"Whe nyo ur eadt hi ste xty ouk no whow itfe elsi fyo uc ann otr eadp rop er ly." (source of the German text: "Grundbildung in Europa: Projekte und Perspektiven", NA BIBB). According to UNESCO, an estimated number of 73 million adult Europeans are considered as functional illiterates. This is equal to 1/5 of the employable population aged 18 to 64 years. In the partner countries of the project this concerns totally 13.8 million adults. According to experts the share of functional illiterates among adult Roma there is 40 to 60 per cent. Comparibly high is the share among the 25 to 40 year old Roma. Thus, often functional illiteracy is the reason for the hindered access of Roma to education and employment. It also hinders the maintenance or increasing of their employability. Alphabetisation measures are mainly offered for the majority population and partially for migrants, but not particularly for Roma. This is necessary to consider their special needs in the improvement of their reading and writing skills. Existing offers lack co-ordination and interdisciplinary co-operation in the planning and implementation. Binding respectively uniform quality standards are completely missing. Therefore, - the elaboration of a Curriculum for raising the literacy grade of adult Roma - the modification of Quality Standards for according alphabetisation courses - the development of a Handbook for leaders of alphabetisation courses and - the designing and implementation of Co-ordination Concepts for alphabetisation measures are in the centre of our project. In an according training, adult education experts will be enabled to use them for the first time already within the test phase of the project. "RomABC goes Western Balkan" will be realised by partners from Serbia, North Macedonia, Germany and Hungary and aims particularly at the reduction of the number of functional illiterates among adult Roma, the improvement of their employability and the increasing of their participation in adult education measures. With that, the project contributes in the long run concretely to the increasing of the employment rate and the reduction of the number of Roma concerned by poverty and social exclusion.
„RomABC goes Western Balkan!“ contributed in achieving to - the reduction of the number of functional illiterates among adult Roma in Serbia and North Macedonia - increasing their employability - raising the share of adult Roma in adult education - improving their social integration - increasing the competences of adult educators (technically, methodically, personally and socially, multi-culturally) in the implementation of alphabetization measures for adult Roma - improving the interdisciplinary co-operation in the field of alphabetization In addition to all this, “RomABC goes Western Balkan” contributed to the support and assistance to the school “ST Kliment Ohridski” through examples of good practice, horizontal cooperation through which we advise them and help them to accomplish working with adult students, especially members of the Roma minority, and therefore a protocol on cooperation was signed between our two schools, because they are still in the process of opening adult education schools and preparation of the program which would enable them to start to work in legal frames of the country. Protocol on cooperation and exchange of good practice was signed was also signed with Sumanal association since they have contact and close cooperation with vast number of adult Roma who did not finish primary school and there is a strong need for cross-sectoral cooperation with state institutions in this filed in order to help adult Roma to become functionally literate. In support to all this the project contributes concretely to the implementation of the Serbian and North Macedonian Strategies for the social inclusion of Roma.
According to UNESCO, an estimated number of 73 million adult Europeans are considered as functional illiterates. This is equal to 1/5 of the employable population aged 18 to 64 years. In the partner countries of the project this concerns totally 13.8 million adults. According to experts the share of functional illiterates among adult Roma there is 40 to 60 per cent. Comparably high is the share among the 25 to 40 year old Roma. Thus, often functional illiteracy is the reason for the hindered access of Roma to education and employment. It also hinders the maintenance or increasing of their employability. Alphabetization measures are mainly offered for the majority population and partially for migrants, but not particularly for Roma. This is necessary to consider their special needs in the improvement of their reading and writing skills. Existing offers lack co-ordination and interdisciplinary co-operation in the planning and implementation. Binding respectively uniform quality standards are completely missing. Therefore, - the elaboration of a Curriculum for raising the literacy grade of adult Roma - the modification of Quality Standards for according alphabetization courses - the development of a Handbook for leaders of alphabetization courses and - the designing and implementation of Co-ordination Concepts for alphabetization measures are in the center of our project. In an according training, adult education experts are enabled to use them for the first time already within the test phase of the project. "RomABC goes Western Balkan" is realized by partners from Serbia, North Macedonia, Germany and Hungary and aims particularly at the reduction of the number of functional illiterates among adult Roma, the improvement of their employability and the increasing of their participation in adult education measures. With that, the project contributes in the long run concretely to the increasing of the employment rate and the reduction of the number of Roma concerned by poverty and social exclusion. - the reduction of the number of functional illiterates among adult Roma in Serbia and North Macedonia - increasing their employability - raising the share of adult Roma in adult education - improving their social integration - increasing the competences of adult educators (technically, methodically, personally and socially, (multi-culturally) in the implementation of alphabetization measures for adult Roma - improving the interdisciplinary co-operation in the field of alphabetization. Thus, the project contributes concretely to the implementation of the Serbian and Macedonian Strategies for the social inclusion of Roma.