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A new mobility project for teachers in three high schools in Buzau!
In 14th October this year, the representative of
A better health for Roma people in four European countries
ROMA HEALTH CARE II Between 04th – 08th
ROMINKO II – Partner Meeting in Romania
On 11th April 2019, in Bucharest, at the headquarter
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Buzau County School
CURRICULUM VITAE OF VOX CIVICA ASSOCIATION
Name: Vox Civica
Profile: NGO
Fiscal code: 27347223
Legal address: Str. Răchitei nr. 3 bis, Municipiul Buzău, Romania, cod postal 120163
Website: www.voxcivica.ro
E-mail: office@voxcivica.ro
Phone: +40.745.021.776
+40.743.583.511
PIC: 949120751
Legal representative: Mr Claudiu CĂLIN
Position: Chairman
E-mail: claudiu@voxcivica.ro
Phone: +40.743.583.511
Contact person: Mr Iosif CĂLIN
Position: Executive Director
E-mail: iosif@voxcivica.ro
Phone: +40.745.021.776
Legal status
Vox Civica Association is a NGO, Romanian legal entity of private law, non-profit, non-governmental, apolitical, independent and public interest, established in 2010, based on GEO no. 26/2000, having as founding members people from Buzau municipality.
Mission
Vox Civic Association aims to advocate for:
– Supporting sustainable development of disadvantaged communities, especially those of national minorities at county, national and European level;
– Supporting the personal development of the young persons belonging to vulnerable groups in general, able to provide conditions for asserting their own ideals, values and aspirations;
– Promoting and fostering tolerance, multiculturalism and diversity in multiethnic communities;
– Combating ethnic discrimination and the fight for human rights.
Principles and values
In carrying out its work, our organization is based on the principles of tolerance, multiculturalism, non-discrimination, respect, fairness, principled, accountability, legality, transparency, competence, professionalism, efficiency, solidarity, volunteering, advocating, also, for promoting the values universally recognized as freedom, dignity, equality.
Office and facilities
The head office is located in Buzau, str. Răchitei no. 3 Bis, ZIP code 120163, with an area of about 44 square meters, in bailment, having all utilities necessary for proper functioning. The office has two rooms with necessary furniture and informatic equipment such as: two computers, a laptop, a multifunctional, a projector screen, a camera and video, flipchart etc.).
Staff
At this moment, we have two permanent employees, with work partially time contracts (four hours on a day), according the Romanian law, for who we pay all legal fees and taxes.
We have also, six voluntaries young people with who we work regularly, with volunteering contracts and, other five – six voluntary people with who we work occasionaly.
Concerning the key staff of the organization we must mention Mr Iosif CĂLIN, the Executive Director of the association, who was involved in the vulnerable groups issues since 2001. Then, he gave up to his teacher activity and became advisor of the Prefect for minorities and vulnerable groups issues (the Prefect is the representative of the Government in the territory). Since then, all his activity has been dedicated to solving such issues in the most vulnerable groups all over Buzău county.
He has a big expertize on vulnerable groups issues and in project management, being coordinator of more than 20 projects, since 2001. Since 2013, together with Vox Civica, is involved especially in European projects within Gruntvig, Leonardo da Vinci, Youth in Action, and recentlly, in Erasmus+.
More about our staff you can find on our website www.voxcivica.ro;
Areas of interest
Having in mind our level of expertise in various domains, above mentioned, we are interested of some areas of interest within we can bring an important added value, such as:
– Education – we know to draft curriculas, perform extracurricular activities, we have experience in organizing exchanges among students, teachers and schools from different eureopean countries, to achieve surveys among students and teachers, to develop activities of „After school” type, we know very well the Romanian education legislation etc;
– Entrepreneurship – we know the whole legislation on the setting up, modifying and deletion a company or concerning the freelancers; we know to draft affair plans, products promotion and marketing plans, development strategies, online maketing, market studies, aquisitions and tendering, attracting and promoting human resources etc.
– Youth – we know how to develop strategies for attracting and involving youngsters many activities (public participation, projects implementation, volunteering activities), to develop strategies and programs for the youth workers, we know how to work, empathise and to manage the relations with the young volunteers, we know how to organize activities for personal development, youth exchanges, other interesting activities etc.
– Human rights – we know to draft and to develop campaigns for promotion, sustain and fighting for human rights respect and to combat any kind of discrimination or public rights violation, based of the unanimously appreciated principles like liberty, egality, nondiscrimination, tolerance, mutual respect and so on; we are able to give free of charge consultancy for all kind of human rights violation and to represent, pro bono, any person before the Courts.
Own and attracted resources
The association has two employees with the status of permanent employees and many volunteers, but especially young people in their final years of high school, unemployed and even employees. In terms of its own financing sources, our organization relies on its own resources founding members and small sponsorships and contributions from members and supporters.
Most of the organization’s resources are grants received within various projects, resources provided by donors, public or private, Romanian or international as well as the Buzau County Council, Buzau Municipality Local Council, National Agency for Roma, Roma Education Fund, Open Society Institute, Norway and EEA Grants, European Commission (Erasmus+, DG Justice, etc.), the European funds allocated to Romania.
Partnerships
In fulfilling its mission the organization has partnered with a number of public authorities and institutions and non-governmental and international organizations, such as:
– Buzău County Council, Buzau Municipality Local Council, National Agency for Roma, the Association Institute for Public Policy, Romani CRISS Foundation, Foundation for Community Development “Together”, Association Forum Art Buzau, the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture Buzău, County School Inspectorate, Jugendstil Association – Germany, HEEDA Association – Hungary, OIKOKOINONIA Foundation – Greece, Esmovia – Spain etc.
Projects implemented or ongoing
Title: ROMINKO II (No. 2015-1-DE02-KA204-002455)
Duration: 01 September 2018 – 31 August 2020
Applicant: JugendStil eV. – Germany
Partners: Vox Civica – Romania, HEEDA – Hungary; IED – Greece; FECBOP – France
Financer: National Education Agency for Europe at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education (Germany)
