Completed projects

Our Association also works in networks and participates in different organizations related to the Roma community, adult education and the fight against gender violence at regional, national and European levels.

Some of these organizations in which DromKotar Mestipen participates are:

• Pla Integral del Poble Gitano a Catalunya promoted by the Departament de Benestar Social i Família de la Generalitat de Catalunya and specifically within the administration as part of the working groups of Women and Education and as members of its Advisory Council.
• Federació d’Associacions Culturals i Educatives de Persones Adultes (FACEPA) – Consell Municipal del Poble Gitano de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona, both in the permanent commission and in the work commissions.
• Centre d’Estudis Gitanos de la UB, in the Assessor Council.
• Intergroup of the Roma People of the Parliament of Catalonia.

Apart from these groups, Drom Kotar Mestipen has participated as a collaborating institution in other European projects and Spanish projects.

At the national level:

Drom Kotar Mestipen is a member of KAMIRA, a Federation of Roma women from Córdoba, Spain. The collaboration has become stronger during the last years, especially with the work of empowering Roma women, and the concern of how to deal with gender violence and human trafficking, which also affects greatly the Roma communities.

At the European level:

Drom Kotar Mestipen is an invited member of three recognized organizations active at the European level, where in each of them the voices of grassroots Romani women are carried.

• The International Romani Women Network (IRWN)
• European Women’s Lobby
• EU Civil Society Platform against Trafficking in Human beings

The RTransform project is coming to a close, and to this end we moved to Brussels on 7 September, to share the achievements achieved in these three years, the dream of bringing Roma Students’ Meetings from Catalonia to more territories became a reality, Roma women from Greece, Hungary, Bulgaria, the United Kingdom, together with our entity, held these meetings in their territories, achieving changes in the education system and empowering Roma girls and women to continue to form despite the barriers that we find in society.

This time we in the European Parliament will share the results and impact produced by this project.

We have been awarded several prizes for our work and the social impact we have generated.

• Award granted by the jury of the XX March 8th Maria Aurèlia Capmany Award – Intergenerational Dialogue 2006. Barcelona City Council.
• Francesc Macià Plaque 2005. Recognition of the role of the organization in the field of improving the employment of Roma women. Generalitat de Catalunya. Department of Labor and Industry.
• Equity Award – difference between men and women 2002 for the best social innovation project, obtained jointly with the FACEPA women’s group and the Heura women’s group. Catalan Women’s Institute
• Sucessful story of the ROM-ACT project (Expanding Roma women’s access to non-formal and informal validation systems) by the European Commission. The said project was coordinated by Drom Kotar Mestipen from January 2013 until December 2014.
• Sucessful story of the OED (Outreach, Empowerment and Diversity) project by the European Commission. Drom Kotar has participated as a partner in this project from December 2012 to November 2014. Currently, the association is part of the second part of the project, ImplOED, which consists of the implementation of the first part.

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On October 8, we held the final conference of the Roma Connect project at the Saló de Cent in Barcelona.

Two years ago, Roma women from Hungary, Greece, Romania, and Spain united to create a campaign featuring videos of real testimonies. These videos were shared on social media with the aim of reaching as many people as possible to raise awareness about the effects of anti-Gypsyism.