In 2011, the European Commission approved for the first time the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies, with the aim of improving the living conditions of this vulnerable community by 2020. The evaluation of the implementation of this framework highlighted that education was the area with the most significant progress, particularly through the reduction […]
The ACADE_ME project, launched in May 2024, is an ambitious and necessary initiative to tackle one of the most complex and deep-rooted problems in Europe: the social inclusion of Roma people. This project, a collaboration between Italian, Greek, Hungarian and Serbian partners, aims to combat anti-Gypsyism and discrimination through education, awareness-raising and the promotion of […]
The Amalipe Center for Interethnic Dialogue and Tolerance strongly disagrees with the amendments to the Pre-school and School Education Act adopted by the 50th National Assembly on August 7, 2024. These changes prohibit “propaganda, popularization, and incitement in any form, directly or indirectly, of ideas and views related to non-traditional sexual orientation and/or defining gender […]
This post will anger many in education. Some will recognize themselves, some will recognize their powerlessness and silence. Some of the rest will breathe a sigh of relief. Because the unfair practice of attracting students after the 7th grade is a public secret that has been going on for years: the promises are different, but […]
With high political and diplomatic participation, as well as with sincere words and advices, the newly elected student ombudspersons in 30 schools of the Amalipe Center network will remember the ceremony that marked the beginning of their mandate. It took place on 23.02 in the Granite Hall of the Council of Ministers. The Prime Minister […]
Nearly 50,000 children and pupils have been returned to classrooms in the last six years and dropout rates have dropped by nearly 40%, said Education Minister Prof. Tsokov and Prime Minister Acad. Denkov after the meeting of the Coordination Unit for the Full Coverage Mechanism. Upcoming developments in the work of the Coverage Teams in […]
Since the beginning of August, the Ministry of Education has formed two new working groups. One of them is preparing a Standard for the Quality Assessment of Education and the other one – normative changes to facilitate the linguistic integration of children and students whose mother language is different from Bulgarian. They include representatives of […]
The 15-th European Roma Platform brought together representatives of the EU Commission, National Roma Contact Points, other Governmental representatives and Roma and pro-Roma NGOs. It took place in Prague on October 25 and 26, 2022. More than 150 participants attended the Platform in person (for first time after the Covid crisis) and other 100 took […]
The state of educational segregation, models for desegregation and practical and successful examples from Bulgaria Spain and Belgium were presented during the Round table “The state of Roma educational segregation: data and practical solutions from Bulgaria and Spain”. It was organized by Center Amalipe and Fundacion Secrtariado Gitano on October 24 in Prague, in the […]
10% will be added to the subsistence allowances included in the common cost standards from July 1st. From the same date, the norm for the maintenance of a child in kindergarten, through which the Ministry of Education compensates for the dropping of fees in pre-school education, will be increased by 31%. The norm for student […]