The event will bring together experts, educators, and stakeholders from Austria, Germany, Serbia, Ukraine, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, to discuss teaching and learning about the genocide of the Roma and Sinti, and support the national implementation of the IHRA “Recommendations on Teaching and Learning about the Persecution and Genocide of the Roma during the Nazi Era”.

The Vienna meeting will focus on the (mis)representation of Roma and Sinti in education, museums, and memorials. Participants will examine challenges identified by educators and propose strategies for improving the teaching of this history.

Distinguished speakers from Austria include Gerhard Baumgartner (former director of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance – DÖW), Moritz Wein (Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research), Florian Zeller (DÖW), representative of the Austrian Roma and Romnja Student Union, and Ljiljana Radonić (Austrian Academy of Sciences), as well as international experts such as Miško Stanišić (Serbia), director of Terraforming and chairman of the IHRA project on developing Recommendations on Teaching and Learning about the Persecution and Genocide of the Roma during the Nazi Era, Tetiana Storozhko (Ukraine), CEO of Tenet and editor-in-chief of “Djanes?” Informational Platform of the Youth Agency for the Advocacy of Roma Culture; Bas Kortholt (The Netherlands), researcher at the Camp Westerbork Memorial Centre, and others.

As part of the Pasostar ando Prastape – Breaking into a Gallop project, this event is one of several workshops across Europe, fostering collaboration between teachers, policymakers, and educational institutions. The project aims to promote inclusive and innovative approaches to teaching the genocide of the Roma while addressing key challenges in the field.
 
Organizors: Institute of Culture Studies (IKW/ÖAW Austria) in cooperation with Terraforming (Serbia), Centropa (Germany), TENET Center for Social Transformations, and the Intercultural Institute Timișoara (Romania) –in the framework of the project ‘Pasostar ando Prastape – Breaking into a Gallop’ – An International Incubator for Rethinking and Innovation in Education about the Genocide of the Roma during the Nazi Era”

The project is supported by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)Grant Program and the Stiftung Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft (EVZ) Foundation, with funding from the German Federal Foreign Office as part of the YOUNG PEOPLE Remember International program.

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