The 29th National Gathering of Environmental and Nature Conservation Organizations was held in Budapest between May 31 and June 2, 2019. This year the large-scale event was organized in an extraordinary way, together by the community of green CSOs. Ökotárs also took part in the work: among other things, we hosted a workshop on "Urban Green Areas and Communities" in our office on Friday afternoon. The workshop was built on our decades of experience in green space development initiatives involving local communities. In addition to our own activities, we gave good and bad examples of greening projects with the help of our past and current contributors and partners, and discussed what makes community planning good, how people's involvement works, and the consequences of skipping it. We also introduced the Tree of the Year competition and our LIFE TreeCheck project, which we are implementing in partnership with our Czech sister foundation and which aims to reduce the urban heat island effect by developing and utilizing green infrastructure.
