Romania

Rue de Science, 14b, Brussels, Belgium

Description: Roma Entrepreneurship Development Initiative is an ecosystem builder focusing on developing tools to increase vulnerable communities’ economic empowerment.

 

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Str. Radu Voda Nr. 14, Bl. 759, Sc. A, Ap. 14, Iasi, Romania

Description: By definition, RomaJust was born as a solution for the professional development of young Roma law graduates in Romania and Europe. We take great interest in their profssional access and success, in facilitating their development. We believe they can create and consolidate a generation of attorneys that will support and defend the rights of Roma law graduates, and European citizens alike. We also believe that this hub will further fight against discrimination and civic liberty.

 

Serbia

Republika Srbija, Beograd, Palilula, Padinska Skela 9

Description: The mission of REDI Serbia is to economically empower Roma communities by promoting existing entrepreneurs and their businesses using business development services, coaching and access to finance.
To achieve this mission and vision, REDI Serbia is outreaching to Roma communities and helping them to develop and grow their communities from within, support them to connect across borders and voice out their interests.

Luxembourg

REDI Economic Development

8-10 Avenue de la Gare, L-1610 Luxembourg

Description: The Roma are the largest minority in Europe and they suffer from financial exclusion. Our mission is to facilitate access to funding for Roma entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs active in Roma communities, by:
a) Improving the financial education of the Roma
b) Reducing the information asymmetries existent between
financial intermediaries and the Roma
c) Improving the perceived risk profile of the Roma

Germany

ERIAC

ERIAC eV, Reinhardtstrasse 41-43, Berlin 10117, Germany

Description: ERIAC has a unique and single mandate as the transnational, European-level organization for the recognition of Roma arts and culture. The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture e.V. (ERIAC) is a joint initiative of the Council of Europe, the Open Society Foundations, and the Roma Leaders’ initiative – the Alliance for the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture. ERIAC is an association registered under German law on 07 June 2017, in Berlin, Germany. ERIAC exists to increase the self-esteem of Roma and to decrease negative prejudice of the majorit.

Belgium

REDI INTERNATIONAL

Rue de Science, 14b, Brussels, Belgium

Description: Roma Entrepreneurship Development Initiative is an ecosystem builder focusing on developing tools to increase vulnerable communities’ economic empowerment.

Greece/Cyprus

INSTITUTE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT LTD

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Description: Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (iED) is a Greek non-profit, civil society organisation committed to the promotion of innovation and the enhancement of the entrepreneurial spirit. The purposes of our organization are to provide humanistic and developmental assistance to vulnerable populations and groups with actions that contribute towards the financial and social development, particularly in the sectors of sustainable development, health, education, basic social infrastructures, financial and social growth, as well as to the strengthening and promoting human rights and democratic respect. To achieve our goals, we have adopted a human-first approach and we cooperate with social, academic and business partners from across Greece, EU & beyond.

Czech Republic

Romani HUB

Mikulovska 1, Brno 628 00, Czech Republic

Description: Romani Hub is an organization composed of experts that has long been dedicated to these key priorities – combating antigypsyism, promoting changes in education, and the economic and socio-legal status of the Romani minority. In recent years, we have been part of 2 important projects to support Roma entrepreneurs in the Czech Republic. In cooperation with REDI, we have participated in mapping the needs and networking of Roma entrepreneurs. Furthermore, as part of a European capacity building project, we have provided roundtables with Roma entrepreneurs, leading investors and public administration representatives. Based on our professional and community work in the field, we have developed good relationships with successful Romani entrepreneurs. In the field of education, we support Roma youth in soft skills, communication, presentation skills and business plan development. We are convinced that promoting economic independence in the Roma community is a path to visible change.

Sweden

Trajosko Drom

Albania


IRCA

St. Myslysm Shyri-S.Pitarka 24/b, 1001 Tirana, Albania

Description: IRCA is established on July 1, 2011 and is very much influenced by services provided at advocacy bodies such as the Italian Institute of Culture in Albania, British Council, Peace Corps Volunteers as well as the career advice, research and documentation centers, functioning within universities in Europe and North America, with most of which IRCA initiators have had their own experiences.

Spain


RROMANIPE´S

Carrer d ́Igualada nº 10

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Description: N/A

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Fundación Plan B Educación Social

7623 Pecs Szabadsag ut 19.Hungary

Description: Fundación Plan B Educación Social is a Spanish non-profit private foundation, formally organised, and with the capacity for institutional self-control. Our mission is to create social change to improve community life, especially the lives of children and youth, by giving them a chance for personal, social and educational growth.

We achieve this by setting clear goals that we use as a guide to mark the path of the foundation’s work:

-Develop a transformative participation

-Research, intervene, and integrally promote education as a tool for change.

-Empower the community as a whole, promote high quality democracy, and develop fields that affect us all, such as the environment or social economy.

Bulgaria


REDI Bulgaria

 

Rue de Science, 14b, Brussels, Belgium

Description: Roma Entrepreneurship Development Initiative is an ecosystem builder focusing on developing tools to increase vulnerable communities’ economic empowerment.

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Roma-Lom Foundation

Lom-3600, Neofit Bozveli 4, Bulgaria

Description: The goal is to stimulate the empowerment process and the social emancipation of the Roma communities in Bulgaria. Roma-Lom Foundation perceives its role as an active agent of change with:

  • Stimulation of initiative citizen groups
  • Development and approbation of practices and lobbying for successful practices application
  • Stimulation of the ethnic-cultural dialogue for overcoming prejudices
  • Mobilizing the internal potential of the community and attraction of partners on campaigns concerning the Roma community
Croatia

ROMSKA ORGANIZACIJA MLADIH HRVATSKE

Savska 24, 35000 Slavonski Brod

Description: Opened in 2014 as a regional Roma Youth Organization. In 2019 we changed name and started to work on national level. Our mission is to ensure a platform for young Roma for working in civil society. Empower them to define their challenges by themselves and create solutions for them. And to influence on Policies for youth and Roma in Croatia.

Slovakia

REDI Slovakia

Rue de Science, 14b, Brussels, Belgium

Description: Roma Entrepreneurship Development Initiative is an ecosystem builder focusing on developing tools to increase vulnerable communities’ economic empowerment.

Austria

Umweltdachverband

Dresder Straße 20/7.OG, 1200 Wien

Description: The umbrella environmental association represents the common environmental and nature conservation concerns of its member organizations and other actors. The diversity of interests of its autonomous members helps the environmental umbrella organization to find solid and well-founded positions. This makes it a central institutional player in the field of environmental, nature and alpine protection and thus makes a contribution to securing a sustainable future.

The core of the work is:

  • the dialogue with relevant stakeholders;
  • bringing the requirements of nature and environmental protection into socio-political discussions;
  • the respect and understanding of the diverse core concerns of its members;
  • Continuity and objectivity as well as a focus on impact-oriented action in terms of nature and environmental protection;
  • the principles of education for sustainable development.
Hungary

Amrita

 

7623 Pecs Szabadsag ut 19.Hungary

Description: The Amrita is a Non Profit Roma youth organization in Pecs, south of Hungary, created in 1994 by Roma and non-Roma with the aim of promoting inclusion and integration of Roma population in each segment. Amrita is a well-known, very good brand name among the Hungarian Roma organizations, the largest Roma student network in the country, abundantly sponsored by the EU. Amrita Association has student members and experts. Amrita spread in the country in the last 20 years, it’s operating now in South and North-East Hungary.