Roma Emancipation: Obstacles and Opportunities: 170 Years After the Abolition of Slavery in Romania

public seminar — 25.2.2026 14:00

ISPMN and Tranzit House invite you to a public seminar (hybrid event) about the main findings of the 2024 Roma Survey conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA).
This event is part of the DICE–Roma Seminar Series, hosted by the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities (RIRNM/ISPMN).

Presenter: Jaroslav Kling, FRA
Discussants: Cristina Raț / Dan Doghi / Stefánia Toma / Valér Veres
Moderator: László Fosztó
Working language is in English, with possible translation to/from Romanian and Hungarian at request.
FRA, an independent EU center of excellence for promoting and protecting human rights (with decades of work on Roma inclusion), published its 2024 Roma Survey results in October 2025. The report summarizes comparable data from ten EU Member States (Bulgaria, Czechia, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain) and three accession countries (Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia). Presenter Jaroslav Kling, FRA Project Officer in the Equality, Inclusion and Sustainability Unit and a report author, supervised the data collection.

The public seminar aims to examine the persistent disadvantages faced by Roma communities and explore opportunities for their emancipation. Local experts will contribute to initiating the public discussion.
The full report and questionnaire can be consulted here:
https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2025/roma-survey-2024

A shorter summary is available here:
https://fra.europa.eu/…/fra-2025-roma-survey-2024_en_1.pdf
The country factsheet for Romania is available here:
https://fra.europa.eu/…/fra-country_data-roma_survey

Venue: Tranzit House, 1st-floor room
(Str. George Barițiu 16, 400027 Cluj-Napoca)