Deadline: 21-Feb-22
This Call for Partnership is part of Roma Education Fund’s (REF) new addition within its Scholarship Program.
It welcomes the support of organizations, movements, and other entities interested in becoming partners of REF and help the scholarship beneficiaries in building their skills by providing opportunities, internships, trainings, educational events, and community engagement activities.
The partners would support REF to:
- Build academy and personal skills of the Roma scholarship beneficiaries;
- Contribute to creation of a functional Roma network of students and alumni to build its capacities through community involvement;
- Encourage civic participation and community engagement for Roma scholarship beneficiaries to contribute to positive changes in the life of Roma communities.
Objectives
The following are objectives towards which the activities and interventions will be focused:
- To gather REF’s beneficiaries in one place where they would share and discuss topics important and related to their academic and community life;
- To build students’ capacities and social trust between them and their community as it is crucial for ensuring future advancement of the Roma community;
- To build an active and functional Roma students and alumni network (national and transnational);
- To encourage community engagement, civic participation and involvement in awareness raising activities for the young Roma beneficiaries;
- Facilitate and foster dialogue between Roma students, community representatives, schools, academics, Roma parents, e tc, to help strengthen Roma communities and have them become active advocates in bringing change while addressing the needs that affect Roma communities.
Activities
- To establish a network of students, REF grantees, NGOs, institutions, private or business sector and existing movements in the countries of intervention.
- Organizing of national discussions for students on up-to-date topics, important in their countries where their points of view and needs could be expressed and gathered for further action.
- Organizing of transnational discussions for community engagement and civic participation, students’ opportunity s at hand, their needs and interests to further develop a sustainable community-engagement component in the SP.
Criteria
- REF invites organizations, state institutions, business/private sectors, and youth movements to participate and further shape the scope of the work through offering access and expertise of their current undertakings.
- Ultimately, the organizations, institutions, and movements that would be selected as partners would support a formation of an active network of Roma students that would create improvement of the quality of life in Roma communities and offer comprehensive learning and upsurge of experience for the Roma students , future leaders and contributors to positive and inclusive changes.
- This Call for Partnership applies to the initial and focal activity 1: To establish an active network of students, REF grantees, NGOs, institutions, private or business sector, and existing movements in its countries of intervention.
- If you are a civil society organization, state institution, business or private sector, existing movement, network, or initiative that works particularly with Roma youth, students, and minorities in the following countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary , Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Romania, Slovakia, and Turkey – they invite you to be a partner to the Roma Education Fund by expressing your interest in this Call for Partnership.
- The benefits of this partnership – Prospective partners would commit to support REF’s initiative through engaging REF’s beneficiaries in their ongoing and envisaged activities. They should offer opportunities for professional and personal growth of REF’s Roma students’ beneficiaries by engaging them in their working environment, activities, practices and/or projects.
For more information, visit REF.
For more information, visit https://www.romaeducationfund.org/call-for-partnership-within-refs-scholarship-program/