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The project Affirmative action is based on the idea that not everyone has the same opportunities to get an education or a job because of belonging to a certain long-term disadvantaged group. Roma, women, migrants, or people with disabilities are often not judged solely based on their skills. The project is a tool to balance opportunities and helps overcome these ethnically set disadvantages. The project aims at better use of affirmative actions, through the improved awareness to increase the employment of Roma, primarily those from marginalized Roma communities. Affirmative actions are high-frequency measures increasing participation of a specific group in the specific actions – employment, education, access to public services, or others. Nevertheless, the approach focuses mainly on employment and job creation, it will also impact the issues of education and training of skills, inequalities, poverty, and marginalization or promoting gender equality. The project includes support for 1 existing service centre - Applicant locates in marginalized Roma communities Accommodation SPOOL, with the close distance to the other Roma community centres. The project partner Slovak National Centre for Human Rights carries out awareness-raising activities aimed at the public, capacity-building activities aimed at experts as well as research activities. The Norwegian project partner Stiftelsen Mangfold i Arbeidslivet contributes to the sharing of experiences from Norway and the Nordic countries relating to policies and practices in companies.