Equal access to quality education for Roma

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Equal access to quality education for Roma

Despite years of governmental promises, Roma children in many European countries remain excluded from quality education. Segregated into Roma-only classes or schools, wrongly shunted into special schools for children with intellectual disabilities, crowded into decrepit classrooms and let down by teachers' low expectations, Roma children face serious challenges to complete even basic education.

Roma are Europe's largest minority and a key part of its future. Unless European leaders live up to their promises, Europe will pay dearly for losing another generation of Roma children to discrimination and neglect.

This is the situation of Roma children in education as detailed in the series of EUMAP monitoring reports on Equal Access to Quality Education for Roma. The monitoring project was established in 2005 and is carried out in co-operation with the ESP (Education Support program) and RPP (Roma Participation Program) of the Open Society Institute. It follows up on previous EUMAP reports on Roma in eight Central and Eastern European countries and Germany in 2001-2004.

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Two volumes of reports and a summary report were published in 2007, covering eight of the countries involved in the Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005-2015 and an international overview. All country reports were translated in national languages in 2007-2008.

NEW! Translation of both country report and overview in Slovak

Download or order either volume or separate country reports:

Country reports in both English and translation: Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia.
International overview in English and seven other languages

Press Info and coverage

Read the press releases for each of the report launches and related press info, and review some of the media coverage the reports have received.

NEW! Launch of Macedonian country report: press release (in English and Macedonian)

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EUMAP monitoring is aimed at sparking advocacy activities. The reports on Equal Access to Quality Education for Roma are now being used in a number of national follow-up projects.

New! Hungarian survey questionnaire and methodology of update monitoring in Slovakia online now

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Read more about the project, review the project’s methodology, find an overview of reporters, specialists and case study locations, or download a copy of the poster.

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NEW! ESP presents a web-based calculator for Roma education data and the publication “Experiences of the Roma Education Initiative”

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