The number of youth is permanently decreasing in Nógrád County. 30-50% graduates in secondary schools, only 15% of them get diploma and the rest of them are unemployed, inactive and depend on their families. 10% of the inhabitants are Roma who live mostly in villages. The educational system does not consider the needs of the age group and uses ineffective methods. The objective of the project is to adopt new methods that are flexible according to the learning styles, interests and specialties of individuals and groups. The competencies of participants will be developed, they will have suitable network and resources, and also they will be able to realize initiatives. The project aims to train the members of the organizations to be coaches, develop online training modules, realize campaigns and job shadowing programs. The participants will have the chance to realize initiations based on their own ideas. The project involves about 5000 youth from Balassagyarmat, Salgótarján and Szécsény subregion.
Groundwater and public debate was pushed into the background at the programs being implemented based on EU's Water Framework Directive and the related decree of the Parlament. Reflex wants to reach the local protection of groundwaters and ecological farming in Lower-Szigetköz and the Pápa microregion. Thus they initiate networking among the settlements of these regions and involve them in the preparation of the second River Basin Management Plan. They also organize conferences and fora about water, collects ownership, environmental and legal data, give trainings for stakeholders and create films and publications and implement local actions.
A local association organizes a tematic female art action program at the old military base of Zsámbék which symbolzes masculine power. The association aims to feminise the place making it more comfortable and more equal for the creators and the audience. They show the woman-face of the surrounding antidemocratic tendencies and actual civil wars and the provide alternatives for microcommunities for women to exercise preassure on power by way of shaping consciousness and creating alliances. For this the organizers collect the stories of local women, turn them into theater performances and play them during a one week action program. This one week program will be accompanied by mini projects of local people (amateur art activities, lifestyle and health education programs, hikings, psychodrama, exhibition, etc.)
There are approximately 10.000 people with Down-syndrome living in Hungary. The organisations representing them and their families are individually too weak to represent their interests. The goal of the project is to build a country-wide network by strengthening the relationship between the organisations. The network is built on common experiences and lobby power, thus it can effectively advocate for the interests of people with Down syndrome and their families. The project is built on the cooperation of the involved civil organisations and informal parents’ groups, who are essential in making the network efficient.
In Hungary just few Roma NGO are operating, thus the advocacy power of Roma civil society is weak. Due to their vulnerable situation Roma people are often victims of the increasing extremity, hate speech and atrocities. There is a need for cooperation between the Roma NGOs, but they cannot realize it in an institutionalized form. The objective is to increase the defense of Roma society against extremities. The project aims to support Roma civic organizations by transferring knowledge about sustainability. Organizations will be able to maintain themselves and realize a cooperative network with an active community. They will be able to share their experience, support each other and continuously learn. They will establish a Regional Coordinating Office and an informative portal, plan the steps of development, hold trainings, workshops and conferences thus their network will be up-to-date, they will be able to apply to tenders and implement projects. The project involves about 178 Roma communities and approx. 30 organizations in Western Transdanubia.
There is a lack of effective policy on the integration problems of Roma youth in Hungary. The school system faces a complex task with the Roma students, because of the failure caused by the frontal school system the Roma students cannot keep up the syllabus thus they lose their ability to proactively participate in activities. The goal of the organization is to increase the socialization and attention sőan of children. Verbal skills will be developed and perspective thinking method will be evolved. The participating schools and the minority organizations will be able to implement the projects. The cooperation between communities and schools will provide the background of sustainability. The planned activities are mentoring - skill and competency development with drama pedagogy methods -, leadership-training weekends, summer-time art camp and trainings. The target group is youth in ten disadvantaged small towns, teachers who feel affinity for art education: approx. 35-40 persons. The youth of Miskolc who have desire for change (200-250 persons), as well as representatives of active minority communities who are prepared to operate amateur art groups (35-40 persons).
