Aurora AILINCAI Deputy Head of Division Roma and Travellers Team, - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Aurora AILINCAI Deputy Head of Division Roma and Travellers Team, Council of Europe

Integration vs Inclusion Integration : incorporation into Inclusion means that a person with a society or an organisation of disability, women, whoever, has the same individuals of different groups. rights, access and choices as everyone else in a community. "Inclusion is a right based philosophy. No inclusion without changing the system"

From integrated to inclusive education

Why? The Need for Change TO FROM A virtuous A vicious circle circle of of blame trust-building and and discouragement cooperation FROM AND TO Dependency Empowerment, Respect for and Recognition, human rights paternalism Community and active participation citizenship

Council of Europe CAHROM and other Committees THEMATIC VISITS + REPORTS DIALOGUE WITH CSO (input) Roma and Travellers Team INTERSECTIONAL MEETINGS BILATERAL AND MULTILATERAL COOPERATION STANDARD SETTING REINFORCING (defining) COOPERATION WITH EU CONECTING WITH EU MONITORING + CONTRIBUTING TO EU ULTIMATE GOAL REPORTING /ENLARGEMENT 2020 Implementation of the + standards by the CONTRIBUTION TO Member States SHADOW REPORTING IMPLEMENTATION MONITORING (bridging the gaps) (identifying the gaps) FCNM Monitoring anti-discrimination (law enforcement) PROGRAMMES/ recommendations ECRI local governance PROJECTS ECRLM community development and participation - PILOTING HR COMM. (in the decision making and political) - INNOVATION ESC education, culture, history - TESTING gender/women VISITS + REPORT access to justice

Draft COUNCIL OF EUROPE STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN FOR ROMA AND TRAVELLER INCLUSION (2020-2025) PRIORITY AREAS FOR 2020-2025 Combating anti-Gypsyism Supporting democratic Supporting access to Priority 1 Priority 2 Priority 3 and discrimination and participation and promote inclusive quality education support real and effective public trust and and training equality accountability addressing hate speech within a • • participation of Roma and • removal of concrete obstacles to equal human rights framework; Travellers in public and political access to quality education is • awareness-raising activities; life at all levels; supported at national and school level; • training of law enforcement • reinforced capacity of national • the capacity of teachers to manage professionals; and local authorities; diversity and adopt inclusive teaching access to justice by Roma and • • increased capacity of local methods is enhanced; Travellers including through capacity authorities to access and use Teaching of Roma and Traveller history • building activities; national and international funding, and the Roma Holocaust is promoted • visibility of CoE actions, including in particular EU funds, to support and included in school curricula and the case law of the European Court their Roma inclusion strategies; texts books, including through training of Human Rights and the findings • Roma and Traveller expertise and of trainers and teachers; and recommendations of the understanding in all services of Increased visibility and recognition of • monitoring bodies. the Council of Europe Secretariat. the Roma Holocaust; • Increased chances for a successful transition from education to employment for Roma and Traveller youth.

Rationale for intervention in education Initial impact Influence on the national/local policies (contribution to the design and implementation of national and local strategies and action plans) Policies development Legal texts projects/programmes Piloting, implementation Elaboration of methods and tools Medium and long term impact Contribution to the creation of a fair and inclusive education system; positive impact on the access to and performance in education for Roma children 7

INSCHOOL 1 Key figures* 2 ACTIVE NATIONAL WORKING GROUPS 2 PLATFORMS IDENTIFIED WHERE INSCHOOL WILL / COULD BE INVOLVED

INSCHOOL 2 – Main objectives 1) Schools are made more inclusive through support to the school staff, teachers, parents and children; 2) Networking is further developed among inclusive schools at the domestic and international levels; 3) Support is provided to remove concrete obstacles to equal access to quality education at the national level; 4) Awareness is raised about the benefits of inclusive education for the general public as well as decision makers;

Some achievements and results CM Recommendations on the education of Roma Country monitoring and children in Europe recommendation reports Framework Convention on the protection of national Implementation by MS minorities ECRI, Social Charter Changes in the legislation/practices in a no of countries ECHR (case-law on edcuation) Reforms in education Partnerships with the national Training for teachers and institutes for curricula, for training of pedagogical staff (programme teachers, pedagogical institutes Pestalozzi) Representation of Roma in the school curricula and text books (GEI/REF/CoE) Change in the curricula content Roma representation in European museums Recommendation on teaching Roma history Recommendation on Remembrance 10

Democratic Schools for All Counci cil of f Europe Reference Framework of f Competence ces for Democr cratic Cult lture The 3 volumes downloadable on CoE website