2029 Quality education in Romani for Europe ECML experts: David Little, Ireland and Barbara Schrammel-Leber, Austria
Local organiser: Ioannis Galantomos, Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics, Department of Primary Education, Democritus University of Thrace
Working language: English and Greek
Participants: 30 school teachers, pre-service teachers, researchers and Greek as a L2 material designers
Website: QualiRom ECML training and consultancy for member States
Alexandroupolis, Greece
Training workshop
online 09/10/2020 00:00:00 09/10/2020 00:00:00 0 7

1675 Quality education in Romani for Europe Experts: Ján Hero, David G Little
Local organizer: Susanne Volčanšek, The National Education Institution of Slovenia
Participants: consultants of the National Education Institution, members of the working group responsible for creating guidelines to promote the inclusion of Romani in the Slovene education system, Romani assistants, teachers, headmasters, voluntary workers of the Romani society
Working language: English
Website: QualiRom
Link for applications: PrijavaRomskiJezik ECML training and consultancy for member States
Venue: Ljubljana, Slovenia 07/03/2019 00:00:00 08/03/2019 00:00:00 0 7

1179 Introducing the Curriculum Framework for Romani Experts: David Little, Ireland; Helena Sadílková, Czech Republic, Ján Hero, Slovak Republic
Local organiser: Mária Prékop, Director of Department of National Minority Education, Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport in the Slovak Republic
Participants: Roma language teachers and teacher trainers, directors of schools, curriculum developers, NGOs representatives, universities´ representatives, policy makers - Ministry representatives
Working languages: English and Slovak
Website: QualiRom ECML training and consultancy for member States
Venue: Hotel Matyšák, Bratislava, Slovak Republic 10/04/2018 00:00:00 11/04/2018 00:00:00 0 7

761 Introducing the Curriculum Framework for Romani Experts: David Little, Ireland; Jan Hero, Slovak Republic
Local organiser: Aleksandra Begović, Philological Faculty of the University of Belgrade
Participants: Curriculum developers, teacher educators, teachers of Romani and/or Roma children
Project site: //www.ecml.at/TrainingConsultancy/QualiRom/tabid/1693/language/en-GB/Default.aspx ECML training and consultancy for member states
Venue: Belgrade, Serbia 14/09/2017 00:00:00 15/09/2017 00:00:00 0 7

775 Ad hoc Committee of Experts on Roma and Traveller Issues (CAHROM) Organisation: organised for CAHROM by:
Austrian Federal Chancellery / Minority Promotion (AT)
European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML)
European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML)
Plurilingualism Research Unit at the University of Graz (AT)
ECML expert: David Little, Ireland
Participants from:
Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland
Website: http://www.coe.int/de/web/portal/cahrom
Thematic group meeting: Protection, preservation and teaching of languages spoken by Roma, Sinti and Yeniche communities
Hosted event at the ECML premises
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
29/03/2017 00:00:00 31/03/2017 00:00:00 0 7

644 Quality education in Romani for Europe Coordinator: David Little, Ireland
Participants: local organisers of events scheduled to take place in Croatia and Serbia
Working language: English
Website: link ECML training and consultancy for member States
Network meeting
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria 08/03/2017 00:00:00 08/03/2017 00:00:00 0 7

640 Quality education in Romani for Europe” ECML training and consultancy for member States Coordinator: David Little, Ireland
Working language: English
Website: link Preparatory meeting of the network meeting
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria 07/03/2017 00:00:00 07/03/2017 00:00:00 0 7

485 Quality education in Romani for Europe ECML experts: Barbara Schrammel-Leber, Austria, Jelena Filipović, Serbia
Participants: teacher trainers, teachers, student teachers
Working languages: German and English ECML training and consultancy for member States in the framework of
International Week of the University College of Teacher Training
Venue: PH Steiermark Graz, Austria 12/05/2016 00:00:00 12/05/2016 00:00:00 0 7

338 ECML training and consultancy for member States - “Enhancing Romani language education in schools in Europe" (QualiRom)

