ERSTE Stiftung (EFC member) supported the organisation of the conference Romani mobilities in Europe: multidisciplinary perspectives, hosted by The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) at the University of Oxford and part of ‘Maping Romani mobilities in Europe’, a two-year research project funded by the John Fell Oxford University Press Research Fund.

In the last two decades large groups of Roma have migrated from Central, Eastern and South East Europe towards the more affluent countries of the European Union. These groups often had no confirmed legal status, no access to formal employment, lived in precarious circumstances and had limited or no access to healthcare. Furthermore, they have often faced xenophobic and discriminatory treatment from the majority population and become the targets of racially-motivated attacks.

The conference took place on 14-15 January 2010, including a keynote talk by Baroness Emma Nicholson of Winterbourne MEP, entitled 2005-15: The Decade of Roma inclusion: what has been done and what should to be done.

Download the conference proceedings and the abstracts.

ERSTE Stiftung is one of the founding members of the EFC Forum for Roma Inclusion, together with the Bernard Van Leer Foundation, Freudenberg Foundation and the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future".