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September 2016 20_NEWSLETTER September: The month of concluding the preparatory phase of the housing component of the Pata-Cluj project

At the end of September was launched the set of housing criteria of the Pata-Cluj project

On September 22nd the the Pata-Cluj team launched its accession system to the social houses at a meeting with the social stakeholders interested in this component.

Following a week of informing the communities in Pata Rât about the eligibility and accession criteria, these were presented Thursday, at the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work to the social stakeholders involved in the process: representatives of public institutions and active NGOs in Pata Rât. During the meeting the following topics were discussed: the housing concept of the project, the participatory process for designing the accession system for social housing, the eligibility criteria and the accession criteria to the apartments, and the phases of the allocation procedure of the social apartments within the Pata-Cluj project. 43 participants attended the meeting; most of them participated at the consultations regarding the Pata-Cluj social housing project.

The implementation of the Pata-Cluj housing component will start on October 3rd, when a helpdesk will be opened and functional until November 18th, and where inhabitants of Pata Rât can ask for information about the necessary documents for the application file for housing. The community facilitators, Alex ,Vlad, and Anna, will provide information and general guidance related to the working hours of the institutions which issue various documents needed for the application file, to the forms that need to be completed and other information related to the housing process and timetable. At the Green House center in Pata Rât, where this office will function, the registration office for the applications will be set up as well. The team registering the files will be an external team, including lawyers, who will help people write official documents. This team will later provide individual guidance for the applicant families, considering their specific situations and conditions.

Moreover, for those interested, a series of thematic group meetings on family issues will be organized by our case managers and Mălina, our colleague working within the employment component. The aim of these meetings is to discuss various aspects of being a parent, the needs of children and parents. There will also take place a series of meetings centered on employment and instruments of family resource management. The helpdesk, the registration office and the thematic meetings will be held simultaneously, all along the period of submitting the files for social housing.

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Since the number of social apartments offered within our project represents only approximately 10% of the total number of needed dwellings to ensure decent housing conditions and for the spatial desegregation of the Pata Rât communities, we need to select those families who would benefit from the Pata-Cluj social apartments. Thus, together with the interested social stakeholders and the members of the community, we worked out a social housing accession system which includes the following: a set of criteria for accessing the social apartments, the instruments for the assessing the needs and the resources of the families applying for social housing within the Pata-Cluj project. This assessment will serve as the basis of an intervention plan. The allocation of the social houses is part of this plan, and has to be coupled with other measures in other main areas like health, education and employment. The grounding perspective of the assessment is children‟s rights in the sense that the resources and needs of the family will be examined in the context of raising and caring for the child. The final selection results will be announced on March 24th 2017. The entire timetable of the allocation procedure and the phases of the selection are available in the informational brochure published here.

The elaboration of the social housing accession system implied a participatory process.

On one hand, a series of consultations were held in the targeted communities, and on the other we held six meetings with social stakeholders who manifested their interest in the housing component, and with whom we discussed the eligibility criteria for the social apartments to be built and purchased through the project. Grounded on these consultations with the community and with the social stakeholders, we finalized the set of the eligibility and accession system, a process coordinated by researchers of the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, within the BabeşBolyai University. This way the Pata-Cluj project wishes to contribute to those efforts whose objective is the social inclusion of the most deprived communities by providing decent housing conditions, as part of integrated social inclusion measures.

Thus, within the framework of this component, participatory social

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September 2016 20_NEWSLETTER housing will be piloted, and 32 social apartments will be built and purchased outside Pata Rât (in Cluj-Napoca and Apahida), exclusively dedicated to inhabitants of this area. You can find more information about the local and national context of piloting the project, and also about the participatory process of elaborating the criteria and the allocation system of social apartments by consulting the attached material.

