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Press releases, conferences, events run by the association and outreach campaigns. What we do, as it happens.

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Conferences 30 September 2026

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.

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Events 24 September 2026

Showing 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.

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Events 15 September 2026

Introducing 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.

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Press releases 15 September 2026

Romanipen Escolar: a Romani agenda to transform the school

Cartagena will host the pilot of an educational initiative with national and European reach.

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Events 7 September 2026

Romanipen 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.

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Events 2 September 2026

Handing the agenda and teacher’s guide to Cartagena’s Equality Service

A meeting with María José Mercader, coordinator of the Equality Service of Cartagena City Council.

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Campaigns 1 September 2026

#MeetOurHistory enters a new stage: DROMA

The campaign continues with the support of the Intercultural Diversity and Inclusion Center (ILO) and launches a monthly explainer video in three languages.

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Campaigns 27 August 2026

“Learn with Romanín”: forty-one biographies on video

Each piece introduces a Romani figure and three facts from their life in just over a minute, made to open the classroom session.

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Press releases 13 August 2026

CHANIPEN creates its imprint, CHANIPEN Press

The association creates its own imprint to publish from within the Roma people, without intermediaries.

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Events 30 June 2026

“El deber de resistir”, with Nicolás Jiménez

Final book launch in the campaign's series: memory and struggles of the Roma people, moderated by Maria Dumitru.

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Conferences 27 May 2026

Lecture on Romani youth, identity and hate speech

Fernando Ruiz Molina spoke in the course “Awareness for Equal Treatment and the Fight against Anti-Roma Racism”.

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Campaigns 16 May 2026

16 May: campaign for Romani Resistance Day

Poster and video in Spanish, English and Romanian on the Auschwitz-Birkenau uprising and the memory of Romani victims.

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Events 14 May 2026

Romani 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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Events 30 April 2026

“We Are the Romani People”, with Professor Ian Hancock

Third talk in the #MeetOurHistory book series.

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Events 24 April 2026

Information session on the Roma Graduate Preparation Program

Organised with Central European University, with Ana Victoria Amador taking part. The two applications later mentored were both accepted.

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Conferences 10 April 2026

“Anti-Roma racism and Roma youth” at the Annual Roma Conference

Maria Dumitru and Fernando Ruiz Molina travelled to the 14th edition of the meeting, within the climate justice and Romani feminist leadership project.

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Events 27 March 2026

“Semillas de coraje”, with Séfora Jiménez

Second book launch in the #MeetOurHistory series, streamed live and kept on the association's channel.

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Campaigns 20 February 2026

#MeetOurHistory opens with Margareta Matache

The talk on “The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism”, with Ismael Cortés and Sebijan Fejzula, opened the campaign and remains the channel's most watched piece.

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