Through its training, informing, counseling, mediation, and placement activities focused on qualification and re-qualification programs and available jobs (these activities take place in the Western region) the project invests in human capital represented by Roma women and young persons and aims at increasing their ratio of occupation. Psychological counseling (in the same region) contributes to the consolidation of peoples’ motivation for participation in education and training but also to the cultivation of self-esteem and the better knowledge of their own abilities. Identifying and acknowledging gender and age-based differences within the Roma communities – for supporting their search for employment – the occupational councilors will elaborate individual action plans for people like women returned from abroad, women who would like to return to an occupation after a long maternity leave, skilled women without job, or women and young people who face the prospect of long-term unemployment. Being an integrated project we will engage in informative and formative activities (these activities will take place on national and multi-regional levels). These activities aim at raising sensitiveness regarding the principle of equal opportunities and non-discrimination, but also at ameliorating or even erasing prejudices and discriminatory practices from the part of employers, or from the part of the staff in education or public administration, media representation of Roma in general, and of Roma women in special. Mediating (between training providers and employers on the one hand and Roma people on the other) and people’s placement into professional training programs through grants and subsidies will contribute to the creation of an inclusive and cohesive society. Accompanying activities (dedicated to childcare and education for pre-school children and pupils) as affirmative action will give mothers a chance to reconcile family and working lives. The latter activities will be implemented on a regional scale. However, as a model for action can be useful in other regions from Romania or even trans-nationally.

The added value of the project consists in its innovative actions that seek to fight against discrimination with new methods such as: simultaneously acting on life conditions and mentalities of Roma women and young people as well as on discriminatory practices and attitudes of employers and local administration, school, mass media and civil society staff; identification and treatment of multiple and intersectional discrimination; organizing training sessions provided for mixed working groups in several localities (groups that consists of Roma women and young persons, people from mass media, local administration, schools and NGOs that manage programs on Roma); elaborating an action plan built on the research, studies and analyses of gendered differences of (paid and unpaid) work; public support from the part of local authorities for the effort of eliminating discrimination and creating equal opportunities for disadvantaged and vulnerable groups; national and transnational dissemination of results in the form of publications, informative materials, public debates and conferences seeking to inform potential partners not involved in this project, but might be interested in its results or in the project itself as a good practice; exchanging best practice models with our transnational partner; implementing results and the best practice model in the targeted regions, including rural areas, and targeting other regions too; obtaining accreditation for professional training in TIC and offering certificates to persons attending the courses, capacitating them to use advanced technology also for supporting other persons seeking employment; organizing an international conference on the integration of Roma in the labor market and in special of Roma women; publishing an international journal of European Roma women (“NEVI SARA KALI. Roma Women’s Journal. Revista Femeilor Rome. Romane Ӡuvleanqe Ӡurnalo”), including articles in English, Romanian, and Romani.