In Brussels will officially begin a three-year project “Integration of Roma 2020”, worth 1.8 million euros, whose goal is economic and social integration of the Roma population in the Western Balkans and in Turkey. Project of the Regional Cooperation Council, which is funded by the European Union and the Open Society Foundation, is actually a continuation of the Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005-2015, during which there has been some progress, but a number of problems relating to the level of involvement of Roma in society remained unsolved.
The most important objective of the “Roma Integration 2020” is to contribute to reducing socio-economic gap between the Roma and non-Roma in the Western Balkans and Turkey and the strengthening of the institutional responsibilities of governments in the region to incorporate and meet specific goals for Roma integration.
The project includes seven beneficiaries of the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance IPA II – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey, and the project headquarters is in Belgrade.
