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In the context of the educational gap between rural and urban area in Romania, the pandemic generated by Covid-19 began to produce long-term negative effects among schools in rural or small urban areas in Romania. The lack of adequate sanitation, of tablets or telephones for online learning, as well as the economic impact of the state of alert and emergency creates a cascading effect among students and teachers in poor villages in Romania. Students have no means of recovering the classes, teachers are demotivated, and these communities forget how and what they can do to ask for help and to unite in finding local solutions.
The project aims to bridge the formal learning gaps for 520 students from 5 middle schools in Tulcea County (Hamcearca, Peceneaga, Dorobantu, Horia and Ostrov) with the help of 20 teachers and 5 educational counselors, through training sessions and private lessons on subjects where they have gaps. At the same time, the same 520 students and 320 young high school students from 3 technological high schools from the villages of Topolog, Isaccea and Macin (small urban) will have the expertise of 10 specialists, who helped by 4 volunteers and the project team, will deliver informal and nonformal educational sessions for human rights, education for dignity and primary hygiene, advocacy and representation. Subsequently, the 8 communities of students and young people will be encouraged to join in informal representation groups, school associations or types of associations to represent and demand their rights, and to participate in public consultations. 4 of the 8 communities are provided to create such mechanisms, and to organize 4 public consultations together with the local authorities. The entire project will be implemented with the help of educational units, local town halls with which collaboration protocols will be concluded, and with the support of the Tulcea County School Inspectorate.