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RomaRoma’’s SMILEs SMILESupporting motivations to Intervene Supporting motivations to Intervene

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Agreement n° 2013-3753/001-001Agreement n° 2013-3753/001-001Project n° 543536-LLP-1-2013-1-IT-KA1-KA1MPRProject n° 543536-LLP-1-2013-1-IT-KA1-KA1MPR

o Experimentation of an innovative path for the reinforcement of the sense of social community in Roma children and in their parents through introducing a common teaching platform made up of a number of general rules of behaviour.

o Introduction of the prosocial parameters to involve the Roma communities directly in the process of the scholarship of the Roma children and creation of a prosocial scheme for the local Community into which the Roma people live.

o European Educating Community – definition of a Model that can be easily transferred to other local communities in other countries.

o Pedagogical scheme suitable for facing specific local situations and putting together different tendencies and exigencies expressed by different levels of the civil society.

Fight against an early school drop-out by Roma students

Reinforce the students’ positive perception of the diversity and establish shared prosocial teaching and learning rules for developing a pedagogical reference scheme, thus considering the specific issue of Roma inclusion through the reinforcement of the social competences of the Roma

Realizing and Experimenting the model of an Educating Community, defined as “Community of Concrete Answers” and verifying the efficacy in the field of the inclusion of Roma

Support the primary schools in their effort for involving Roma students, creating a welcoming learning environment for the Roma children and families and developing a sense of community through the foundation of a new spirit of Community feeling based on the concept of prosociality.

Increasing the sensibility about the drop out of Roma children

Creating a more suitable learning environment for Roma children (conceptual and physical)

Improving the sensibility about the health of the Roma communities

Reducing the reciprocal prejudices

Social added value: stimulating bridges between the educational environment and the rest of the community in the specific way of the inclusion of Roma children in the educative system.

Pedagogical added value: the approach is based on a participating model. List of principles shared by all the actors who are educators (formal, informal and no formal).

Operational added value: the “pedagogy of diversity” is not a result of a mere occasional project but can become itself part of the constitution of the educational system, being aware that the expected contribution given by the project could be the way to change a deep-seated cultural approach.

The SMILE Partnership

Centro Studi e Formazione Villa Montesca (Città di Castello, Italy) - Coordinator

Associazione Italiana Zingari Oggi (Italy)

Municipality of Koprivnica (Croatia)

The BHA (UK)

ADRA BULGARIA Foundation (Bulgaria)

European Roma Information Office (Belgium)

Contact detailsCentro Studi e Formazione Villa Montesca

www.montesca.it

Project Coordinator: Fabrizio Boldrini

fabrizio.boldrini@montesca.it

The SMILE Partnership

Centro Studi e Formazione Villa Montesca (Città di Castello, Italy) - Coordinator

Associazione Italiana Zingari Oggi (Italy)

Municipality of Koprivnica (Croatia)

The BHA (UK)

ADRA BULGARIA Foundation (Bulgaria)

European Roma Information Office (Belgium)

Contact detailsCentro Studi e Formazione Villa Montesca

www.montesca.it

Project Coordinator: Fabrizio Boldrini

fabrizio.boldrini@montesca.it