ROMA-NeT URBACT II project was established to create a new approach to stimulate information sharing and development across the complex Roma integration policy and operational environment in nine European cities.Now six of the nine cities gathered in a delivery phase of ROMA-NeT that will continue the participatory approach working with key local stakeholders as they move forward with local delivery of the Roma inclusion action plans focusing on improved access to education, health, housing, services and to stimulate employment opportunities for working age Roma. We will use transnational exchange to build local, national and European policy influencing capacity and to strengthen local implementation management and monitoring structures.Roma-NeT II project builds on the outcome and results of the Roma-NeT URBACT II project that aimed to motivate cities to develop integrated local actions plans to improve local service delivery towards Roma populations by making services more accessible, by motivating more active participation from Roma communities and by introducing new interventions. By the end of the implementation phase ROMA-NeT LSG members learned a lot about the core themes of Roma inclusion and about the need for a step by step integrated approach, for partnership working and for active involvement of Roma and LSGs in all nine cities each had created a local action plan, approved by local authorities. The local action plans set out the priorities and future local actions that would be generated to tackle Roma exclusion and motivate more active Roma involvement in their localities.The implementation phase of ROMA-NeT ended in January 2013 and since then partners have been progressing with implementation of local actions. The approaches applied are different in each city, but all focus on the issues of supporting and improving access to education, health, housing, services and to stimulate employment opportunities for working age Roma. The local support groups have continued to meet in the partner cities. A core action for each is to motivate active involvement of Roma people in the local support groups and in the creation of local service responses.Though the European and national framework improved a lot during the past few years more efforts are needed to translate these into concrete local actions and once a local action plan is created to ensure delivery of actions, active engagement of stakeholders. The new programming period offers new opportunities and cities want to explore innovative actions and CLLD and other European programmes to improve project management, monitoring capacities and consolidate new governance structures.Key point of focus:A next phase of ROMA-NeT will provide the opportunity to build project management capacity and to review and revise local operational structures to ensure they underpin future implementation. The institutional members of the LSGs should become enablers and brokers for public administration and funders working together with NGO members who should become the real bridge into the community with a multiplier role.Our previous experience with URBACT (observers in URBACT I and LP in URBACT II) was a very good motivation to stay tuned…. The URBACT methodology, the dedicated support of the Secretariat, not to mention the vast knowledge of the partner ctities, the supportive and creative environment created by our LE and thematic experts are all carrots that we could not resist.We will share our results and learning not only with the URBACT community, but with as many European cities as possible. All the partners and Local Support Group members will benefit from the transnational exchanges and they will use this knowledge for the benefit of the local community. Achievements: Documents/reports:romanetiifinalreportfinal.pdf09/03/2015URBACT 2 Event Programme27/02/2015agendabologna2015.pdf13/02/2015More documents and information is available under:http://urbact.eu/roma-net-ii