Resource HUB
The INSCHOOL Resource Hub is dedicated to promoting and supporting quality inclusive education for all children, including Roma children, and facilitate access to best practices, interventions, studies and policies tailored to bridge the existing gaps in the pursuit of educational equity for Roma students. It provides a selected list of the relevant European and international standards and tools, country-based reports, academic articles, studies and reports as well as curriculum supporting materials. The Hub also includes INSCHOOL project specific resources, such as the learnings form its international capacity building activities. The main objective of the Resource Hub is to increase the knowledge, capacity, and support inclusive teaching practices of anyone involved to support inclusive learning environments. This Resource Hub is by no means exhaustive, and it will be updated frequently to include any additional materials, in close cooperation with the relevant stakeholders in the Project countries and beyond. Please see the list below for the relevant resources by type.
Resource types
Council of Europe standards
Texts adopted by other bodies of the Council of Europe
European Union resources
EU Strategic Framework for equality, inclusion and participation
Equality and Values Documents (European Commission)
Pathways to School Success Documents (European Commission)
Roma inclusion in education: fostering constructive attitudes and good practices in the Barcelona area (European Commission, 2018)
KHETAUN (TOGETHER) (European Commission, 2017)
Country specific resources
Belgium
Participation in the teaching of the children of Travellers in Belgium (UNIA, 2017)
Bulgaria
National Survey on Roma Educational Attainment and Employment. Key Findings from a nationally representative study of the Roma community in Bulgaria (Trust for Social Achievement, 2020)
NOSEGREGATION: Local Action Against School Segregation of Roma D2.5. School segregation maps in Bulgaria (Amalipe Center for Interethnic Dialogue and Tolerance, 2020)
Independent Impact Assessment of the Project “Every Student Can Be a Winner” (Amalipe Center for Interethnic Dialogue and Tolerance, 2015)
Croatia
Inclusion of Roma in Croatian Society: Education and Employment (Office for Human Rights and Rights of National Minorities of the Government of the Republic of Croatia, 2020)
Czech Republic
Message from determination of qualified estimates number of Roma pupils in primary schools in the 2016/17 school year (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of Czechia, 2017)
Ethnic discrimination of Roma children in Czech schools (Amnesty International, 2015)
Estonia
The situation of young people from the Roma nation in the Republic of Estonia: education and working environment final report (Civitta, 2014)
Finland
Romani children in early education and in pre-school education (Finnish National Agency for Education, 2020)
Becoming tolerable: subject constitution of Roma mediators in Finnish schools (Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, 2019)
Germany
Successful educational biographies of Sinti and Roma (Beltz Juventa, 2017)
The Netherlands
A study into the meaning of the right to education for children in the Netherlands, specifically aimed at homeschooling, stay-at-home parents and Roma children (Tilburg University, 2015)
Romania
Framework order no. 6.134/21.12.2016 on the prohibition of school segregation in pre-university education units (by Ministry of Education of Romania, 2016)
Slovakia
Methodological Guide on Desegregation (Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, 2024)
A lesson in discrimination. Segregation of Romani children in primary education in Slovakia (by Amnesty International, 2017)
Support for High School Education of Roma Youth Through Temporary Compensation Measures (by CVEK, 2015)
Slovenia
Why so many Romani children do not finish school? (Amnesty International, 2018)
Sweden
Current situation of Roma in schools (Skolverket, 2018)
Roma, Education, and Higher Education policies: The international context & and the case of Sweden (UMEA University, 2015)
