During the past weeks and months, new developments have taken place in Hungary within the ROMED2 process for Democratic Governance and Roma Community participation through mediation
On 18 January 2014, the ROMACT and the ROMED 2 Programmes was officially launched in Italy, during a conference to be held in Milan.
On 5 November, the ROMACT project, as well as the new phase of ROMED2, was officially launched in Slovakia, during a conference held in the City of Kosice. On the occasion of event the Slovakian authorities also presented the three years' action plan for the implementation of the Dosta! Campaign.
Following the launching event, which took place in Budapest on 4 October 2013, the first workshop of the ROMACT and ROMED2 programmes took place on Friday, 18 Oct 2013 in the same city.
The launch event was attended by Romanian and European officials the complete list of which can be found in the agenda of the event, and among which Mr Daniel Vasile, President of National Agency for Roma, and Mr Florin Manole, President of Local Elected Roma Association.
The ROMACT and ROMED2 and programmes were launched on Monday, 14 october 2013 in Albena, Bulgaria in the presence of Ms Zinaida Zlatanova, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Justice and Chair of the National Council for Cooperation on Ethnic and Integration Issues.
The new ROMACT and ROMED2 Programmes were launched in Hungary on Friday 4 October at a national conference attended by over 100 national and international players.
After two years of implementation in 22 countries and over 1000 mediators trained, the ROMED2 Programme is about to be launched. A new joint initiative of the Council of Europe and the European Commission, ROMACT will also be launched, with the aim of building the political commitment of local authorities and their capacity of policy development.