General objective: increasing the access of unemployed people belonging to vulnerable groups, over 35 years, on the labor market by identifying of their abilities and nonformal capacities through a „Bilan de Competences”.
Target group: People from Buzău municipality;
Vox Civica responsibilities: to implement the project at local level.
The stage of the project: ongoing
Title: RomABC – the next dimension (No. 2017-1-DE02-KA204-004217)
Duration: 01.09.2017 – 31.08.2019
Applicant: JugendStil eV. – Germany
Partners: Vox Civica – Buzău (Romania), HEEDA – Kiskunhalas (Hungary); ELLAN PASSE – Athens (Greece);
Financer: National Education Agency for Europe at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education (Germany)
General objective: Increasing of the adult educators´ competences (technical, methodological, personal, social and intercultural in the fields literacy.
Vox Civica responsibilities: to implement the project at local level.
The stage of the project: ongoing
Title: THRIVE (No. 2017-1-RO01-KA104-036256)
Duration: 01.06.2017 – 31.05.2018
Applicant: Vox Civica
Partners: Liceul Tehnologic „Meserii și Servicii” Buzău, Liceul Tehnologic „Dumitru Filipescu” Buzău.
Financer: ANPCDEFP – Romania, through Erasmus+ Program, Key Action 1
General objective: Increasing of the adult educators´ competences (technical, methodological, personal, social and intercultural in the fields literacy, Competence Balance and be enabled to implement according the specific needs of Roma students.
Vox Civica responsibilities: to implement the project.
The stage of the project: completed
Title: A New EntrANCE (No. 2016-1-DE02-KA204-003370)
Duration: 01.09.2016 – 31.08.2018
Applicant: JugendStil eV. – Germany
Partners: Vox Civica – Buzău (Romania), HEEDA – Kiskunhalas (Hungary); IED – Larissa (Greece);
Financer: National Education Agency for Europe at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education (Germany)
General objective: devolopment of the entrepreneurial spirit among young people from vulnerable groups.
Vox Civica responsibilities: to implement the projectat local level.
The stage of the project: completed
Title: ROMINKO (No. 2015-1-DE02-KA204-002455)
Duration: September 2015 – August 2017
Applicant: JugendStil eV. – Germany
Partners: Vox Civica – Romania, HEEDA – Hungary; OIKOKOINONIA – Greece; FECBOP – France
Financer: National Education Agency for Europe at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education (Germany)
General objective: increasing the access of people belonging to vulnerable groups unemployed people, over 35 years, on the labor market by identifying of their abilities and nonformal capacities through a balance of competences.
Target group: people belonging to vulnerable groups from Buzău municipality;
Vox Civica responsibilities: to implement the project at local level.
The stage of the project: completed
Title: YouthCompass (No. 2015-2-HU02-KA205-000935)
Duration: September 2015 – August 2017
Applicant: HEEDA – Hungary
Partners: Vox Civica – Romania, JugendStil eV. – Germany, FECBOP – France
Financer: Hungarian National Agency
General objective: increasing the access of young people belonging to vulnerable groups, to 25 years, on the labor market by identifying of their abilities and nonformal capacities through a balance of competences.
Target group: young people belonging to vulnerable groups from Buzău municipality;
Vox Civica responsibilities: to implement the project at local level.
The stage of the project: completed
Title: RomABC goes Europe (No. 2015-1-DE02-KA204-002381
Duration: September 2015 – August 2017
Applicant: Kontakte fur Europa – Germany
Partners: Vox Civica – Romania, HEEDA – Hungary; IEBA – Portugal (Germany)
Financer: National Education Agency for Europe at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education
General objective: Reduction of the number of functional illiterates among adult Roma.
Target group: Roma people from Buzău municipality;
Vox Civica responsibilities: to implement the project at local level.
The stage of the project: completed
Title: Community center of resources for Roma people in Cândești
Duration: May 2015 – April 2016
Applicant: Vox Civica Association
Partners: Buzău County Council, Vernești Local Council, the Institute for Public Policy – Bucharest
Financer: Norway funds, through Civil Society Development Foundation
General objective: decreasing the dropout among students from disadvantaged families, including Roma students; the services provided by the project for thr students was: after school activities – educational support for do their homework and many other extracurricular activities, providing school supplies, clothes, shoes.
Target group: students from disadvantaged families, including Roma students, in risk of dropout in Cândești community;
Vox Civica responsibilities: to implement the project together with it partners.
The stage of the project: completed
Title: Empowering roma voters from Buzău County
Duration: January 2014 – December 2014
Applicant: Vox Civica Association
Partners: Pro Democrația Association – Bucharest; Journalist of Buzău Asociation
Financer: Open Society Foundation – Budapest
General objective: to increase the level of turnout to the elections of disadvantaged people from Buzău County (in 2014 in Romania was organized two rounds of election: euro-parliamentary election in May and parliamentary election in November).
Target group: disadvantaged voters from Buzău County – Buzău and Râmnicu-Sărat municipalities;
Vox Civica responsibilities: to implement the project together with it partners.
The stage of the project: completed
Title: Centres for educational support „Chave Zurale”
Duration: September 2010 – August 2013
Applicant: Romani CRISS
Partners: Vox Civica Association – Buzău, Generația 2008 Association – Brașov; Kethaness Asociation – Giurgiu
Financer: European Comission within European Social Fund (POSDRU)
General objective: decreasing the dropout among poor students; the services provided by the project for poor students, including Roma students was: after school activities – educational support for do their homework and many other extracurricular activities, providing school supplies, clothes, shoes and a dietary supplement, the attendance of the students to two school camps for socialize and to know each other better.
Target group: poor students, including Roma students, in risk of dropout, in four region of Romania;
Vox Civica responsibilities: to implement the project in the South-East region of Romania.
The stage of the project: completed
Title: Together on the labour market
Duration: October 2010 – September 2013
Applicant: Roma National Agency
Partners: Fondacion Segretariato Gitano – Spain; Vox Civica – Romania
Financer: European Comission within European Social Fund (POSDRU – Sectoral Operational Program – Human Resources Development)
General objective: increasing the access of people from vulnerable groups to the labour market; the services provided by the project for those people was: training in crafts requested by the labour market, councelling activities for an easier acces to a job, support for completion of the studies through activities of type „The second chance”.
Target group: unemployed people from vulnerable groups; Roma young people who did not complete their mandatory studies.
Vox Civica responsibilities: to implement the project in the South-East region of Romania.
The stage of the project: completed

