Most of the existing adult education programs and bodies in Italy are not targeted to a specific population. There are some extemporaneous projects dedicated to the Roma, but these are also very few: at a national level we could not identify any comprehensive or continuous adult education program dedicated to the Roma.

One important direction, which currently involves adolescents more than adults, is the retake for young people who abandoned school but want to obtain the junior high school certificate. Although the experiences are numerous in various parts of the country, they are not specifically designed for the Roma population.

Some isolated examples of adult education for the Roma and Sinti in Emilia-Romagna region, where we carried out the research, are two Equal projects carried out between 2006 and 2008, with the purpose of increasing employment, an activity of adult training in the SRAP project (a course for Roma mediators) and an empowerment project working on entrepreneurship with Sinti women carried out in the framework of Spinner innovation program in Piacenza.

Although the examples of Roma and Sinti adult education programs are scarce, we can still gather some best practice, which will inform the development of the methodology for the Finally training:

• The involvement and constant support of all local stakeholders in organizing and implementing training;
• Attention to the exploitation of the produced material and competences in order to ensure continuity of intervention;
• Active participation of Roma and Sinti in the design and implementation of training programs;
• Use of methodologies that facilitate participation and empowerment;
• Collaboration between different professional figures, especially the use of Roma and Sinti mediators.