Heroines

At a Prix Ars Electronica Award Ceremony, held in Design Centre Linz (Austria), on September 4, 2025, HEROINE-Heritage of Emancipation: Empowering Roma Women through Networks of Solidarity project team was awarded the prestigious EU Grand Prize for Citizen Science for 2025. This highest recognition in the field of citizen scienc...

The “HEROINE - Heritage of Emancipation: Empowering Roma Women through Networks of Solidarity” project, organised by the SASA Institute of Ethnography in collaboration with the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade and the Roma Women Centre “Bibija”, is the recipient of the Grand Prize awarded by the EU Prize for Citizen...

The team of the "Heroine" project is pleased to announce the publication of the Manual for Mapping Women's Emancipation. This is one of the results of the project Heritage of Emancipation: Empowering Roma Women through Building Networks of Solidarity (HEROINE), implemented by the Institute of Ethnography of the Serbian Academy o...

On March 26, 2025, in the "AVA" Hall of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA), the promotion of the "Heroines" project and the celebration of 20 years of the Roma Women's Network of Serbia took place.In the first part of the program, the numerous attendees and media representatives had the opportunity to watch a docume...

On Monday, December 2, 2024, the Ethnographic Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA) was visited by Dr. Bojan Konig, Advisor for International Cooperation at the Center for the Promotion of Science (CPN). The discussion focused on the "Heroines" project, which is being implemented by the Ethnographic Instit...

On Monday, November 18, 2024, a meeting took place at the Institute of Ethnography SASA between the project team members from the IE SASA and the Roma Women's Center "Bibija" from Belgrade, who are jointly implementing the HEROINES project, and representatives of the UN Trust Fund. The visit was part of an official monitoring mi...

On Tuesday, October 22, 2024, the Institute of Ethnography SASA hosted a working meeting with partner organizations involved in the HEROINE project. Attendees included members of the Institute’s project team, the Roma Women’s Center "Bibija" from Belgrade, the “Successful Women” Association from Kostolac, and the “Ternipe” Assoc...

The paper “Community Mapping Methodology – Researching the Heritage of the Romani Women Emancipation” was published in the second volume of the international scientific journal Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA. This paper presents the relatively new – in local framework of humanities rarely applied – method of commu...

The project "HEROINE - The Heritage of Emancipation: Empowering Roma Women Through Networks of Solidarity" was presented at the Tenth Conference on Cooperation of Culture and Education “If I were Someone – The Strength of the Community. This very important conference, which was held in Belgrade from June 28th to July 3rd of the...

During June, the first phase of mapping the heritage of women emancipation in Roma communities was carried out. The collection of data was created through work in focus groups in three cities - Kostolac, Belgrade and Pirot. The moderators of the focus group discussions were members of the Citizens' Association "Successful women"...

The project "Heritage of Emancipation: Empowering of Roma Women through Networks of Solidarity (HEROINES)" - conducted by the SASA Ethnographic Institute in cooperation with the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade and the Roma Women's Center "Bibija" - focuses on the issue of the emancipation of Roma women in Serbia, using a metho...

On the May 25th and 26th 2024, the third training for citizens dedicated to the principles and methodology of mapping the heritage of women's emancipation was held in Pirot, in the premises of the "Ternipe" Citizens' Association. In the first workshop, the concept of emancipation and community mapping methodology were emphasized...

In the premises of the Roma Women's Center "BIBIJA" in Belgrade, on May 11th and 13th, 2024, a second training for citizens dedicated to the principles and methodology of mapping the heritage of women's emancipation was held. Future moderators of focus group discussions were introduced to the concept of emancipation, community m...

First training - Community Mapping of Women Emancipation, took place on 22nd and 25th of April 2024 at the Office for Roma Issues, GO Kostolac. The training focused on the community mapping principles and methods adjusted to the topic of women emancipation. First segment of the training provided the future moderators with the co...

On March 27th, the third partner meeting was held in Belgrade between organizations participating in the implementation of the project Heritage of Emancipation: Empowering Roma Women through Networks of Solidarity. Members of the HEROINES project team together with Ivan Đorđević, the project coordinator, presented the general id...

Second local partners’ meeting of the Heritage of Emancipation: Empowering Roma Women through Networks of Solidarity (HEROINES), project took place in Pirot, between 18th and 20th of March. Members of the HEORINES team talked with the representatives of the civil organization „Ternipe“ from Pirot. Ivan Đorđević PhD, project lead...

In the period from March 11th to 13th, 2024, the project Heritage of Emancipation: Empowering Roma Women through Networks of Solidarity (HEROINES) team members stayed in Kostolac, where the first local partnership meeting was held with the Roma women's organization "Successful Women of Kostolac". Members of the HEROINES team pre...

Yesterday, in the premises of the Institute of Ethnography SASA, the first working meeting of the partner organizations implementing the HEROINE project was held. This was an opportunity for all project team members, led by Ivan Đorđević, the project manager, to get to know each other and agree on further activities foreseen in...

On Tuesday, December 26, at the National Museum of Belgrade, awards were given to citizen science research projects that received funds for their implementation at the First National Public Call of the Center for the Promotion of Science. The project of the SASA Institute of Ethnography “Heritage of Emancipation: Empowering Roma...

We are pleased to inform that the project of the SASA Institute of Ethnography Heritage of Emancipation: Empowering Roma Women through Networks of Solidarity (HEROINES) received funds for its implementation at the “Public call for citizen science research projects” announced by the Center for The Promotion of Science. We are par...