There is no legal and financial structure or sustainable solution for development of socially disadvantaged groups. Small civil initiatives are not able to reach sustainability by themselves. In the past few decades social farms were set up in some countries as successful links between social and agriculture areas. Norway was the first to develop strategies for social farms. Symbiosis now wants to adapt good practices and develop the legal and financial support structure of Hungarian social farms in the civil sector. The organizers involved several partners from different fields and they aim to activate local organizations through regional workshops. They also develop a website (www.szocialisfarm.hu) to share knowledge; set up the national Social Farm Association; develop educational material on social farming; organize two trainings for 30 people and a country-level conference; start intensive dialogue with ministries so as to launch legislation procedure for social farms.
The goal of this project is to support the dissemination of waste-poor practices, environmentally and socially conscious lifestyle. The association aims to reach these goals through local actions (zero waste actions, garage sales), with an info-database for citizens, developing civil capacity, participation in local and national decision-making and implementation and through involving educational institutions.
In order to strengthen the social base of NGOs, we believe they should significantly increase their public awareness and the involvement of private donors in their activities. Adjukössze is a tool, which has already proven its worth. NIOK's website has been successfully used by NGOs, who were open for new tools and ready to involve communities. However, most organizations need to be mentored, trained and receive communication support to be able to use this tool. In cooperation with NGOs and experts, NIOK has implemented campaigns and developed a practical communication and fundraising toolkit to support their work. NIOK's goal is that the majority of NGOs using the website to be grass root organizations and those working with socially excluded people that have not had success in fundraising before. They also involve the NGOs that have already been successful in campaigns before in the knowledge transfer, which will give organizations a highly developed toolkit.
According to recent researches more than 100.000 children and young people are taken to educational theatre programmes in Hungary every year (programs that offer discussion or dramatic games before, after or during the theatrical performance). Teachers and parents can choose from more than 170 different programss and they do not have too much support in that. FÜGE wants to develop a community based webpage where the creators of educational theatre programmes can update the description of their programs regularly; children and youth, parents, teachers and professionals can comment and peer-evaluate these. This would help the parents and teachers in responsible decision making. The webpage would be a hybrid of a professional portal and a community page, which connects some 150 theatres with participants, their parents and teachers.
The latency of child sexual abuse is huge in Hungary. The social welfare system focuses on the problems and doesn't do prevention at all. The organization wants to adapt a succesful Icelandic child protection program. It is based on civilians, involves parents, teachers and social professionals and supports them to detect the physical and psychological signs of child sexual abuse and teach them how they can react and take prevention steps. This program enchances trust among teachers, parents and social workers and strengthens awareness about prevention. 10 volunteers will be trained to be trainers who will educate 150 adults in 15 groups focusing on teachers, parents in 50 schools around the country. This action will strenghten the bilateral cooperation among civilians and child protection services.
The alliance wants to provide support for social workers in handling domestic violence and child abuse cases. They need an unequivocal guide about the procedure they have to follow when recognizing such cases and support from the ethical point of view. These would help the situation of the clients as well as the social workers who are also vulnerable themselves. The main activities: renewing the social workers’ Code of Ethics; organizing seminars; editing a methodological guidance for social workers working for family help care centers or children’s welfare services. At SocExpo they will summarize and exchange the results of the project and an online exchange-of-experience forum will be maintained as well.
The project’s aim is to prepare Roma NGOs to use basic legal aid tools so they can respond to infringements against their community and advance their interests more efficiently. As a result of a more conscious approach towards infringements, increased legal aid capacities and their widespread communication, these NGOs will become important factors locally. The attitudes of those responsible for committing violations will also change and infringements will decrease. During the project training moduls and practical guides are compiled for local legal aid activities and 10 local legal aid activists are trained and mentored. The organizers respond to infringements against local communities in partnership with these activists. The project will directly reach 10 local Roma NGOs but its methodology and results will be useful for the nearly 300 other Roma NGOs in Hungary as well as organizations working with other vulnerable groups.
