| February 2003 |
Consultations with European
Roma Rights Center (ERRC) and Human Rights Project (HRP). Initial Meeting with Emil Cohen, mentor. |
March 2003 |
Participation in the first
IPF training session in Budapest Preliminary research at the CEU library and the ERRC Meetings with Rumjan Russinov, (OSI Roma Participation Program), Gabor Toka (CEU), and Claude Cahn and Savelina Danova, ERRC. Finalization of the mentors – contacts and coordination with second mentor Krassimir Kunev from the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC) Preliminary information gathering on Bulgarian Roma political parties. |
| April- May 2003: |
Work on sections one and
two of the project. (See project description) Participation in the International Roma Day Events, Budapest. Attendance of EU Accession Monitoring Program Conference, April 16-17, 2003 Research at the ERRC and CEU library. Consultations with mentors, ERRC staff and other researchers. Draft version of two sections should be ready by the time of the second training session in Budapest, June 1-13, 2003. |
| June 2003 |
Participation in the second
training session in Budapest Additional work with the ERRC. Presentation of the outline of the project, discussion with the mentors, field work |
| July 2003 |
Field work: interviews
Roma political formations and with Roma NGOs. Interviews and other field work Data analysis using UNDP dataset on the trend of political integration among the Roma in Bulgaria Publucation of an artcile in Gitan, a Roma magazine in Bulgarian, and of a short piece in a regioanl newspaper in Pleven, Bulgaria |
| August 2003 |
Completion of the draft
research paper. |