Representatives of REF offices in Slovakia, Hungary and Romania took participation in the study visit organized from December 10-15th with the purpose of exchanging experience within the projects Velux II implemented in beforementioned countries and the Employment Empowerement of Young Roma.
During 10th and 11th December, they attended Training for Trainers, Module 1, Module 2 and Module 3. Topics of the sessions were Mentoring concept, Mentoring process, Mentoring practice and Mentoring – Employment of scholars.
After two-day training, field visits were organized on 12th and 13th December.
REF project team together with colleagues from Slovakia, Romania and Hungary visited Aster Textile Nis Company, where they met with the management and employees. In addition, meeting with the representatives of Roma NGOs from Nis and surrounding towns (Zajecar, Pirot, Kamenica, Lebane, Leskovac) was organized. On 13th December, Roma entrepreneurs from Bujanovac and Presevo were visited.
During this Study visit, colleagues from Slovakia, Romania and Hungary had the opportunity to find out more about ways for motivating young Roma to participate in project activities. Therefore, they could apply models for Roma community mobilization, used within “Employment Empowerment of Young Roma” project. In addition, from conversation with young Roma interns they could see how their participation in the project activities increased employability, especially having in mind that Aster Textile Company employed a large number of young Roma.
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