GOOD PRACTICE 44 GREECE - PROJECT PROPOSAL: I AM ROMA: CHANGING MINDSETS» Region Crete Municipality Heraklion Action type PROJECT PROPOSAL: I AM ROMA: CHANGING MINDSETS» Level of the good practice demonstrated
Contact organisation HERAKLION MUNICIPALITY (European Programmes Department & Social Policy Department) Ms Despoina Syggelaki Vice Mayor tfn: +30 6 977778728 email: dsyggelaki@hotmail.com Themes Roma issues in general, Awareness-raising, Anti-Gypsyism Keywords campaign, Equal opportunities, participation Duration (start/end) 01/02/2011-31/01/2013 Scale local Context Roma population in Heraklion Municipality consists of mainly three groups: 1. the Roma greek citizens permanent residents of the Municipality (at the camp and in houses in the city complex), 2. the Roma greek citizens who move to Heraklion Municipality from other parts of the country to live and work at the wider area for certain period of time each year and 3. the Roma immigrants mainly from Albania, less from Bulgaria, but also from other countries (i.e. Romania). Description Campaign to enhance awareness and reduce the discrimination against Roma: 1. a. Creation of a DVD and TV-Spot with an anti-discrimination social message. b. Dissemination (TV-SPOT) in Local channels, Local Newspapers, Web Newspapers 2. Festival «The Celebration of Spring». It included: - Actions and plays between children - Micro sound coverage (Music) - Video recording (Editing, Montaz) - Buffet for children
- Canvas of the Festival 3. Poster, Leaflets, T-Shirts with an anti-discrimination social message. The posters were used to inform people in Heraklion about the event of The Festival, leaflets were distributed with the main messages of the project and the upcoming events and T-shirts were distributed to all students, who participated in the festival. T-shirts will be distributed to the students in schools, when we disseminate the dvd in primary schools. Leaflets will also be distributed, in the kiosk during the social research. 4. Social Research and Kiosk include: - Questionaires - Research - Final Report - Destribution of leaflets 5. Presentation of DVD in primary schools to students. Partners Civil society, including Roma community, European institutions, local or regional Other CD If the action was developed within the framework of a European project «SPECIFIC PROGRAMME: FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP 2007-2013 PROJECT: I AM ROMA: CHANGING MINDSETS Does the policy respond to a EU request and/or refer to EU Directive? Non Participation - A Roma representative participated at the local team meetings. - A Roma NGO visited Heraklion and participated in a meeting - Roma people participated in the creation of the SPOT - DVD Results obtained A number of schools, which received and used the DVD to children in public school classes - A number of people, who completed the social research - Dissemination of message TV-SPOT (quality indicator is sensitization of society) - The celebration of Spring Festival (quality indicator: the sensitization of children and quantity indicator: number of schools that participated) Long-term perspectives and sustainability of the action
Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) Further dissemination & sensitization Evaluation process Informally: at the Second Transnational Exchange Workshop May 2012 By the partners & at the Final Conference January 2013 By the participants Action validated as a good practice by European Commission DG Justice. Council Decision 2007/252/EC of 19 April 2007 establishing for the period 2007-2013 the specific programme "Fundamental rights and citizenship" as part of the General programme "Fundamental Rights and Justice". This decision establishes the programme "Fundamental rights and citizenship", which is intended to promote the development of a European society based on respect for fundamental rights. To this end, the programme provides for actions conducted by the European Commission, European Union (EU) countries and non-governmental organisations. Validated by European Commission Diffusion resources Other Action type PROJECT PROPOSAL: I AM ROMA: CHANGING MINDSETS» COE Good Practices and Policies http://goodpracticeroma.ppa.coe.int/ Wednesday, March 27, 2013-17:45