REF Romania

 Contact the Roma Education Fund Romania

Adresa: Str. Vaselor Nr.62 Sector 2, Bucuresti, Romania
 

Telephone contacts:

o +40 -21. 200. 06. 00 – REF office

o +40 -21. 200. 06. 12 – Equal opportunities in education for an inclusive society – ID 60443

o +40 -21. 200. 06. 16 – School after School - the first step to school and professional success – ID 55876

o +40 -21. 200. 06. 22 – A Generation of Roma Specialists in the Medical Field – ID 62047

o +40 -21. 200. 06. 23 - Competitive Roma Youth with Equal Chances on Labour Market – ID 62805

o +40 -21. 200.06. 29 – Roma Memorial University Scholarship

Fax: +40-21-312.50.49

E-mail: office@romaeducationfund.ro
Web: www.romaeducationfund.ro


Eugen Crai
Country Manager

eugen.crai@romaeducationfund.ro

Eugen Crai is the Country Manager of Roma Education Fund, Bucharest. He holds a Master’s degree in Law of McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and has completed several post-graduate studies in management and training in The Netherlands, UK, Denmark and Romania. Specialized in Human Rights Law and Anti-discrimination legislation (he also graduated several summer courses at Central European University Budapest), Eugen has been the Programme Manager of the first EU Phare Project for the Improvement of Roma Situation in Romania and has worked for 9 years with UNICEF Office in Romania as Education Officer and later as Social Policy Specialist. He was actively involved in Human Rights and minority rights advocacy and education policy development and advocacy in different capacities all along his professional career. Eugen has worked continuously in and for Roma communities from Romania for the past 14 years. Eugen Crai is also author and co-author of several articles and publications on issues of ethics & management, education and minority rights.


Adina Ursulean
PR and Logistics Coordinator

adina.ursulean@romaeducationfund.ro

Adina Ursulean graduated from the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest. In present she is enrolled into a Masters Course on Communication Campaigns, Advertising and Public Relations. From October 2010 she held the position of PR and Logistics Coordinator at Roma Education Fund, Bucharest Romania, prior to what she worked at a PR agency for various multi-national companies.


 
Ana Maria Cojocaru
Financial Manager

ana-maria.cojocaru@romaeducationfund.ro

Ana-Maria Cojocaru graduated the Faculty of Automatics within the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, holds a diploma of HR Analyst and also an MBA (Magna cum laudae) with the Romanian – Canadian MBA Programme. She has worked as a Senior Consultant and HR Manager for LARIVE Romania IBD, performing market research studies, business development plans, providing consultancy for M&A projects and headhunting. Starting with 1996 she was involved in PHARE Projects either as an expert or performing programme management on behalf of LARIVE. From 2002 until 2009 she worked as a long term expert in all PHARE Projects “Access to Education for Disadvantaged Groups” (PHARE 2001, 2003 and 2005) – Lot 2 Grant Scheme Management and also provided support for the PHARE 2004 Project. She was Procedures, Procurement and HRD Expert, Local Co-ordinator and in the PHARE 2005 she was Team Leader for both components of the Project, i.e. Institutional Building and Grant Scheme Management.


Cristi Mihalache
Project Manager

cristi.mihalache@romaeducationfund.ro

Cristi Mihalache is Project Manager of the Roma Education Fund Romania Foundation. He graduated the National School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest, Romania with a BA in Public Administration, and holds an MA degree in Human Rights from the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Currently he is a Ph D candidate with Faculty of Political Science of the University of Bucharest. Cristi has been involved in activities related to public relations, international advocacy, grant administration, capacity-building and training with organisations such as Romani CRISS, European Roma Rights Centre, and Open Society Institute. Also, Cristi has been involved in the programming process related to social inclusion actively contributing to the elaboration of the Joint Inclusion Memorandum and the National Development Plan 2007-2013 in Romania. He acted as as a consultant for the Management Authority for the Sectorial Operational Programme Human Resource Development (MA SOPHRD), the institution managing the European Social Fund in Romania, as well as for other Technical Assistance projects on issues related to social inclusion of Roma and other vulnerable groups. Beginning 2007, Cristi has acted as a consultant on EU structural funding for the Roma Education Fund.


Cristina Jitariu
Project Coordinator

cristina.jitariu@romaeducationfund.ro

Cristina holds a BA from the Faculty of Medicine, Iasi and a Masters Degree in Social and Health Services Management from the University of Bucharest. She has worked since 2004 in implementing social projects addressed to disadvantaged groups. Her experience is multiple (monitoring & evaluation, project management, training, evaluator, consultant in public health research, contribution to publications) in projects such as the National Tuberculosis Programme (Project Management Unit World Bank and Global Fund), increase of access to health services for Roma Communities (JSI / USAID), S.P.E.R. (PHARE), Study on access to health care of Roma population (Romani CRISS).



