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A Romani research association
Romani knowledge,
told by us
In Caló and Romani, chanipen means knowledge. We recover, produce and share rigorous knowledge about the Roma people, with Romani voices at the centre.
The history of the Roma people is not only Romani history:From our research and memory work
it is the history of Europe.
Three axes, one body of work
Knowledge as a tool
For our people knowledge is not just information: it is living memory, collective wisdom passed down through generations, and the force that drives us to resist and transform.
We produce and share rigorous, critical knowledge about the Roma people in our own voices.
We preserve and pass on our history, languages and cultures against silencing.
We turn knowledge into a tool for truth, equality and the defence of rights.
Our work
Projects
We research, recover memory and take that knowledge into classrooms, archives and public debate.
Our work takes different forms — research and outreach projects, workshops and training for schools and organisations, and our own publications through CHANIPEN Press — but it always pursues the same thing: that knowledge about the Roma people be produced by the Roma people.
News
Latest
Romanipen Escolar at EDUTRAT 2026, University of Alicante
Maria Dumitru presented the agenda and the teacher’s guide at the 1st International Forum on Educational Technology, Research and Transfer.
Read moreShowing our collaborators the finished Romanipen Escolar
An online meeting to show the printed agenda and teacher’s guide to the people who made them possible.
Read moreIntroducing the agenda in the classrooms of CEIP Asdrúbal
The children had already had their copies since the first day of term. On 15 September we walked them through it.
Read moreRomanipen Escolar: a Romani agenda to transform the school
Cartagena will host the pilot of an educational initiative with national and European reach.
Read moreRomanipen Escolar begins with the teaching staff at CEIP Asdrúbal
Seven teachers received the training ahead of the pilot and their copy of the teaching guide.
Read moreRomani Resistance Day in Cartagena
Research, oral memory and poetry in the same room: a lecture, a round table with two older Romani activists from the city, and a poetry reading.
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There is room for you
This is held up by people and organisations. There are three ways to be part of it, and all three count.
Volunteering
Research, translation, event organising or digital archiving. Open to Roma and non-Roma who share our commitment.
Become a volunteerCollaborate
Universities, Romani organisations, schools and cultural centres: we widen reach, strengthen networks and multiply impact.
Propose a collaborationDonate
One-off or regular contributions. Every one sustains our research, archive and rights work.
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