Events and actions with and for the community Autumn began with the fifth urban furniture design and construction session in Pata Rât On Wednesday, September 7th the fifth session of urban furniture design and construction took place in Pata Rât. The Big Construction, being at its second edition this year, and at its 5th edition in total, aimed to rearrange the courtyard of the Mobile Unit, to repair the existing furniture and to complete it with new benches and tables in order to prepare the area for the beginning of the school year. Thus, while during four editions we learned how to forge various urban furniture objects from pallets: sofas and tables, bower, roof for a well, cinema benches and during this last session we re-arranged the space, and refurbished the objects at the Mobile Unit. We met in the morning with approximately 10 adults and 20 children, and we‟ve been working together for 3 hours, following a short instruction session on work safety. The work itself consisted in cleaning the old tables and the sofas and preparing them for re-painting, painting and repainting of all the furniture objects in vivid colors, repairing of the old benches, assembling 5 new benches and 2 new tables and the repair of the bower. The most preferred activity for children was painting and embellishing the tables and benches, as they spontaneously and willingly started to enrich the painted objects with various models, colors and shapes. The construction work remained the task of the colleagues from the education team and the facilitators. The others were engaged in organizing and maintaining the flow of tasks in the working area and in the repairing the old furniture. At the end we counted 17 pieces of completed and renewed furniture, and 30 sunlit, more cheerful and energetic people.

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volunteers, friends of the project, members of the Cluj community and of Pata Rât communities got to know each other better and worked together.

The education team prepared children for their first day of school At the beginning of September, the education team and the team of case managers started to inform families regarding the preparations they have to make for the beginning of the school year. Thus, they mobilized and accompanied 16 school-children, some of them being in the zero grade, others older, to the Public Health Directorate in order to have the medical analyses needed for the beginning of the school year. On September 12th the education team accompanied children to the schools they are attending for the opening festivity of the school year. For the smaller children this experience was unique and intimidating therefore some of the colleagues spent the first days of school with them in classes. For older children, who have already had this experience, meeting their classmates and teacher was a source of joy.

In mid-September we informed the communities from Pata Rât on the accession criteria for social housing within the Pata-Cluj project Starting September 14th, the Pata-Cluj team begun to inform the members of the Pata Rât communities regarding the eligibility and accession criteria for accessing the social apartments provided within the PataCluj project. The information campaign referred to the criteria, but also to the timetable and the phases of evaluation process, and the services provided within the housing project. Thus, the first door-to-door information campaign begun on September 14th in the Coastei community, and between September 15th and 20th the Dallas and Cantonului communities were informed.

The aim of these campaigns was to prepare the communities for the official launching events of the social housing accession system, which took place on September 22nd and 23rd.

Thus, on September 22nd we held a meeting where we presented these criteria to local institutions in detail. On September 23rd we made public the complete material regarding the scoring, the requested documents (annexes), useful information regarding the institutions etc., and we updated the community with these pieces of information. On this occasion the members of the community were informed about existence and the aim Helpdesk, installed in

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September 2016 20_NEWSLETTER the community starting October 3rd where they can ask for information and support Starting the same date, they can submit their application files at the Registration Office. In the meanwhile the Pata-Cluj team will ensure the support for those interested in the Pata-Cluj social housing project through the activity of the Helpdesk and of the Support Groups. You can find more information about these services in the information material on the housing component by accessing this link.

End of year activities with participants enrolled in the Second Chance educational program On September 9th a group of 5 school-aged children attending the Second Chance educational program provided within the project attended an event held in the Armătura Park. At the fair organized within the Ecotraditions festival, children explored the booths exhibiting traditional home made products, and tasted from the offered products. Then they played the drums, layed in hammocks and chatted with other participants at the event. This type of extracurricular activities (excursions, participation at events and workshops) were carried out during the summer with school-aged children attending the Second Chance program as a non-formal learning instrument and spending leisure time activity.

At the end of September, adults from the high school group of the program passed their exams at the headquarters of the Christiana School. In order to assist the adults to successfully conclude the first cycle of high school studies, the education team offered support with the following: field informing sessions on the program of the exams, transportation from the community to the Christiana School and back. All along the exams, the team represented the connection between professors and adults attending the high school group. After exams, 4 adults could conclude the first level of the high school cycle. The courses within the Second Chance educational program will be restarted for the two groups (children and adults) starting October.