INSCHOOL related resources
Standard setting tool for teaching Romanes (Council of Europe, 2022)
Romania INSCHOOL country report (European Union, Council of Europe, 2021)
Evaluation of the European Union & Council of Europe Joint Project – Inclusive Schools: Making a Difference for Roma Children (INSCHOOL) (Blomeyer & Sanz, 2021)
Implementation of the INSCHOOL project in the Czech Republic (European Union, Council of Europe, 2021)
Implementation of the INSCHOOL project in Hungary (European Union, Council of Europe, 2019)
Implementation of the INSCHOOL project in Slovakia (European Union, Council of Europe, 2019)
Implementation of the INSCHOOL project in the United Kingdom (European Union, Council of Europe, 2019)
Draft Recommendation CM/Rec of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the inclusion of the history of Roma and/or Travellers in school curricula and teaching materials (Council of Europe, 2020)
Teaching the history of Roma and Travellers (Council of Europe, 2020)
Overview of INSCHOOL2 implementation (European Union, Council of Europe, 2019)
Project Education of Roma Children in Europe (Council of Europe)
International organisations and NGO resources
ERGO
Council Recommendations on digital education and training: What's in them for Europe's Roma? (ERGO, 2023)
Education, training and lifelong Learning (ERGO, 2021)
ERRC & Amnesty International
A lesson in discrimination segregation of Romani children in primary education in Slovakia (ERRC & Amnesty International, 2017)
UNESCO
Roma education as a lucrative niche: ideologies and representations (UNESCO, 2015)
Inclusion from the start: guidelines on inclusive early childhood care and education for Roma children (UNESCO 2014)
OECD
Inclusion of Roma students in Europe: A literature review and examples of policy initiatives (OECD, 2020)
FRA
Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey (FRA, 2018)
FRA Data website: discrimination in Schools (FRA)
UNICEF
Education pathways in Roma settlements: understanding inequality in education and learning (UNICEF, 2022)
Roma Education Fund
Making Desegregation Work (Roma Education Fund, 2015)
Roma Early Childhood Inclusion Reports (Roma Education Fund, UNICEF, OSF)
International Step by Step Association
European REYN childhood research study exploring the status of young Roma children and their families (International Step by Step Association, 2023)
World Bank
Breaking the Cycle of Roma Exclusion in the Western Balkans (World Bank, 2019)
Being Fair, Faring Better Promoting Equality of Opportunity for Marginalized Roma (World Bank, 2016)
Research and studies
Roma Youth and Roma Student Societies in Hungarian Higher Education (Pecs University, 2022)
Inclusion or Exclusion: UK Education Policy and Roma Pupils (Buckinghamshire New University, 2021)
Examination of the Participation of Roma Families in the Educational System: Difficulties and Successful Practices (Rocío Merchán-Ríos, Silvia Abad-Merino, Blas Segovia-Aguilar, 2023)
Chances of Early School Leaving—With Special Regard to the Impact of Roma Identity (Veronika Bocsi, Aranka Varga, Anikó Fehérvári, 2023)
Representation of Roma Content in Curricula and Textbooks at the Initial Education Level in Serbia (Aleksandra Trbojević, Biljana Jeremić, Hadži Živorad Milenović, Bojan Lazić, 2023)
Who I am and who I share it with. Roma university students between invisibility and empowerment (Cristina Goenechea, Beatriz Gallego-Noche, Francisco Javier Amores Fernández, 2022)
Children's rights in European education. Dilemmas, challenges and implementation regarding Roma children in selected European countries – An introduction (Andrea Óhidy, Sheila Riddell, Alina Boutiuc-Kaiser, 2022)
Segregation, education, and inclusion of European Roma: A demographic analysis (Krzysztof Czaderny, 2022)
Towards Inclusion in Spanish Higher Education: Understanding the Relationship between Identification and Discrimination (Gallego-Noche, Beatriz Goenechea, Cristina Antolínez‐Domínguez, Inmaculada Valero‐Franco, Concepción, 2021)
Between Antigypsyism and Human Rights Education: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Representations of the Roma Holocaust in European Textbooks (Marko Pecak, Riem Spielhaus, Simona Szakács-Behling, 2021)
