Phiren Amenca

(Membership Status: Candidate) The Phiren Amenca (Phiren Amenca from Romani language - Walk with us) International Network is a network of Roma and non-Roma volunteers and voluntary service organizations creating opportunities for non-formal education, dialogue and engagement to challenge stereotypes and racism. Phiren Amenca (PA) has 11 Member organisations from 10 European countries. The network has a secretariat based both in Budapest and Brussels with the core team allocated in the Budapest office. Since the network was established (November 2010) we managed to send, receive and coordinate more than 400 Roma and non-Roma volunteers across Europe. Annually Phiren Amenca is providing a number of international training on topics such as fighting stereotypes and antigypsyism among young people, responding to hate speech online, promoting active citizenship and participation, and others. Phiren Amenca's team and experts have developed a number of publications (guidelines, manuals, researches and reports) that are accessible online at our webpage and can be multiplied by other youth organisations and workers as good practices. We are closely working and cooperating with the Council of Europe, the European Commission (DG JUST), the European Parliament, a number of youth, human-rights and Roma civil society networks and organisations. We are proud that the Phiren Amenca International Network has been an official partner of the European Youth Event - EYE since its very beginning in 2014 and that we kept this partnership until today as we find it important to mainstream the issues we are working on among European youth.