Florin Nasture
Programme Manager

florin.nasture@romaeducationfund.ro

Florin Nasture is a Romanian Roma. He graduated from the faculty of Theology and Philology, Bucharest University and has an MA in Strategic Management and Social Development. Since 1997 he has been actively involved with Roma Civil Society, working as a Program Coordinator for Romani CRISS and later as a Country Coordinator for the Pakiv European Roma Fund. He managed programs dealing with education, culture, and income-generating activities. He has an extended training and practice of community development.


Georgiana Barbulescu
Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator

georgiana.barbulescu@romaeducationfund.ro

Georgiana holds an MA in Human Rights at University College London and her previous work included implementing projects at PACT Foundation on integration of Roma on the labour market, on intercultural dialogue and on the EU Open Method of Coordination process on social inclusion. Among others, she worked at Save the Children Romania, Minority Rights Group International and Children’s Society in London, UK. She has a previous background in the private sector, working in PR agencies for multi-national companies.


Georgian Lunca
Logistics Coordinator

georgian.lunca@romaeducationfund.ro

Georgian made his first step in the human rights activism as a reporter of Roma News, the first press agency of Roma minority in Romania. After almost one year since graduating the Sociology and Social Work Faculty, University of Bucharest, he joined the Project on Ethnic Relations (PER) Regional Center for Central, East and Southeast Europe, where he brought his contribution to the good implementation of initiatives aiming to improve the interethnic climate and situation of ethnic groups from Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Former Yugoslavia.  During the last three years he has been actively involved in the media development activity of Medienhilfe, oriented to increasing the capacity of Roma media outlets to bring their contribution to the successful integration of Roma minority in Europe.


Ionela Cristea
Project Coordinator

ionela.cristea@romaeducationfund.ro

Ionela holds a BA from the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest and an MA in Human Resources Management at the same faculty. Since 2003 she has been actively involved with Roma civil society, working for “Impreuna” Agency. She has specific experience in implementing projects in the area of Youth, Volunteering and Education. She was also active member of the Roma community during her job as a consultant at Pricewaterhouse Coopers Romania.


Laura Greta Marin
Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator

laura.marin@romaeducationfund.ro

Native Romany speaker from Romania, Laura studied Law, Psychology and Community Development. She is involved in the NGO sector since 1999, working in projects addressed to Roma communities and other disadvantaged groups. Her fields of expertise are: training, community facilitation/development, strategic planning, project and organizational management, public policies, monitoring and evaluation (of projects and programs, public policies, etc). As expert in monitoring and evaluation she trained over 1000 public servants and NGO staff and took part in a number of technical assistance teams for implementing PHARE Projects in Romania. Laura is co-author of the “Monitoring and Evaluation System for Intervention Focused on Roma in Romania” - National Agency for Roma and General Secretariat of the Government, 2008.


Monica Florina Silaghi
Project Assistant

monica.silaghi@romaeducationfund.ro

Monica is a Roma from Romania graduated in Social Assistance, now enrolled in a Master Course on Public Policies in Social Assistance. Monica is active in the NGO sector since 2006, coordinating projects and programs regarding the improvement of the Roma children access in education, raising the access of the Roma communities members to social services, capacity building for Roma in relation with the public authorities, civic education for young Roma, etc.
In her activity she worked with a number of NGO, the most relevant: Ruhama Foundation, Impreuna Agency, FCSD, RSDF.

 Nicoleta Bosnigeanu

Country Coordinator for Romania

 nicoleta.bosnigeanu@romaeducationfund.ro

Nicoleta holds a BA degree in Philology from the University of Bucharest and a MA in Communication and Public Relations from the National School of Political and Administrative Studies. Since 2004 she has been working for non-governmental organisations and CSR departments as coordinator of educational and social programmes, addressed mainly to the disadvantaged groups and as developer of communication and PR campaigns. She started working with REF in April 2011 as Country Coordinator for the RMUSP scholarship programme in Romania.

Valentina Diana Gheoca
Procurement Expert

valentina.gheoca@romaeducationfund.ro

Valentina is the Procurement Expert in the Bucharest Roma Education Fund office and is involved in two of the ESF financed projects currently under implementation by the Romanian branch.  Valentina has studied Juridical and Administrative Law within the “Spiru Haret” University of Bucharest and has been working as a Procurement Expert and Bid Coordinator since 2006 for various multinational companies such as Poyry, Deloitte and Louis Berger. She has also been involved in several PHARE and ISPA projects as Project Manager or Procurement Expert.