The foundation explores the labour market difficulties of women raising children with disabilities. Based on the survey the organizers develop integrative labour market services by focusing on individual support and career-guidance. They involve professional organizations, employers, decision makers and stakeholders in creating the integrative labour-market service modell. They exchange know-how on a network level with organizations of the NÓRA-NETWORK. Communication, social media and advocacy trainings will be organized as well for the active communities of the target group.
In Hungary an extreme number of children live in bad housing conditions that affects their health as well. The number of these children is growing year by year, and their living conditions are getting worse and worse.
The 3 days long action presents an installation in Budapest, which displays the living conditions of the children living in housing poverty. The goal iwa to raise awareness and influence the decision makers to create effective policies. During the 3 days several thousands of people saw the installation, where decision makers and celebrities were invited and through a Facebook app the online audience was involved as well.
The majority of rural civic organizations cannot satisfy their own and their clients’ legal needs. Without legal support they can their advocacy capacity remains weak, they can not follow the fast changing legal environment and so on. Based on the Pro Bono center in Budapest PILnet now creates four regional pro bono platform to serve the needs of rural NGOs. They want to connect the lawyers, las firms and las schools/students with the rural NGOs. With the help of the Hungarian Bar Association rural lawyers are going to be activated as well. PILnet will also mobilize it's corporate relationships from Budapest to support regional human right and Community law issues.
Because of the ineffectiveness of the Roma advocacy it is very important for the Roma youth to become active, democratic citizens who are responsible for themselves and their community. The key element for development is education, which help Roma youth to gain knowledge and tools – such as a diploma. 30 secondary school Roma students will take part in the development in the project. The young Roma are mentored by Roma university students, who share their own examples and provide personal support to the mentored. This will help the secondary school students to study further after completing secondary education and become conscious, active citizens. The program is built on the cooperation and activity of the young people. The participation of the youth, besides the development, will also be important in the communication of the initiative (writing of news and summaries, making of videos), since they are the people who are best suited to convey their message about themselves and their work to the mainstream society and the civil sector.
Due to the juidical and police data the strict regulation and the change of the law became the tools to punish poor people. Several reports confirmed that mainly roma families, whom living in deep poverty is punished by the authorities the most. Roma Press Center (RPC) and the partners of RPC (HCLU, CFCF, Helsinki Committee) get several news and stories about this phenomenon: for example- while poor people collecting twig or wood in the forest during winter time, the police arrest them and take them into prison for weeks. In the next months, it is very sure, that this method will be more intensive. The aim of this project is to draw the attention of the public and the decision makers that there is no financial or social-economic sense in separating poor families. The organizors want to show that deep poverty is not a criminal case, rather a social issue. During the project they will keep watching the most affected settlements and they will collect the information and stories in a database.
The tools of the campaign are:
A common database about the punishments and infographics
Cost effectiveness analyses
Watch-dog activity- reports on the most absurd cases
Prize for the most absurd local law makers
Collecting the good practises
The campaign aimed to reduce the support of extremist ideas among ordinary people, by overshadowing the one-dimensional thinking about the Roma population. It is well known that the image of the Roma population in the mainstream media is distorted: focused to the poverty and the crime, on the “positive” side there are only pop musicians. This image is affect not only the majority but the Roma population itself who socialised by the same mainstream media. The lack of positive image inhibits the paths of personal success as well as obstruct the emergence of a strong Roma movement too.
During our 6 months long campaign the organizers want to show that:
1.Despite slipping to the periphery for 25 years, the Roma population is still an integral part of the Hungarian society.
2.Living in poorness is not equal to waiting for the benefits. There are several survivor technics which help the Roma people to generate a daily income for their family.
In the campaing ordinary and extraordinary Roma people were introduced who are successful in their profession, for example: baker, bus driver, factory director, etc.
