Assoc. Martin Kaleja has gradually gained his professional experience as an educator and researcher at Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic), University of ваstava (Czech Republic), Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia), and Hellenic University in Opava (Czech Republic). Faculty of Public Policy and Associate Professor at the Center for Empirical Research.

He is also a member of the Board of the Czech Government on Roma Issues, chairing the Education Committee.

Otherwise, he spent his childhood and his teenage years in a Roma neighborhood near Presov in the east of Slovakia and still had a desire to be a teacher.

During his education and career, Kaleja faced prejudice in elementary school.

Kaleja believes that a growing number of Roma are completing higher education in this part of the world and that it is not a dramatic jump from day to day, but rather an intense process.

Looking at life today and his perspective is: “And after all today when a skinhead gets into a tram and looks for a certain person, he will find it. It can hardly be explained to such a person that I am an associate professor who teaches at a school. "

The Government of the Slovak Republic took note on 25 June 2019 of the "Monitoring Report on the Fulfillment of the Strategy of the Slovak Republic for Romani Integration to 2020", which monitors the fulfillment of the activities and measures outlined in the Action Plans for the Strategy in the areas of education, employment, financial inclusion, health, housing, non-discrimination and Romani community approaches toward the majority society during 2018, and which was undertaken by the Office of the Slovak Government Plenipotentiary for Romani Communities in association with the ministries and submitted to the Government by the Interior Minister. Of 154 activities and measures designed to be fulfilled during 2018, the Office of the Plenipotentiary assessed 85 as "fulfilled", or "about to be fulfilled", 54 as "underway" and 15 as "unfulfilled".

Almost EUR 120 million was spent last year on Romani integration in Slovakia. The investment was especially about activities to increase Romani employability and employment (EUR 75 million), educational activities (EUR 30 million) and the area of housing (EUR 7 million).

Link: http://www.romea.cz/en/news/world/slovak-plenipotentiary-for-romani-communities-we-will-focus-on-education-and-employment