Facing the future:
Key factors in the development of Roma
population
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Facing the future:
Key factors in the development of Roma population
DRAFT PROGRAMME
Tuesday 24
09:00h
Registration of participants
09:30h
INTRODUCTION
09:40h
EUROPEAN POLICY
Chairman: Czeslaw Walek, Deputy Minister of Human Rights and
Minorities, Czech Republic and Member of the Committee of Experts on
Roma and Traveller, Council of Europe

Council of Europe
Alexander Vladychenko,
Directorate General III

Director
General
of
Social
Cohesion
EU Policy
Member of the Cabinet of Commissioner Vladimir Spidla, European
Commission

Decade for Roma Inclusion: Serbian Presidency
Bodizar Delic, Vice-Prime Minister and National Coordinator for the
Decade for Roma Inclusion, Republic of Serbia
Debate
11:00h
COFFEE BREAK
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11:30h
SPANISH POLICY
Chairwoman: María Dolores Ruiz Bautista, Deputy Director General for
Social Policy, Ministry of Education, Social Policy and Sport

State Policy
Juan Carlos Mato Gómez, Director General for Social Policy, Ministry
of Education, Social Policy and Sport

Regional Policy
Ana María Gómez Pérez, Director General of Social Services and
Inclusion, Government of the Community Autonomous of Andalusia

Local Policy:
Local best practice
Debate
12:30h
13:15h
OFFICIAL OPENING

Mercedes Cabrera Calvo Sotelo, Minister of Education, Social Policy
and Sport

María Ochoa Llidó, Head of Migration and Roma Department /
Directorate General III – Social Cohesion, Council of Europe

Micaela Navarro Garzón, Regional Minister for Equality and Social
Welfare, Government of the Community Autonomous of Andalusia

Alfredo Sanchez Monteserín, Mayor of Seville

Antonio Vázquez Saavedra, Vice-President of State Council of Roma
Community
LUNCH
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14:45h
ROUND TABLE
1. “Young Roma of the XXI century: Training and Education”
Chairwoman: Viktoría Mohacsi, Member of the European Parliament

Javier Vidal García, Director General of Evaluation and Ordenance of
the Educational System, Ministry of Education, Social Policy and Sport

Costel Bercus, Chairman of the Board, Roma Education Fund

Alexandra Raykova, President of the Forum of European Roma Young
People (FERYP)

Domingo Jiménez Montaño, President of the Pere Closa Foundation
Debate
16:15h
COFFEE BREAK
16:45h
ROUND TABLE
2. “Participation of Roma population in society”
Chairman: Bernard Rorke, Director of Roma Initiatives, Open Society
Institute

Rudko Kawczynski, President of the European Roma
Forum (ERTF)

Representative of the State Council of Roma population

Representative of the Regional Government
and Travellers
Debate
18:30h
Visit to the Reales Alcázares, invitation of the Mayor of Seville.
19:30h
Guided tour around the historical centre of Seville, accompanied
by professional tourism guides.
21:00h
Reception in Provinces House, invitation of the Government of
Andalusia.
22:30h
Return to the hotel.
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Wednesday, 25th
09:30h
ROUND TABLE
3. “Roma women as a change factor in society”
Chairwoman: Mabera Kamberi, Vice-Chair of the Committee of
Experts on Roma and Travellers of the Council of Europe

Soledad Pérez Rodríguez, Director of the Andalusian Institute for
Women

Soraya Post, President of the International Roma Women’s
Network (IRWN)

Beatriz Carrillo de los Reyes, President of FAKALI, NGO for
Roma women. Member of the State Council for Roma Community
and the Institute for Roma Culture
Debate
11:00h
COFFEE BREAK
11:30h
ROUND TABLE
4. “Gender equality, equal treatment and non discrimination”
Chairwoman:
Carmen
Navarro,
Discrimination, Ministry of Equality
Director
General
for
Non

Nyamko Sabuni, Minister for Integration and Gender Equality of
Sweden

Dezideriu Gergely, Director of the National Council for Combating
Discrimination, of Romania and Chair of the Committee of Experts on
Roma and Travellers, Council of Europe

Morten Kjaerum, Director of the Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)

Carmen Santiago Reyes, Lawyer and Delegate of the European Roma
and Travellers Forum
Debate
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13:00h
13:30h
15:00h
CLOSING

Beatriz Carrillo de los Reyes, Presidenta de la Federación Andaluza de
Mujeres Gitanas (FAKALI)

Diego Luis Fernández Jiménez, Director of the Institute of Roma
Culture

Juan de Dios Ramírez Heredia, President of the Unión Romaní and
former Member of the European Parliament

Antonio Vázquez Saavedra, Vice-President of the State Council of
Roma Community

Ana María Gómez Pérez, Director General of Social Services and
Inclusion, Government of the Community Autonomous of Andalusia

María Ochoa Llidó, Head of Migration and Roma Department/
Directorate General III – Social Cohesion, Council of Europe

Amparo Valcarce García, Secretary of State of Social policy, Attention
to the Dependency and the Disability. Ministry of Education, Social Policy
and Sport
LUNCH
Return to the hotel
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