Asociatia Femeilor Din Romania

ASOCIATIA FEMEILOR DIN ROMANIA

Women’s Association of Romania

PRESS STATEMENT

Women Association from Romania, lider and initiator of women’s movement, organizes on the 2nd of July, 2002, at 11 o’clock, at the A.F.R. office, on 2 Victor Eftimiu Street, et.6, cam.400-401, the Round Table followed by a Press statement, within the program SOCRATES / GRUNDTVIG2, regarding Adults’ Education. The partners of the project and representatives of the civil society will be present there.

A.F.R. coordinates the project “Different cultures can make a United Europe”, a multicultural project of European cooperation with partners from Italy, Scotland and Hungary and with financial support from the European Commission.

The objectives of the project are:

• Increase participants’ level of knowledge and abilities regarding adults’ education, as far as communication and ethnic tolerance are concerned within multicultural communities.
• Help participants put into practice the newly found pieces of information and the newly discovered abilities regarding life in multicultural communities.
• Increase cooperation between different cultural and educational organizations from distinct European regions on the issue of interethnic tolerance.

A.F.R. also has partners in Romania from Oltenia (CRAIFOR, who organized the event “2002 March symbol”, held on the 8th of March 2002, where representatives from local minorities have participated) and CORDIAL , Adjud, Vrancea (different meetings with representatives of rroma ethnic group).

The target group of the project has been determined as a result of the continuous increase of multiethnic communities along Europe and of the intention to use dynamic activities that should include specific elements of each culture.

The partners of the project wanted to realize a common program of active citizenship within multicultural societies. As we know that Europe is the continent with the oldest cultures in the world, we believe it is extremely important that the inhabitants of the old continent know themselves and each other better and respect multicultural diversity. We will never have a common culture, but we must learn to respect cultural values and to collaborate in a Europe with no borders and with an increased number of multicultural communities.

A.F.R. as visited its partners within the project (Scotland in February 2002; Italy in March 2002 and Hungary in April 2002). These visits represented a positive exchange of experiences, according to the basic concept of the partnership – Adults’ Education.

The project has been developed since the 1st of August 2001; it will finish its first year on the 31st of July 2002; it has been approved to continue until the 31st of July 2003, with partners from Italy and Portugal.

The project is registered with no.01-62-36-B-RO and is supported by SOCRATES NATIONAL AGENCY from ROMANIA through contract no.8110 from 09/11/01.

Liliana Pagu,

President of A.F.R.