The public has little influence on land use plans. Public participation in the adoption procedures is formal, legal remedies are not developed. Civil society does not have appropriate knowledge and capacities, local attorneys often refuse to help. The project seeks to make NGOs and private persons capable of participating in land use and permitting procedures as well as public participation to become an essential part of the local decision-making. In terms of activities and outputs the project promoter will collect and analyze local conflicts, provide legal consultancy service, reconciliate between the parties, organize legal advocacy days for the public on relevant spots, compile a handbook/guide in the relevant procedures, set up an interactive webpage with all materials, as well as submit proposals to the legislator and decision-makers of the municipalities and state bodies.
There is a very large group of lonely people above 40 years old and single-living disabled people. According to data from 2011, there are more than one million people aged over 40, living alone. 16.6% of the population have chronic diseases, 70% of them are aged over 50. The Afternoon Association operates an anonym help-line, targeting the above social groups. Their problems are mainly due to painful loneliness and their desire for social and love relationships.
The aim of the project is to ease the isolation and painful loneliness of the target group, therefore improving the quality of their life.
The creation of a dating website will offer free, secure, interactive meeting opportunities with additional functions (phone help-line, personal meeting space) that supports the creation of social bonds.
The project offers professional development opportunity for the volunteers of the Afternoon Association, while partnering organizations will be able to offer a new service needed by many of their members as well.
Districts of Budapest VIII.-IX. are the districts of underprivileged Roma children with the problem of social exclusion, racial discrimination, and unequal opportunities. The Theatre aims to help local roma talents and also to increase the roma social integration and equal opportunities. Target groups are the child actors of the TEÁT-ROM and their family members, indirectly relatives, and the audience of the plays. The project increases motivation, interpersonal and communication skills and the roma identity of the group and cooperation in families. It is also expected that prejudice will decrease and solidarity increases.
The goal of the project is to improves advocacy work through common national campaigns and through strengthening the Hungarian Anti Poverty Network(HAPN). The organizers also introduce community organizing based on the involvement of the poor people. The activities are mobilization of the professional and activist resources of the organizations in and around HAPN in order to have a wide basis for further actions. The involved organizations will participate on trainings, study trips and through a pilot project to learn the community organizing approach. Complex campaigns will be organized as well around the topic of employment and minimum wage with participation of the involved organizations. 100 people will be involved directly and at least 1000 indirectly through other organizations.
The target group is those 20 communities/organizations who are interested in advocacy community work (half of them are HAPN members). Our partner is the EAPN Norway.
The most recent changes in the system of municipal representation in Budapest, resulting in the inequality of the vote, make the project necessary; municipal elections taking place in October guarantee its timeliness. elements of the campaign were an interactive launch event, an ironic campaign homepage directing users to a call for action, a complaint template addressed and sent to the ombudsman, fb-games and offline materials, dissipation of outcomes to the target group and beyond.
The primary goal was to mobilize young voters of Budapest against the inequal voting rights. This goal was fulfilled bexond expectations: 168 complaints were sent to the ombdsman through the call-to-action website. Another goals was to promote other forms of political participation (institution of complaint) beyond voting that was also fulfilled.
The foundation promotes tolerance and reduces the conflicts and hate speech in 3 primary schools in lagging towns, inhabited by a large number of Roma people. The participating students will be active participants in an art performance they create, they take part in interactive lectures and a two-day cultural event and they will learn from each other and help each other in the activities. The methodology can easily be passed to local schools, and it can be extended to national level as well.
Racist hate speech has become widespread and has even creeped into the courtrooms in Hungary. The immediate urgency of the project was spurred by the judgement of the Békés County Court of March 27 2014, which condoned the the anti-Roma hate speech according to which there is "Gypsy criminality." The objective of the project is to facilitate active citizenship, that is, active speaking out against hate speech, raising public awareness, and exercising public pressure for concrete political measures.
