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the vulnerable communities or underrepresented communities and a new subject to be taught with a view to promote diversity and tolerance, under the future preparation pro- grams for teachers. The proposals that were formulated include strengthening the medium and long term cooperation and partnerships among the institutional stakeholders of the academic environment and NCCD. These were formulated based in the information and data collected from the research report “Discrimination in the university environment: perceptions, fighting mechanisms and media coverage”, that was conducted as part of the same project.

The project implementation term was extended from December 15, 2015 to April 15, 2016, and in addition to the actions mentioned above, cooperation protocols were concluded aimed at achieving the main project purpose, which is the prevention and fight against discrimina- tion in the academic environment. Thus, the National Council for Combating Discrimination initiated and become a partner of:

• • the Ministry of Youth and Sports;

• • West University, in Timișoara;

• • Babeș Bolyai University, in Cluj Napoca;

• • The Romanian National Student Organization Alliances (RNSOA).

Non-discrimination means equal rights! Equal access of Roma children to health services - a fundamental requirement in a non-discriminating society The idea of this project was developed by the representatives of all stakeholders - the Public Policy Institute, SASTIPEN Association and the National Council for Combating Discrim- ination (the latter having the initiative of this project, building on the previous research conducted in partnership and aimed at creating a broad picture of the access of Roma people to health services and assessing the level of discrimination based on the criteria provided by the EC Directive, later joined by the Ministry of Health and the Public Policy Institute as promoters of the respective public policies and the National Health Programs, directly interested in these measures’ balanced impact on all Romanian citizens, in particular the vulnerable groups.

The project aims at helping to fight discrimination and improving the situation of Roma children in 4 communities, significant in terms of population, namely Corbasca and Valea Seacă in Bacău County and Bolintin Vale and Vărăşti in Giurgiu County, by developing and piloting an integrated early intervention model that prevents the risk of getting sick among children, consisting in the creation of multi-disciplinary teams of experts in complementary fields (social assistance and inclusion, non-discrimination, health) to promote, among the beneficiaries, information about a healthy life through the prevention of transmissible dis- eases that are specific to children (with a focus on immunization), an awareness campaign about the importance of prevention and the risks to which children expose themselves when their parents don’t respect their rights to health, agreements at county level for the dissem-

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