Publications
Research, reports and resources. Findings are published as web pages, not only as PDFs, so they can be read, linked and quoted.
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Research · 2025
Secondary Education for Roma and Egyptian Community Students in Albania
A mixed-methods analysis of access, equity and the gap between an inclusive legal framework and lived reality
Albania has built a comprehensive legal and strategic architecture for the educational inclusion of its Roma and Egyptian national minorities, closely aligned with Council of Europe, EU, UNESCO and ILO standards. In practice the right to secondary and vocational education remains an unfulfilled promise. This study triangulates the legal framework with administrative data and two original surveys to show where the system breaks down.
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Research · 2025
The Role of Roma and Egyptian Parents in Their Children’s Education in Tirana
Improving access to quality, inclusive pre-university education for Roma and Egyptian children in Albania, from the perspective of their parents.
Interviews with 50 Roma and Egyptian parents and guardians in Tirana show strong hopes for their children, but poverty, discrimination that is rarely named, and a wide information gap between families and schools. The paper sets out four recommendations for policy and practice.
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Research · 2021
Access to Justice for Roma: Legal Education of Students, Community and Health Mediators
What 329 people in marginalised settlements in Fier, Rrogozhinë and Berat know about their rights, and the legal problems they face.
Thirty young Roma community and health mediators were trained on the institutions that protect human rights, then ran a short questionnaire in marginalised settlements in their own towns. The study reports what people know about their rights, the legal problems they raised, and what it would take to close the gap between communities and free legal aid.
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Research · 2021
Country Assessment Research: VET Education and Development in Albania
An overview of the situational, legal and institutional framework of vocational education and training for Roma in Albania.
Developed for the WinForVET project, funded by the Austrian Development Agency, the assessment maps how Albania’s vocational education and training system reaches, and fails to reach, Roma learners. It combines official data, the legal and policy framework and a focus group with young Roma, and closes with recommendations for schools, institutions and the Roma Education Fund.
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Research · 2021
The Impact of Post-COVID-19 on Roma Families in Albania
How the pandemic deepened the economic and educational exclusion of the families of Roma Versitas Albania students.
A year into the pandemic, Roma Versitas Albania surveyed its secondary and university students and alumni, and drew on studies by the Institute of Romani Culture in Albania and Walk in My Shoes. The assessment describes how COVID-19 worsened the families’ economic situation, their access to social services and their children’s access to online learning.