Talent Routes V4 Conference

Dezső Máté is a Hungarian-Roma sociology researcher, he is a PhD candidate at Eötvös Lóránd University Budapest, Hungary. He was a visiting researcher and teacher in many Hungarian and European Universities and he is teaching for years in Hungarian schools, mostly disadvantaged kids.

Ilona Nótár is a Hungarian-Roma cultural anthropologist, researcher. Now she is studying to be a midwife and doing her PhD, she wrote more books and constantly keeping trainings, mostly for Roma kids, about self-knowledge and career orientation.

The aim of this program created by OSF is to support selected Roma university students during their studies, as well as with their professional and personal development. The reason of creating this scholarship is to help students to successfully finish their university studies and enter to the labor market with the best possible CV.

ARA ART is an association mainly consisting of young people who are involved in art creation with social overlap and organizing cultural events. Their main field of activity is music and theatre. They are also dealing with organizing conferences, discussions and educational projects focused on the population that suffers from social disadvantages. They also create many events with the co-operation of young Roma artists.

Pavel Berky is a worldwide famous designer; his name is well known in the fashion industry. Pavel is proud for his Roma origin and loves to use traditional Roma and cultural elements in his collections.

Malgorzata Mirga Tas is a strong and talented polish Roma artist. She is organizing several projects for Roma and also for non-Roma people, especially for children, youngsters and women.
Through these programmes, she helps them to have more positive social experiences and to develop their creativeness and artistic skills as well.

The project reacts on the issue of increasing rate of early school dropout, thereby the number of uneducated young people, specifically in the context of young Romas. In relation to this, the project comes up with recommendations which would consider the situation of excluded marginalized groups and the barriers their members face in access to education.

The Roma Education Fund (REF) is an international foundation established in 2005 and dedicated to closing the gap in educational outcomes between Roma and non-Roma people. REF provides grants and scholarships to entities and individuals who share its belief in quality, inclusive education and desegregated schools and classrooms.