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More than  30 principals of schools, providing professional education in the “Every student will be a winner” network, as well as representatives of NGOs, participated in the roundtable “Problems of professional education in multicultural environment“. In the roundtable participated the Minister of Education – Krassimir Valchev. The participants discussed and asked questions about the main challenges in engaging and successful graduation of secondary education of Roma youth, accentuating on professional education. They discussed and the questions...

The sixteenth edition of the Roma children`s festival “Open heart” gathered more than 1600 children, teachers and parents from 100 schools, culture centers and united child complexes in the country, as well as young people and volunteers from the Community development centers, created by Center “Amalipe”. If I say that this festival was the most colourful and filled with emotions and supporting events, I wouldn`t be exaggerating. It`s not a coincidence that we titled it also Escape festival – together, organizers, participants and guests escaped...

Around 200 representatives from businesses, civil society and experts of the 28 (27) Member States of the European Union dealing with non-discrimination, equality and diversity issues took part in the 10th EU Diversity Charters’ Annual Forum. The forum was organized by  European Commission , DG JUST in Brussels on 16 May. Deyan Kolev from Center Amalipe was one of the keynote speakers in the opening panel discussion on the topic “Reflections on diversity & inclusion – past, present and future". He raised the topics of Roma and Romani  women employment....

For a second year, the Ministry of Education and Science distributes additional funds for working with children and students from vulnerable groups to kindergartens and schools with high concentration. In 2019, the secondary school students and vocational school students are also included. How are those funds determined and what are the new things compared to the previous year? The texts regulating additional funds for working with children and pupils from vulnerable groups, in particular Art. 52a and 52b of the Financing Ordinance and the tables attached to them were updated...

Ivan Todorov from Amalipe Center attended the official ceremony of welcoming His Holiness Pope Francis in Sofia, at the invitation of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria.  The President Rumen Radev welcomed Pope Francis to the Presidency, where was the first stop of the Holy Father in Sofia. They both listened to the Bulgarian and Vatican hymns, then joined the Dondukov 2 building for a close meeting. After a brief conversation with President Radev at 11.30, the pope met with politicians and representatives of the diplomatic corps at Atanas Burov square. A small...