The Cinemobile film screenings organized in Pata Rât moved to the Cantonului street Tuesday, September 29th, film and cartoon screenings organized with the help of the Cinemobile moved to the Cantonului street. Thus, following a series of open-air film screenings at the Mobile Unit, within the area especially arranged for this activity during the fourth edition of the Big Construction, the Cinemobile moved to the Cantonului area, in a closed space. The cartoons and films were screened on a wall of a prayer house, put to our disposal with Biroul MecanismulFinanciar Str Joseph II 12-16 (adresa poștală) Bd du Régent 47-48 (adresa fizică) B-1000 Bruxelles www.norwaygrants.org

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generosity by the priest of the community. The children from the Cantonului community enjoyed the cartoons and the silent comedies made at the beginning of cinematography for approximately 100 minutes. Out of the approximately 40 children aged between 3 and 13 years, some attended the screening held at the Mobile Unit. They were still well-behaved and watched the cartoons with the others. Not all children were patient though, but each of them was enthusiastic. A few parents were also around, some inside, with their children, others waiting outside. Despite the fact that a few children were called home during the screening to do their homework, the room remained full, the children were cramped so that as many could get in as possible. A few of them helped us mounting, disassembling and transporting the equipment to the car. Children expressed their wish to participate again to such events, as soon and as frequently as possible. Since all along the two months of screenings children kept on asking us how long the screenings would last, we will find a way so that the last two screenings in October would reach again as many of them as possible, from all the four communities.

Starting October 2016 the program and the activities of the teams doing field work in Pata Rât, with the exception of the education team, will change in order to meet the need for support of the community with completing the applications for the Pata-Cluj social housing.

Given the fact that the work program in the community is made by the Pata-Cluj team in a way to meet the needs and the program of the members of the Pata Rât communities, this program may suffer modifications during October. Once we will have a fixed program, we will inform again all stakeholders on the occurred changes.

HelpDesk: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 12 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Community facilitators and Anna offer support for obtaining the needed documents for the housing application.

Registration Desk: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 12 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Friday 10 a.m. – 12 a.m.

External consultants register the applications and offer individual counseling for families to obtain the maximum score for social housing.

Employment Group: Wednesday 9 a.m. – 11 a.m.

The employment team offers counseling within group discussion on employment and management of resources.

Parenting Group: Tuesday 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.

Case managers offer counseling within group discussions on parents and children needs.

Medical consultations: Tuesday 12 a.m. – 2p.m.

Thursday 12 a.m. – 2 p.m.

The medical team offers support in evaluating the general health condition and offers emergency health services.

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Past events The intervention team of the Pata-Cluj project attended a training on the organization of the support groups to be held starting October At the beginning of September, Ágnes Dávid Kacsó, lecturer at the Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, delivered a training session for the project team. The aim of the four days of training was to prepare part of the intervention team to hold the two support groups: a parenting group and a group on employment and resource management issues. The two groups will be organized in Pata Rât, and will be held once the registration period of the Pata-Cluj social housing begins. The training included a theoretical presentation of the child development phases referred to positive disciplining methods, to parent-child communication, children and parents‟ specific needs, and included practical exercises of psycho-social stimulation of the child at different ages. Besides these, there were also highlighted a few theoretical elements regarding group dynamics like methods of organizing a group and possible related difficulties.

Networking The Pata-Cluj team had a work visit with representatives of the Norwegian Embassy in Romania On Tuesday, September 27th the Pata-Cluj team welcomed the visit of a delegation of the Norwegian Embassy in Romania: Mr. Kåre Eltervåg, the new counsellor of the Norwegian Embassy in Romania, who is engaged in SEE grants and Ms. Mariana Nițelea, EEA and Norway Grants assistant.

During the first part of the visit, the delegation was received in the Glass Hall of the Municipality of Cluj-Napoca by the Pata-Cluj

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project team, where, in a relaxed atmosphere, the project and its distinct components were presented. Thus, after the conceptual framework of the project and the history of Pata Rât were overviewed, the teams of education, community facilitation, case management, identity documents and employment, and our partners from the AltArt Foundation, the Community Association of Roma from Coastei and Habitat for Humanity Cluj briefly presented their activity, illustrating their work with examples of successes and difficulties, including photos and short video documenting them. Given the fact that housing is the component towards which most of the project resources are channeled, this component received special time and attention. Our colleagues responsible for the housing component described in detail the work carried out until now and the process through which the 32 apartments will be allocated within the project. In the second part of the visit, a small project team accompanied the Embassy representatives to a short field visit to Pata Rât, where they presented the communities with their specificities and the work we have done in these until now.

