The regional expert meeting Promoting the Right to Quality Education for Roma People, organized by the Ministry of Education of Serbia in cooperation with UNESCO, aimed to foster regional cooperation and identify key areas of action. 

The meeting was attended by eight Central and Eastern European countries and a number of teacher training institutions from Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine. Representatives of relevant international and regional organizations, among them the EWC (as a member of the Task Force on Roma Education) participated as well.

The meeting provided an opportunity to reaffirm the participants commitment towards the realization of the right to quality education for Roma people. It served also as a forum for an exchange of views on the challenges and on possible areas of action.