Romina MATEI

Current occupation

Project coordinator at the Intercultural Institute Timisoara

Work experience

2018
Coordinating the national program "REACT_RO: educational resources for learning the Romanian language and cultural accommodation of the Beneficiaries of international Protection (BPs) and of the Third-Country Nationals residing in Romania (TCNs)"

2017
Trainer in the transnational program "The right to a new life" - developing soft competences for young offenders from the juvenile detention center from Republic of Moldova.

Facilitator in SALTO Inclusion events - “Colleagues Support group for Inclusion & Diversity Strategies for NAs”; and the international seminar "Under the same roof – cross-sectorial cooperation for Roma inclusion”

2016
January 2016 – January 2017
Ministry of Youth and Sports
Adviser for the State Secretary of Youth
Main responsibilities: Working on diversity and inclusion of less privileged young people policies and programs; Elaborating and reviser national youth policies; Conducting structured dialogue process; Coordinate a national consultation mechanism; Encouraging new forms of youth participation at national level

I pushed for relaunching in Romania the No Hate Speech Campaign and I worked very closely with the National Coordination Committee in planning and drafting the first activities of the Campaign in Romania in 2016. I co-organised the first Regional Training Course on Bookmarks, international TC organised by the Ministry of Youth and Sports Romania and Council of Europe.

I participated together with the State Secretary of the Ministry of Youth and Sports in the Interministerial Committee Coalition for Integration of Refugees and in the inter-ministerial Committee - Strategy for inclusion of Romanian citizens belonging to Roma ethnicity.

Promoting and organizing the first National Roma Youth Forum - a partnership event between Ministry of Youth and Sport and Roma youth NGOs.

Together with a team of experts from the West University Timisoara, I have launched in Romania the call for the first post-university course for educational resources management for youth work.

Trainer in the three national training courses for intercultural mediators - persons with a migrant background acting as mediators for refugee and migrant integration

Facilitator of the crash course “Shaping Inclusion & Diversity: Inclusion & Diversity Strategies for NAs” organised by SALTO Inclusion, SALTO Cultural Diversity and the Portuguese E+ Youth NA, March 2016.

2015
- Delivering training courses for the National Agency for Erasmus Plus in Romania on the following topics:
- Strategic planning and organisational development
- Project writing
- On-arrival training courses for international European volunteers
- The design of learning activities
- Participating as a trainer in the “iNEETiative – Holistic Approach to Youth at Risk and in NEET situation” Seminar, 18th - 23rd of May 2015 in Romania/Bucharest, organised by SALTO Inclusion together with the Romanian National Agency
- Coordinating in Romania the international project "MOB G.A.E - MOBility as a source of personal and professional Growth, Autonomy and Employability" - http://www.mobgae.eu/
- Facilitating the national meeting of the national organisation ARDOR in order to create the national strategy of ARDOR
- Facilitating the General Assembly of Youth Express Network - July 2015
- Participating in the international exchange leadership program of the U.S.A. - State Department, "Working for the underserved"

2014
- Delivering training on Human Rights for the staff from Kuwayfyiah Prison of Benghazi, Libya
- Trainer involved in the "Training of trainers" programn for the inmates from the prison Timisoara
- Coordinating the local project for developing the local strategy for youth "Give voice to your generation"
- Member in the national trainers network for Erasmus Plus program
- Responsible with local and national seminars in the project "Migrant in intercultural Romania"
- Coordinating the international project in Romania "More women in politics"

2013
Coordinating the following projects:
- Local and national seminars "Migrant in intercultural Romania"
- Roma-Act - widening Roma women’s access to non-formal and informal learning validation systems
- More women in politics

2012
Member in the national network of trainers for the Romanian National Agency of the Program Youth in Action
Coordinator of the project "Intercultural Romania" - dealing with social integration of migrants in Romania
Local coordinator of the international project "T.Y.P.E - Tackling young people welfare in Europe"