Our guests were impressed by our work, and expressed their opinion and belief that this work targeting the desegregation and social inclusion of the Pata Rât communities deserves to be continued. The visit meant the confirmation of our work and of the already achieved results. Nevertheless, the meeting was a good opportunity to enhance the relationship with the financing authority and to set up a framework for dialogue between the financing authority and the project promoter, but also to share experiences and a common vision regarding the approach to complex structural problems the post-communist societies are facing with.

Future events The members of the Clowns without Borders team came back to Cluj to hold performances for children and workshops for adults The members of the Clowns without Borders Sweden (Clowner utan Gränser Suedia) will come to Cluj on October 4th and 5th to carry out activities with children from Pata Rât, within their tour in Romania. Thus, on Tuesday, October 4th a first performance will take place at 11 o‟clock, at the Traian Dârjan School, and a workshop with adults, (young) workers with children and volunteers, starting from 5 pm at tranzit.ro. On Wednesday, October 5th, they will hold a show for children in Pata Rât and one for children at the Special School no 2, starting 2 pm. The cultural facilitators‟ team of the Pata-Cluj project will assist and facilitate the interaction with the Swedish group during their two days of stay in Cluj.

The workshop is open to the public depending on the available places, and is addressed to all the age categories and professionals who (institutional, nonformal etc.) work with children.

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September 2016 20_NEWSLETTER and laughter to children living in deprived environments. The Clowns Without Borders Sweden is part of the international initiative network Clowns Without Borders. They carry out activities with deprived or ill children, who suffered various crisis, catastrophes, or who are living in poverty, trying to make them smile and to keep them active and curious.

The Shelters theatre performance is played again within the Social Reactor MicroSeason The theatre performance Shelters (Refugii), staged by Petro Ionescu and Raul Coldea, a critical performance dealing with the impact of precarious housing conditions on people‟s lives, is again on the agenda this autumn, within the program of the Social Reactor Micro-Season, at the Reactor Space for Creation and Experiment. The four actors (Doru, George, Alina and Paul) bet on the play between detachment and implication, a play meant to produce critical discourse, to raise questions and initiate new discussions regarding precarious housing. Built on the methods of devised theatre, the performance aims at familiarizing the public with these issues through a presentation which generates empathy among the public. The play‟s opening was on May 6th, and the next performance will be on October 24th starting 8 pm, at the Reactor Space for Creation and Experiment. The Pata-Cluj team recommends this performance, and invites all those interested in topics like vulnerability and social invisibility, precarious housing and personal histories, which get us out of our comfort zone and teleports us beyond reality and stereotypes to attend it.

The production of Shelters was realized by the team of Reactor, space for creation and experiment, and was financed through the cultural thread of the Pata-Cluj project. It was realized within the open call for cultural manifestations and artistic intervention works, launched by the AltArt Foundation, in the framework of the Pata-Cluj project. Through the artistic works produced within this call we wish to encourage reflections upon issues related to the relationship between the communities in Pata Rât and Cluj-Napoca.

Pata-Cluj participates for the first time at the CIVI fair The CIVI Fair (Cluj Initiative for Volunteering and Involvement) is an opportunity created for all inhabitants of Cluj in order to get acquainted with the local NGOs and associations.

CIVI aims at being an interactive platform for presenting and informing about Cluj organizations, and for engaging civil society through volunteering. The CIVI Fair, organized by UN Biroul MecanismulFinanciar Str Joseph II 12-16 (adresa poștală) Bd du Régent 47-48 (adresa fizică) B-1000 Bruxelles www.norwaygrants.org

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Youth Association of Romania Cluj branch, will take place on October 19th and 20th at the Casino, Center for Urban Culture, Cluj.

We will attend the event in order to present to potential volunteers the activities carried out in Pata Rât during the last two years, and activities in which they could also get involved.

The employment team within the Pata-Cluj project will attend this autumn for the fourth time the Cluj Global Career Fair The Cluj Global Career Fair is a biannual event, where employers meet potential employees, NGOs with future volunteers and collaborators. On October 25th-26th, at this year‟s autumn edition, which would be the 21st edition, a team of the Pata-Cluj project will participate as well, for the fourth time. We will attend the event in order to present to potential volunteers our activities carried out in Pata Rât during the last two years, in which they could get involved as volunteers, and in order to accompany members of the Pata Rât communities to meetings with employers. At previous editions several people submitted their CVs directly at the employers‟ booths, and some of them were called for interviews following the participation at the fair.