Comparative overview of the capacity of the education systems of the CEE countries to provide inclusive education for Roma pupils (Agnes Kende, 2021)
Education of Roma and Educational Resilience in Hungary (Z. Attila Papp & Eszter Neumann, 2021)
Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Aspects of Roma Education (Hristo Kyuchukov, 2020)
Anti-Roma racism and the white academic agenda: hidden blind-spots of the Education System (Cayetano Fernández, 2020)
The Role of Volunteering in the Integration of Roma Children in Schools-Lessons for the Republic of North Macedonia (Merita Zulfiu Alili, Veli Kreci, Alexander Krauss and Nada Trunk, 2020)
Educational Challenges of Roma Minorities: The Case of the Republic of North Macedonia (Elena Rizova, Mira Bekar, Zoran Velkovski, 2020)
The Representation of Roma in European Curricula and Textbooks. Analytical Report ( Council of Eruope, 2020)
Social Selection in Education: the Wider Context of the Segregation of Roma Pupils in Hungary (PETER RADO, 2019)
Equal Access to Education: An Evaluation of the Roma Teaching Assistant Program in Serbia (Jana Obrovská, Kateřina Sidiropulu Janků, 2019)
LIFELONG LEARNING AND THE ROMA MINORITY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE (ANDREA ÓHIDY AND KATALIN R. FORRAY, 2019)
Framing education policies and transitions of Roma students in Europe (Nafsika Alexiadou, 2019)
Intercultural Education for Sustainability in the Educational Interventions Targeting the Roma Student: A Systematic Review (Norma Salgado-Orellana , Emilio Berrocal de Luna and Christian Alexis Sánchez-Núñez, 2019)
Equality in the Making? Roma and Traveller Minority Policies and Basic Education in Three Nordic Countries (Jenni Helakorpi, Sirpa Lappalainen, Reetta Mietola, 2018)
School Climate, Academic Achievement and Educational Aspirations in Roma Minority and Bulgarian Majority Adolescents (Radosveta Dimitrova, Laura Ferrer-Wreder & Johan Ahlen, 2018)
Increasing Access to Higher Education and the Reproduction of Social Inequalities: The Case of Roma University Students in Eastern and Southeastern Europe (Simona Torotcoi, Stela Garaz, 2017)
‘Even if we are Roma, we are clean, respectful, and always went to school’: Analysing the types, functions, and meanings of capitals that shape the upward educational mobility path of Roma in Romania (Zsuzsa Plainer, 2017)
The underrepresentation of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils in higher education (Ellie Mulcahy, Sam Baars, Kate Bowen-Viner and Loic Menzies, 2017)
Differentiation in the Making: Consequences of School Segregation of Roma in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia (Vera Messing, 2017)
Beyond Inclusion: Reconsidering Policies, Curriculum, and Pedagogy for Roma Students (Maja Miskovic, Svjetlana Curcic, 2016)
Equality of Opportunity for Marginalized Roma Children: Starting Right (Sandor Karacsony, 2016)
'Roma education' as a lucrative niche. Ideologies and representations (Matras, Yaron; Leggio, Daniele Viktor; Steel, Mirela, 2015)
The cultural responsiveness of teacher candidates towards Roma pupils in Serbia and Slovenia – case studies (Mojca Peček, Sunčica Macura-Milovanović, Nataša Vujisić-Živković, 2014)
Curriculum support
Innovative education of Roma Inclusion Mediators (Mentors of Europe's Diversity/ European Commission)
Traveller's rights. Human Rights in the Curriculum (Amnesty International, 2014)
GRTS teaching resources (Devon County Council, 2013-2014)
Quality education in Romani for Europe (QualiRom) (European Centre for Modern Languages/CoE)
Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month - Resource pack (West Sussex County Council)
Celebrating Gypsies, Roma and Travellers - a display resource (West Sussex County Council)
Friends, Families and Travellers: Teaching Resources (Friends, Families and Travellers NGO)
Empowering Roma Children: Suggestions for Tackling Bullying and Victimisation in Schools in Ireland and Cyprus (Breathe: Preventing bullying and discrimination of Roma children, GMGO)
Study Visits
