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Executive summary
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Executive summary
This report is the final publication of the ‘European Network on Social Inclusion and
Roma under the Structural Funds’ in the 2007-2013 programming period. It has a
two-
fold objective:
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To provide a glance at EURoma’s trajectory, main products and overall added value
and impact during its eight years of operation.
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To review how fourteen countries currently involved in the EURoma Network
(Austria,
Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal,
Romania, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden)
consider Roma inclusion in the Operational
Programmes adopted for the 2014-2020 European Structural and Investment (ESI)
Funds programming period
, identifying the most relevant trends as well as the key
challenges for the implementation phase that has already started in Member States.
EURoma: Eight years promoting the use of Structural Funds for
Roma inclusion in the European Union
The ‘European Network on Social Inclusion and Roma under the Structural Funds’ (EURoma
Network) is an initiative
launched in 2007 by the Spanish Government
(Spanish European
Social Fund (ESF) Managing Authority)
in cooperation with the Fundación Secretariado
Gitano (FSG)
, building upon the Spanish experience in the management of Structural
Funds for Roma inclusion, notably within the Operational Programme ‘Fight against
Discrimination’. It aims to
promote the use of Structural Funds for the inclusion of the
Roma population
and as a result enhancing the effectiveness of policies targeting them.
To this end, it
gathers
, under the leadership of the Spanish ESF Managing Authority,
public bodies responsible for Structural Funds
(notably ESF Managing Authorities or
delegated Intermediate Bodies/Implementing Authorities)
and for the policies targeting
the Roma population
(notably the National Roma Contact Points)
from fifteen Member
States:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Hungary,
Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Slovakia and Sweden. The Network also counts on
the
participation of the European Commission.
The Fundación Secretariado Gitano holds
the Technical Secretariat of the Network. In addition, a number of European Regional