The Job Fair (TdC) is the largest job events network in Romania and the Republic of Moldova, with over 100 job events in the cities of both countries. 2016 is an anniversary for the job fair, as it is at its 10th year of existence and activity. You can find more information on the job fair on the http://www.targuldecariere.ro/cluj-global/ website, and on the participation of the Pata-Cluj team at the fair on the project webpage, under the employment component section http://patacluj.ro/componentele-proiectului/ocupare/.

Announcements for the community Monthly photo session for identity documents and information about social services On the last Monday of each month, our colleague Roland is taking photos for identity documents for members of the Pata Rât community, during the working hours of the team offering support for the submission of files for identity documents. In September Roland and Mária, our colleague from the social services team took 8 ID card photos.

This was also the last session for taking ID photos.

During September, Mária and people from Pata Rât submitted 17

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September 2016 20_NEWSLETTER applications for renewing their ID cards, 1 application for a birth certificate duplicate, 4 applications for birth certificate sentence, 3 applications for state allowance and 1 file for social allowance. During the next period Mária will provide support and counseling for people who need identity documents in order to be able to submit an application for the Pata-Cluj social housing.

The relocation of the Mobile Unit has begun at the end of September At the end of September works targeting the relocation of the Mobile Unit in Pata Rât have started. The unit, which at present is located near the Green House, will be moved within the same plot, but nearer to the waste dump. In the meantime, the activities of the Pata-Cluj team were temporarily moved to the Green House, but we are trying to find a stable location until the Mobile Unit will be reassembled in its new place. The related activities will be resumed once the Mobile Unit will be connected again to utilities.

On September 30th was organized an informing session targeting families from Pata Rât needing school supplies offered through the Pata-Cluj project On the last day of September, the education team and Mălina informed the families from Pata Rât with regard to the school supplies their children would receive this year. This year we were late with the distribution of schoolbags due to the fact that these supplies were obtained as donations from companies in Cluj as a response to our fundraising campaign made by the employment team. Some of the school bags were sent later. The 152 school bags fully equipped by the employees of different companies will be distributed during the first week of September to children who did not receive school supplies from the Cluj-Napoca Municipality.

Pata-Cluj social inclusion calendar: October October 1st - International Day of Older Persons International Day of Older Persons is celebrated every year on October 1st. This years‟ theme of the international campaign of World Health Organization is “Take a Stand Against Ageism”. This year‟s theme challenges everyone to reflect on and eliminate the negative attitudes and age discrimination and highlights its negative effects on elder people.

October 2nd - National Roma Student Day This day marks the first distribution, in Romanian higher education, of 10 individual places for Roma candidates at the Social Work Department of University of Bucharest at the initiative of sociologists dr. Elena Zamfir and dr. Vasile Burtea. Each year the number of places increased, reaching, for example, in 2006, 420 different places in different universities countrywide.

(These pieces of information are gathered and edited by Ghe. Sarău in a Roma calendar (in Romanian Roma's vision) that has mainly an educational purpose. © Ghe. Sarău, 2006)

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October 3rd (first Monday of the month) - World Habitat Day (Cities without slums) The United Nations has designated the first Monday of October of every year as World Habitat Day. The purpose of World Habitat Day is to reflect on the state of our towns and cities, and on the basic right of all to adequate shelter. It is also intended to remind the world that we all have the power and the responsibility to shape the future of our cities and towns.

World Habitat Day was established in 1985 by the United Nations General Assembly through Resolution 40/202, and was first celebrated in 1986. World Habitat Day 2016 will be celebrated on 3 October 2016 under the theme Housing at the Centre. It will also mark the official beginning of Urban October month of celebrations, events and activities.

October 5th – World Teacher's Day World Teachers‟ Day held annually on 5 October is a UNESCO initiative, a day devoted to appreciating, assessing, and improving the educators of the world. The real point is to provide a time to look at and address issues pertaining to teachers. WTD is a natural extension of UNESCO's all year round work of promoting teachers, ensuring that this profession is "healthy". In 1994, UNESCO proclaimed 5 October World Teachers‟ Day, in celebration of the great step made for teachers in 1966 when a special intergovernmental conference convened by UNESCO in Paris in cooperation with the ILO adopted the ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers. In addition 5 October celebrates the adoption by the UNESCO General Conference in 1997 of the UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel.