“It is an organization with a strong expertise in vulnerable group issues, particularly of Roma, with open and friendly staff, very hospitable, a pleasure to work with them…” – Mike Lagos, project manager

„Since we started to work together we intuited the potential that this organization has. Since then we identified many situations which confirmed Vox Civica`s team capacity and profesionalism but also its hospitality and friendship!…” – Levente Magyari, Chairman

„Vox Civica is hard working for the emancipation of the Roma people in Buzău County and not only. Its involvement, as Partner in the projects implemented by Romani CRISS, has meant professionalism and determination, empathy and openess and many, many other wonderful things. We looking forward to working together again!…” – Adrian Vasile, Executive Director

„During the mobility project THRIVE, Vox Civica`s participants showed us their own level of professionalism and competence especially in the field of Education and Entrepreneurship as well as the gladness to meet new people and places and make new friends…”, Maria Angeles Ruiz Gamez, Director

„During our long collaboration, Vox Civica Association proved the accountability and competence of its staff within the projects we worked together, mainly of them in the interest of people belonging to vulnerable groups in Buzău Municipality and therefore we are open to any further collaboration …”, Ionuț Apostu, Deputy Mayor

„It is a pleasure to work with Vox Civica, their staff is competent, friendly and put many passion in their work therefore, we think that our collaboration will continue long time from now on …”, Ronald Schönknecht, Chairman
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