TERNO - Teachers' Education for Roma New Opportunities in School

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Country/partner countries
Greece, Italy, Romania, Hungary, Spain

Project lead partner/organization and contact person (e-mail, links) project website
Action Synergy S.A.
Internet site: http://www.action.gr

Contact: Mrs. Anastasia Balaska
Email: euprograms@action.gr

Project information – start and end date (if available)
2012-2014

Summary (goals and purposes of the project)
General Objectives:
• To prevent early school leaving of Roma children and support Roma children to progress from elementary to secondary education.

Specific Objectives:
1) To train the teachers (or teaching assistants) who teach the Roma in order to support Roma children to complete elementary education as well as to inform their parents of the ways they can help their children.
2) To build and organise support centres which will work after school hours and will be run by trained teachers who will be able to provide support to Roma children who attend the last classes of elementary school.

Results of the project
- Methodology for the training of teachers
- The training of teachers
- Setting up and the implementation of support centres
- Information sessions with Roma parents
- Monitoring mechanisms

Who will benefit from this project (target group)
Final beneficiaries:
- Teachers of Roma children (4-6 in each country)
- Roma children (20 children in each country)
- Parents of Roma children (30 parents in each country)

Intermediary organisations:
- Roma Associations, NGOs etc. (3)

Stakeholders:
- Educational Authorities (1)
- Local or Regional Authority (1)
- Training Institutions (3)
- Pedagogical Experts (3)

Sources of funding
Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission

Link
http://romaterno.eu/index.php/en/

Document - materials that incurred in the project
Attending the educational needs of Roma children (Comparative analysis)
Teachers’ aid for the supplementary education of Roma children
National Report on the Existing Situation on the Education of Roma children in Greece
National Report on the Existing Situation on the Education of Roma children in Italy
National Report on the Existing Situation on the Education of Roma children in Romania
National Report on the Existing Situation on the Education of Roma children in Spain
Video final de TERNO
Educational visit of Roma children to the Acropolis of Athens
Educational visit of Roma children to Hellenic Children's Museum
Visit of Roma children to the cinema with their mothers
Roma Terno - Theatrical Play
Maria, Roma TERNO student
Conversation with Roma TERNO students
Pelagia Pachi, Greek teacher of the Roma Terno project
Roma Terno - Maria Tzenaki speaks about the program