Experts: Jelena Filipović, Serbia; Barbara Schrammel-Leber, Austria
Local organisers: Samanta Baranja, Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of Slovenia
Working language: English
Participants: Romani assistants and their mentors in schools; providers of learning support in Romani settlements; educators in preschools and schools working with Romani children; Representatives of Romani NGOs, who are committed to the preservation and dissemination of the Romani language (for example Romani students from Roma Academic Club); representatives of Centre for School and Outdoor Education, Educational Research Institute, The National Education Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of the Interior
Website

Information from the ECML experts
The training activity was an opportunity for the participants to gain knowledge with respect to the structure of Romani, the QUALIROM project, the Curriculum Framework for Romani and the ELPs for Romani teaching and learning, the QUALIROM teaching materials as well as models of plurilingual education based on collaborative learning and teaching, suited to satisfy the needs of minority communities. Romani teachers and assistants were presented with basic information about the way they can become actively engaged in improving language education policies in their country. Furthermore, throughout the training activity the participants had the opportunity to actively reflect on prevailing language ideologies (on Slovenian as the majority language and on Romani as one of the minority languages in Slovenia) in their respective Romani communities as well as in the Slovenian schools they work at. Workshops on Romani dialectology, language education policy as individual and social engagement, and on possibilities to apply the CFR, the ELPs for Romani and the QUALIROM materials in their local context provided an excellent context for a constructive exchange of ideas, experiences, concerns and examples of good practice. Finally, the event helped the participants to perceive the need to strengthen the community of practice of Romani assistants and Romani teachers in order for the improvements made on a local level to be recognised nationally and applied in formalised educational context.

Information from the local organiser
In the framework of the training workshop “Romani as a European minority language”, the participants gained knowledge of the Romani language as a European minority language (history and structure of language, sociolinguistics, and dialectology), features of the Romani dialects in Slovenia and various ways of implementation of the Romani language in the educational system. Special attention was devoted to the presentation of the objectives and results of the QualiRom project, raising awareness on status and importance of the Romani language and the exchange of experiences and challenges regarding the implementation of the Romani language in the educational process. The training workshop is especially useful for educational professionals working with Romani children and their parents. At the training workshop, the participants have the opportunity to get acquainted with the use of QualiRom didactic materials, which were developed with the aim of teaching and learning Romani. In the field of implementation of the Romani language in the education, we are facing a lack of well-trained teachers and quality didactic materials. Therefore, this training workshop is an important step forward, this way the Romani language shall be treated as an advantage in education, not as an obstacle.

V okviru usposabljanja »Romski jezik kot evropski manjšinski jezik« so udeleženci pridobili znanje o romskem jeziku kot evropskem manjšinskem jeziku (zgodovina in struktura jezika, sociolingvistika, dialektologija), značilnostih romskih dialektov v Sloveniji in različnih načinih implementacije romskega jezika v vzgojno-izobraževalni sistem. Posebna pozornost je bila posvečena predstavitvi ciljev in rezultatov projekta QualiRom, ozaveščanju o statusu in pomenu romskega jezika ter izmenjavi izkušenj in izzivov na področju vključevanja romskega jezika v vzgojno-izobraževalni proces. Usposabljanje je še posebej koristno za strokovne delavce v vzgoji in izobraževanju, ki se pri svojem delu srečujejo z romskimi otroki in njihovimi starši. Na usposabljanju imajo udeleženci namreč možnost seznaniti se z uporabo didaktičnih pripomočkov, ki so v sklopu projekta QualiRom bili razviti z namenom poučevanja in učenja romščine. Na področju vključevanja romskega jezika v vzgojno-učni proces se srečujemo s pomanjkanjem dobro usposobljenih učiteljev ter kakovostnih didaktičnih pripomočkov. To usposabljanje zato predstavlja pomemben korak naprej, da se romski jezik v vzgoji in izobraževanju začne obravnavati kot prednost, in ne ovira. Venue: Ministry of Education, Science and Sport, Ljubljana, Slovenia 06/07/2015 00:00:00 07/07/2015 00:00:00 0 7