European Roma Grassroots Organisations Network
Budget
€4,758,464
EP Access
5
accredited persons
Staff
6
4 FTE
EU Grants
€3,617,039
Mission & Goals
ERGO Network wants to achieve equal opportunities for Roma in their societies and encourages them to take an active role in accomplishing respect for their rights as equal citizens. ERGO Network connects organisations that share the conviction that Roma can and should participate as active citizens in their own societies. To overcome the discrimination and stigmatization that are root obstacles to their equal participation in society, ERGO Network supports civic empowerment, mobilization of Roma at grassroots level and leadership at all levels of society. Our approach creates opportunities for Roma to shape the policies that affect them, which can make a crucial contribution to more successful outcomes of inclusion policies. For ERGO Network and its members to combat the exclusion of Roma is a responsibility that needs to be shared by Roma and non-Roma. ERGO Network therefore promotes active citizenship, which implies participation, self-organisation, common responsibility an (...)
EU Legislative Interests
Policy areas: Roma, social policy, anti-discrimination, employment, enlargement, regional policy, ESIF, education, youth, Child Guarantee, European Semester, European Pillar of Social Rights, EU Roma Strategic Framework, hate speech, anti-racism
Communication Activities
Annual co-organisation of EU Roma Week in the European Parliament Organisation of and contribution to panel debates with MEPs, EC officials and civil society representatives (in 2025 e.g. on EU Roma Framework for Equality, Inclusion and Participation, Roma access to employment, Roma access to housing, hate speech, funding for Roma inclusion, Holocaust remembrance, combating antigypsyism) Latest publications: Research on Roma access to employment, responses to European Semester packages
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
ERGO is a member of the Social Platform, of the EU Alliance for Investing in Children and of the Global Forum of Communities Discriminated based on Work and Descent.
Organisation Members
http://ergonetwork.org/about-us/membership/
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.