Dear friends and colleagues,

It is a pleasure to invite you to 1st Roma Café with our special guests Adriatic Hasantari and Gerta Xega from Roma Active Albania, who will be opening a topic “Views on Empowerment of Young Roma People.”

The Roma Café will take a place in Brussels, Belgium on January 30, 2012 from 7 p.m. at Mundo B Building, Rue d’Edimbourg 26.

See below more information about the theme and the format of the meeting. We believe that you find your time and will join us to have a cup of coffee or tea over an interesting discussion.

Yours,
The ERGO Network team

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Roma Café

ERGO Network is organizing a monthly Roma Café to share Roma realities through the exchange of facts, ideas, trends, to feed the policy debate on Roma inclusion and citizenship.

Roma Café is an informal space for all who are working or are interested on Roma issues and are eager to understand better the cause. ERGO Network sees it as crucially important to provide space for Roma and officials, as well as the others, to share their stories and debate together about realities and challenges.

For each Roma Café, Roma personalities are invited as debate starters—human rights activists, researchers, social workers, celebrities as well as people who work closely with Roma on grassroots level. While drinking a coffee, a custom of many Roma people, the moderated debates will bring us closer to each other. Roma Café has the intention to bring new thoughts into our lives, projects and policies.

Roma Café is held in English.

Please confirm your participation in the first Roma Café to Gabriela Hrabanova at (g.hrabanova@ergonetwork.org) by 12:00 on Friday, January 27, 2012.

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Roma Café 01/2012

When:  January 30, 2012 from 7:00 p.m.

Where: Mundo B Building, Rue d’Edimbourg 26 (Fair Trade room)

Special guests: Adriatic Hasantari and Gerta Xega (Roma Active Albania)

Topic to be discussed:  Views on Empowerment of Young Roma People

Questions to be answered: What is the impact of EU-financed projects in the daily life of Roma? What is the role of young Roma people in the inclusion process? What is needed for the effective implementation of projects on the local level? How do you motivate young people to be active? How can you mobilize them? What about the generation gap? How can you ensure that the traditional Roma leadership is not an obstacle?