Romania has at present the most developed system of mediation in Roma communities, with several hundred school mediators and healthcare mediators employed in different types of public institutions in all counties. The Romanian experience in this field has been the basis of the endeavors carried out in the last ten years in this field by the Council of Europe and has also been exploited within the VET4ROMA project through the elaboration, by the specialists of our organizations, of professional training modules for mediators, which have been used within several courses organized in Belgium, Italy, Serbia and Spain.
Between the 19th and 22nd of June 2015, the Intercultural Institute Timisoara and the Educational Assistance and Resources Centre “Speranta”, with the support of the Ministry of Education and Scientific Research, organize a pilot training course for a group of school mediators in order to test a training and certification methodology regarding school mediators’ competences, in line with the national legal provisions in the field and the recommendation of the Council of Europe regarding mediation in Roma communities. The course is developed within the VET4ROMA project, co-financed by the European Commission.
Two organizations in Timisoara, the Intercultural Institute and the Educational Assistance and Resources Centre “Speranta” collaborate with the civic Association “Radovi U Toku” in Novi Sad as partners within a European project focused on the training and certification of mediators working in Roma communities.
110 secondary schools enrolled for the contest, where the Banat Lyceum (Liceul Bănăţean) operating in the Otelu Rosu obtained the fifth place in the new call for national competition published for winning the title of European schools.
The H4 - HunOR Brussels Representation Office has started its operation officially, representing research and development and local government projects among others – informs the MTI.
The Conference of Presidents has decided in Strasbourg that the European Parliament would suspend cooperation with the Council concerning five dossiers, until a satisfactory solution is born concerning the management of the Schengen zone.
Tomislav Nikolic, the new president of Serbia, Herman Van Rompuy, president of the council of the heads of state and government of EU Member States and José Manuel Durao Barroso, the first man of the European Commission took stands in favour of continuing the European integration of the country in Brussels on Thursday.
The project meeting entitled “From local traditional forms of work to European labour market” lasts until Saturday at the Diaconovici-Tietz Vocational Secondary School of Reşiţa. The event is jointly organised with the Reinhard-Mohn Skilled.
Iosif Matula, a MEP from Arad was also a member of the football team selected from the Romanian MEPs at the football tournament organised on the course established in front of the European Parliament.
The Bucharest experts of the Delegation of the European Union organised a conference entitled “Europe is our house” on the occasion of the International Children’s Day on 1 June in the Cernovici-Tietz Grammar School of Reşiţa for the pupils and the teachers of the school.
Megyeri Nomád Bodza, the 15 month old kuvasz (a Hungarian breed of sheepdog) bitch has become the junior world winner and then the species world winner at the Salzburg WorldDog Show.
Following the nice traditions of the past, 6000 Swabian originating from the Banat, the surroundings of Arad and the villages of Caras-Severin met in Ulm, Germany last weekend.
On the twentieth anniversary of the twin town relationship of Timişoara and Karlsruhe, the delegation of the German town lead by Heinz Fenrich Mayor payed a visit to Timişoara.
The Voluntary Centre of Reşiţa participated at the 23 general assembly of the European Voluntary Centre and at the symposium entitled “With voluntary service for society strengthening through innovation and inter-sectoral cooperation”.
