Special colleges are a Hungarian specialty in the sense that, although higher educational institutions for students with special skills exist worldwide, the social awareness and responsibility of Hungarian special colleges in addition to their professional profile is a their special characteristic, obviously because of their historical and political background as well. Special colleges have considered the problems of Roma communities and the detrimental socio-cultural indexes in which the proportion of the Roma is extraordinarily over-represented within the entire population an important social problem, but no comprehensive program has been implemnted in this respect apart from scientific research and some casually achieved civil initiatives.
Resilience in the case of the Roma would mean, in my opinion, the successful education of a Roma intelligentsia with a diverse scientific background which could indeed become the voice of the community and off er authentic answers for the rightful needs of the Roma community that would help finding the middle way between keeping their cultural identity and sufficient social integration. Th e European Union’s resilience policy hardly focuses on the most vulnerable groups, since these social groups are indeed on the edge of breaking off, and resilience for them is not further development but the precondition of their survival as a community.
My paper is a case-study treating at scientific standards the operation and experiences of the Jesuit Roma Special College, both on the basis of the literature, and interviews with the leaders and undergraduate and graduate college students.
Keywords: Roma communities, proffesional profile, policy of resilience

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