ROMACT

✨Empowering communities through financial education! #ROMACT training sessions in Piatra Neamț & Comănești🇷🇴 gathered 4⃣3⃣ Community Action Group members to learn practical budgeting, saving & smarter spending. Real stories, real impact, real change. 💡📘

📍 Bucharest #ROMACT Workshop “Making the Invisible Visible” Experts, local authorities & academics met to discuss how better data can support people experiencing homelessness & those in informal settlements. 🔍 Focus on policy solutions & sustainable interventions.

🤝 In Isaccea 🇷🇴 #ROMACT supported improving communication & inclusive education efforts for vulnerable groups, including Roma. ✅ Partnerships strengthened and renewed dialogue with local leadership and the local communities.

🌱 In Trikala, 🇬🇷 we teamed up with local communities to launch an intercommunal Social Cooperative, empowering Roma from Pyrgos and Kipaki to lead green services for the municipality. A strong step toward community-driven economic empowerment. #SocialEconomy #RomaInclusion

📢Happening today in Sofia! #ROMACT National Forum “Decent Home, Secure Future”, co-organised with NCCEII. Leaders, experts & communities unite to tackle child poverty & housing insecurity, especially for Roma families. Every child deserves a safe home.

📊 Sibiu County Council is stepping up its data governance – with #ROMACT support! The new methodology on data use will ensure secure access, control & consistent use of data to inform public decisions and projects for vulnerable groups. #EvidenceBasedPolicy

🎉 With ROMACT support, the Municipality of Piatra Neamț secured funding for a new respite center for families of children with disabilities. ✅ 100 children and their parents will benefit from improved access to social services, inclusion, & long-term support.

🤝Implementation cycle completed in Tulcea🇷🇴 #ROMACT team met with Deputy Mayor George Singhi to review results, created mechanisms, what works, what needs strengthening & next steps beyond formal closure. 🌀A cycle ends, but the responsibility continues with local authorities.

✨Effective projects start with people! We brought together local teachers, mediators, municipal staff, activists, and entrepreneurs for a practical training on how to design and manage social inclusion projects that truly respond to community needs in 🇧🇬

👇Evaluation & Sustainability Meeting in Barlad🇷🇴 ROMACT team met with the Deputy Mayor to review results, Action Plan measures & next steps: 🔑 A local Roma expert is hired to continue the work within the administration. 👏Showing a strong sign of local ownership.

📢Apply to the 21st @coe Dialogue Meeting with Roma & Traveller CSOs. 🗣️Join the discussion on inclusion, resilience & democracy under the New Democratic Pact for Europe. 📍Strasbourg/online 🗓️31 Mar–1 Apr 2026 ⏰ Deadline for applications 15 Feb 2026 👉🔗 go.coe.int/Ly3qr

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📚Teachers, educational mediators and municipal staff recently gathered in Sofia🇧🇬for a training on "Inclusive Education: Working in and with the Roma Community" organised under the #ROMACT Programme. 🎯The focus was on inclusive communication, self-reflection and peer learning.

In Bârlad🇷🇴, ROMACT delivered a financial education training grounded in real life. For participants with very limited resources, money means survival, not optimization. 💬Honest talks on tough choices, family pressures & budgeting as a first step toward clarity and control 📊🤝

📢 Deadline extended to 11 December 2025! You can still apply to become a consultant and help us advance integrated social services in Romania 🇷🇴 More info and application documents ⬇️ 🔗go.coe.int/MTaL9

Another example of how joint efforts between communities and institutions deliver real, visible results.🤝 🚧Progress in Perushtitsa continues!🇧🇬 Following the water network replacement, fresh asphalt is now in place and the street of the neighbourhood is fully renewed. #ROMACT

🇷🇴 We are looking for consultants on social inclusion, law, project management, social assistance, anti-discrimination and other fields in Romania. 🗓️ Deadline: 7 December 2025 🔗 More information & application access ⬇️ eproc.coe.int/callfortenders…

We were in #Tulcea 🇷🇴with the Directorate of Assistance and Social Protection to support the development of preventive services to counter drug use & addictive behaviour. We thank our partners for trust & readiness to turn a sensitive need into an actionable plan.

⭐️Local democracy in action! In #Hisarya 🇧🇬 we delivered a training on advocacy and budgeting for #Roma community! Results: 2⃣0⃣ Roma municipal council & community members from 6⃣ municipalities supported to contribute to municipal budget process & implementation!

🗨️"It wasn’t just theory - it was about our municipality and what we can do. That made it real for us.” Participant from #Megara Municipality 🇬🇷 on #ROMACT training on improving the Local Action Plan ROMACT ensures meaningful participation & targeted support for Roma inclusion.