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The EDU-EMPOWER Project aims at generating empowerment of Roma vulnerable groups in the Roma slum Pacuret (Pacurari neighbourhood) in Iasi, using education of Roma kids, youth and adults as vehicle. In this slum, affected by poverty and violence, education and empowerment initiative are rare. Metatron Association and Elena Cuza Gymnazium developed this initiative to create, implement and test, and ultimately transform a pilot idea for a Roma kids, youth and adults empowerment through education. The 2 organizations will define the pilot project for counseling, non-formal education and working groups, will ensure the human and material resources for its implementation, will monitor its main steps for min 9 months and will develop recommendations for local public policies in education and social inclusion. At the same time, in the Pacuret community, meetings will be carried out with Roma young and adult people, community initiatives will be facilitated and a collaboration platform in the field of social inclusion will be formed with community leaders, the project partners and other NGOs and relevant public bodies. The project beneficiaries are:directly-50 children participating in the pilot program, about 100 Roma adults and youth, participants in working groups, 5 local NGOs and indirectly, the entire Pacuret community. The partnership ensures consistency and substance to the project actions, as it’s composed of an NGO, whose purpose is to provide educational, counseling and psychological services to beneficiaries from vulnerable groups, represented by one of the constant collaborators of Elena Cuza Gymnazium, where a large part of school-aged children from Pacuret learn and that has built a close connection with the community, for the purpose of preventing school leave and absenteeism.