On Monday 20 June the Fundació Privada Pere Closa and students from the Antoni Botey School presented a Teatre Rromanò production at the Teatre Principal in Badalona. Teatre Rromanò is a project supported by the Fundació Privada Pere Closa designed to bring Romani culture and values to schools through the performing arts. A little more […]
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For five days, a diverse range of young Roma from European countries participated in a youth exchange in Barcelona organised by the Associació Intercultural Nakeramos to analyse the role that art can play in combating anti-Roma discrimination. Over the last decade, the European Commission has strongly promoted the exchange of ideas and experiences from different […]
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On Friday 3 June, the Rom21 project sponsored by the Fundació Pere Closa concluded with a ceremony at the Badalona History Museum that was hosted by the city’s mayor. The Fundació Privada Pere Closa (FPPC) began its work with children and young people in the late 1990s by supporting the education of Romani students. After […]
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The graduation ceremony for Roma studying for the compulsory secondary education certificate for students over the age of 18 sponsored by the Comprehensive Plan for the Roma People in Catalonia was held on 20 May. The education of family members of school-age children has been recognised as successful by the European Commission. This event was […]
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Last weekend a group of sixteen Roma took the university entrance exam for students over the age of 25 at the Bellaterra campus of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. For more than one year, almost twenty Roma students have prepared to sit university entrance exams, thanks to an initiative included within the Comprehensive Plan for […]
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Jelen Amador, a young Romani from Barcelona’s Zona Franca district, holds of a Bachelor’s Degree in Law and is currently pursuing a PhD in Sociology. Jelen just received the first Young Sociologists Prize awarded by the Catalan Studies Institute for her research on the Evangelical Church of Philadelphia and the role played by Romani women […]
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Jelen Amador, a Romani PhD student, has won the Young Sociologists Prize awarded by the Institute of Catalan Studies as part of the Sant Jordi Prize 2016. Maria Jerusalen Amador (Zona Franca, 25 years of age), a Roma and PhD student in sociology at the University of Barcelona, has been awarded the first prize in […]
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In the third episode of our series we meet Alfredo, a young man from Sabadell who tells us how he went to university for the first time at the age of 37 and what motivated him to do it.
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In the second interview Nieves Heredia, an education officer at the Fundació Pere Closa with children and young people in la Mina district, talks about what she does every day and her view about academic encouragement for Roma women.
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In our first interview we meet Jacob, a young Roma from the Sant Roc neighbourhood in Badalona, who is completing his Aeronautical Engineering studies.
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