ROMANI LIVES is an initiative that aims to portray the lives of European Romanis in the XXI Century, fostering debate about the situation of the biggest ethnic minority in Europe and creating opportunities for them to reflect about their own situation and future. Romani Lives approaches the most unknown side of the current Roma society, showing a more modern view of this community and throughout an exhibition that combines, historic photography, documents, objects, contemporary photograph and avant-garde technology. The exhibit is completed with education programmes for children and young people, artist workshops, specialized seminars and a show with Roma artists’ performances.Bearing in mind the extraordinary potential of Romani Lives as a way to spread a modern image of Romani people, the proponents decided to work together in enlarging the scope of the project to the European context, in order to enrich the project with new perspectives from local Roma communities in different European countries and disseminating among international stakeholders the message of respect, cooperation and multiculturalism the project brings.For that reason and considering their local and international expertise in Roma issues, four non-profit institutions from Spain, Austria, Hungary and Portugal, specialized in Roma culture, have joined forces to develop this project. The main purpose is to take advantage of the work done and move forward with the vision of Roma communities in these four countries. The project tries to move away not only from the image of outsiders, strongly connected with poverty, but also from stereotypes that show Roma people like “free creative geniuses” only apt for dancing and music. Both images contribute to isolating Roma in current European society and do not show the real life of European citizens with Romani origin that attend school and university, hold jobs in public and private sectors, and are rarely travelers anymore.