September 2018 a training day took place at the Department of Education Sciences of the University of Bologna in the frame of the RISE project. The training was focused on issues related to the school inclusion of Roma children and teenagers. Here below you can consult the program of the training.
On the 22nd of October 2018, at the IC Japigia 1 Verga of Bari, the first training meeting in the frame of RISE project took place. The event "Porrajmos: the forgotten holocaust of the Gypsies" was addressed to the schools managers and teachers. The crucial moment of the event was the dialogue-lesson among Pino Petruzzelli, director/actor of the Theater of Genova, and Luca Bravi, expert in Roma and Sinti History at the University of Florence.