MIRANDA Roma is an innovative project aiming to promote social inclusion through vocational training and improve the outreach to people with fewer opportunities. This will be achieved through:
i) the identification of stakeholders who can help and play an important role in reaching out to Roma learners, ii) the mapping/research with stakeholders to fully understand the problems of inclusion and improve VET
Schools and reduce the employment gap of the Roma minority. MIRANDA Roma aims also to address the barriers that Roma adults face in accessing opportunities in the labor market, as well as to contribute to the creation of inclusive environments that promote equality and equity in education.
This is provided by Inclusion empowerment of the VET Schools interventions & project activities which aim to empower the inclusion of VET Schools for Roma learners, such as developing an operational framework for VET Schools, through which Roma learners will be able to overcome the linguistic, social, and economic barriers they face during their studies, and to integrate into the labor market.
Moreover, educational barriers are addressed via developing innovative methods with digital content and audiovisual tool, as well as via the training of Trainers/Staff to transform horizontal the VET School into a more inclusive environment for Roma learners. Overall the project is aimed at facilitating the integration of excluded groups into new and more inclusive learning environments and increasing attractiveness of VET among Roma learners and in the Roma community in general.
Within this context, the main objectives of the MIRANDA Roma project are:
- To enhance Roma education and bridge social gaps.
- Enhancing the services of the VET Schools for Roma and other excluded groups
- Increasing the attractiveness of VET Schools in the Roma community
- Reducing the employment gap for Roma
- Reducing the gap in completion of upper secondary and vocational education for Roma
- Increasing public awareness of issues of discrimination suffered by Roma
- Informing the employers and stakeholders about the employment prospects of Roma
MIRANDA at a glance:
- Establishment of Roma Stakeholders Database
- Outreach Strategies for Roma learners
- Guidebook for Adaptation of VET Schools
- Guidebook for Supporting Services for Roma learners
- Guidebook for Intervention Mechanism for tackling dropouts of Roma learners
- Development of short-term “power up” courses for upskilling Roma learners
- LTTA for Trainers/staff in VET
- 5 Workshops with Stakeholders Database participants
- 5 Info Days in VET Schools