October 8th © – National Roma Musician Day On October 8th 1923 was born the great violonist and conductor Ion Voicu. He died on February 24th 1997 in Bucharest. On this day we also celebrate other roma musicians: Mădălin Voicu (conductor), Johnny Răducanu (jazz player), Marius Mihalache (jazz and cymbals player), Marin Petrache Pechea (jazz player) etc.

(These pieces of information are gathered and edited by Ghe. Sarău in a Roma calendar (in Romanian Roma's vision) that has mainly an educational purpose. © Ghe. Sarău, 2006) October 9th - National Holocaust Day On this day we commemorate the Jewish, Roma and other victims of Holocaust in Romania. On this occasion we reflect on the role of the Romanian state in the Holocaust. 9th of October was chosen to mark this day because it represents the day when Romania started deporting Jews and Roma towards Transnistria in 1942.

October 10th - World Mental Health Day World Mental Health Day is a day dedicated to mental health, awareness and advocacy to reduce stigma, isolation and discrimination associated with mental health diseases.

Celebrated for the first time in 1992, this year‟s theme for the World Mental Health Day is „Dignity in Mental Health - Psychological & Mental Health First Aid for All‟. The aim is to allow people to stop hiding and start coexisting with the others at work, in the family and in their daily life.

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September 2016 20_NEWSLETTER October 15th – Global Handwashing Day The campaign was initiated to reduce childhood mortality rates related respiratory and diarrheal diseases by introducing simple behavioral changes, such as hand washing with soap. This simple, accessible action can, according to research, reduce the rate of mortality from these diseases by almost 25 and 50 per cent, respectively.

October 17th – International Day for the Eradication of Poverty Starting 17th October 1993 is marked yearly the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The initiative belongs to a non-formal French organization aimed to promote eradication of poverty. This day also marks the Trocadero gathering of 100.000 people in 1987, the place of signing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, to bring homage to the victims of extreme poverty, violence and famine. They declared poverty as a violation of human rights and promoting each person‟s right to a decent life and the need to work together to ensure the compliance with human rights. Thus, this day is a day of solidarity with the poor, including those who are absent or are afraid to participate.

October 18th – EU Anti-Traffic Day Since 2006 October 18th was declared the European Anti-Traffic Day and is observed in all EU member states. Because of the big number of victims and of vulnerabilities in Romania, more organizations got involved in a national campaign and focused on increasing awareness and on creating a common message to prevent this type of organized crime in our country.

October 20th - National Day of celebrating the Romani language department On October 20th 1992 started the first Romani class in Romani at university level, at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of University of Bucharest. It was pioneered and held by Gheorghe Sarău until 2000/2001. Starting the academic year of 1997/1998 at the same department, and by his efforts, he starts a new section B indiology (for hindi - romani). During the next academic year this got structured as a B specialization on language and literature. Starting 2005/2006 the department gets the statute of a A main department.

(These pieces of information are gathered and edited by Ghe. Sarău in a Roma calendar (in Romanian Roma's vision) that has mainly an educational purpose. © Ghe. Sarău, 2006)

The Pata-Cluj project, fully named Social interventions for the de-segregation and social inclusion of vulnerable groups in Cluj Metropolitan Area, including the disadvantaged Roma is implemented by the Intercommunity Development Association, Cluj Metropolitan Area, in partnership with the Community Association of Roma from Coastei, Habitat for Humanity Cluj and AltArt Foundation. The project is financed by the Government of Norway through the Norway Grants 2009-2014 within the Poverty Alleviation Program (RO25).

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*** About the Norway Grants Through the Norway Grants and EEA Grants, Norway contributes to reducing social and economic disparities and to strengthening bilateral relations with the beneficiary countries in Europe. Norway cooperates closely with the EU through the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA).

For the period 2009-2014, Norway’s contribution is €1.7 billion. Grants are available for NGOs, research and academic institutions, and the public and private sectors in the 12 newest EU member states, Greece, Portugal and Spain. There is broad cooperation with Norwegian entities, and activities may be implemented until 2016.

Key areas of support are environmental protection and climate change, research and scholarships, civil society, health and children, gender equality, justice and cultural heritage.

The content of this material does not necessarily reflect the official position of Norway Grants 20092014.

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