The project TERNO (Teachers Education for Roma New Opportunities in School) is a project co-financed by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission (Key Activity 1: Roma Multilateral Projects) which aims to set up and implement special support centres in order to support the Roma children that attend the last classes of the elementary school to complete primary education and pass on to the secondary education.

The general objective of the project is to prevent the early school leaving of the Roma children and support the Roma children to move from the elementary to the secondary education. The project aims to improve the participation/maintanance in school for children with low living standard by overpassing the lack of interest towards traditional learning methods. The specific objective with which the general objective will be achieved is through the training of the teachers (or teaching assistants) that are teaching Roma in order to support the Roma children to complete the elementary education.

The main result that the TERNO project has developed are Centres for the provision of supplementary education for Roma children that are completing the elementary education and are preparing to pass to the secondary education. The organization of these centres was based on a methodology which has included all the important elements in order to help teachers of Roma children to better support children that attend the last classes of the school to complete elementary education and pass to the secondary education.

The consortium of the project is multi-actor, it has a great experience in the field and it has complementary competencies. It is constituted from 6 partners from 5 countries (Greece, Spain, Italy, Hungary and Romania). In the project they participate, 3 Roma Associations, one NGO led by Roma, a Research Institute which is specialized in the education research for the Roma people and an organization specialized in the development of research methodologies and management of LLP projects.

Tab 1 The Project

Tab 2 General Objectives and Activities

Tab 3 Main Results

Tab 4 Partners

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This Italian project is especially innovative: it is inspired by lessons learned from
impoverished regions in the past, where very harsh living conditions made it nearly
impossible for children to bridge the cultural gap between their own familiar world
and that of formal education. Today, Roma children’s access to formal education is
often limited in a way that is reminiscent of the situation of those children in remote,
rural areas of Europe at the beginning of the 20th Century.

The ‘Montessori method’ was developed as an attempt to understand and help
children in impoverished settings who had major difficulties in benefitting from any
education offered to them. Such an approach was first trialled in Villa Montesca and
was based on the revolutionary idea that it is the educative space that has to be
adapted to the children, not the contrary. The Montessori method, based on the
relationship between education and the environment, showed that it was possible
to obtain significant educative results with all social groups and it is not implemented
in the context of impoverished Roma communities.


The objectives of this project include exploring the experience of the establishment
of a cultural centre in the Vilnius Kirtimai Roma settlement, Lithuania, where Gagè
and Roma cultural activities help improve mutual understanding between the two
communities.

Coordinator: VILLA MONTESCA RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTER, IT
Website: www.montesca.it | Tel.: +39 0758521512
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Contact person: Mr Fabrizio Boldrini

Site: http://www.roma.lt/v2/index.php?my-beautiful-school-a-place-where-it-is-possibile-to-be-happy

 

 

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