Participants of the actions sent postcards and e-cards to Erika Mucsi judge, Viktor Orbán prime minister, Zoltán Balog and Tibor Navracsics ministers. The cards called on the judge to publicly apologize from her Roma compatriots and asked the representatives of the government to step up against hate speech and not to tolerate hate speech among officials who exercise public authority.
Segregation of Roma children is widespread in Hungary, desegregation is based on either a court decision or a political will, there is no example for widespread local civil support of integration. CFCF will build the capacity of 4 local communities consisting of Roma and nonRoma parents who are willing to speak up and enforce their rights through community actions (transferring to integrated schools,petition for schoolbus) or with the help of a probono lawyer launch lawsuits against segregation. The goal is to develop a model program and disseminate it among NGOs and to increase the number of Roma students taking part in integrated education.The target groups are Roma students, their parents non roma students, lawyers and students willing to volunteer for a common cause, the general public, local and central stakeholders in education.
In Nyíregyhaza several public building is not accessible with baby stroller or wheelchair. The supported organization aims to support the daily routine of mothers and disabled people by promoting the accessible buildings. Hopefully it will be a prestige to become accessible and that will inspire others to improve their buildings and become barrier-free. The organizors also want to encourage barrier-free buildings improve their service, thus becoming more suitable for those who want to use it.
The target groups are institutions, shops, which doesn't have suitable access yet, especially customer service offices with many visitors.
The association puts great emphasis on supporting the interest representation and social integration of people with disabilities, as well as on forming social attitudes. Educating children for being tolerant and the better social integration of people with disabilities are two goals that reinforce each other. Kindergarten children experience empathy at an early age through tale therapy and the presence of assistance dogs. Volunteers of the association show the everyday life of hearing, visually, mentally impaired or handicapped people or people living with autism. They organise a conference on assistance dogs and social integration for experts in the field. They form the attitudes of the broader society by involving media, creating a website and a film. They cooperate with ELTE Bárczy Gusztáv Faculty of Special Education, with kindergartens and other assistance dog organisations in implementing programs.
There has been an increasing tendency of hate incidents in Hungary with the intensifying activity of radical movements. The actions are against local Roma people in most of the cases. This project prepares the police commanders to treat ethnical conflicts or provocation properly. It also sends a positive message about the engagement of Roma people in society as law enforcement workers.
The organizers elaborate the methods of the special training and protocol with the contribution of the Hungarian National Police and the experts of the Norwegian Police. The campaign part og the project communicates that many Roma people have been serving for the law enforcement agencies and the police encourages Roma youth to join the police. At the end of the project it is expected that the Hungarian Police will be much more prepared for professional treatment of hate incidents and the picture about Romas in society will be better as well.
In Kecskemét there are several community places operating, where socially underpriviliged children and young people can go. These places offer a wide variety of programs free of charge, they are easily accessible. Two of these places has reported problems that the young visitors are loosing motivation and act deviant. Karitasz Foundation will organize interactive workshops, peer helper trainings and other programs to enable the young visitors of the places in solving their communities' problems.
The aim of the organisation is to improve the employment chances of people living with autism by trainings, employment and the production of high quality products. Within the project young people with autism will receive practical training. They learn individual crafts and the production of artefacts with 3D technology. The long term goal of the project is to employ young people with autism in the framework of a social entrepreneurship and to focus attention on the employment of people with disabilities.
The association wants to introduce a new membership model and to develop the organization. They would like to achieve that the members become active participants, organizors and decision makers of the association. Also the new members will be able to organize events ion their neighborhood on their own. The project consists of membership programs, research and the development of 10 other associations and the association itself.
Light pollutative lamps has been placed in a huge amount in cities and settlements. The National Park of Bükk is the most diverse national park of Hungary, covered almost 100% with forests. The association aims to reduce light pollution in order to protect the natural values, specially the animals in this area. The main target groups are decision makers, settlement leaders and opinion leaders as they don1t know about the problem. Thus the association measures the light pollution and the light pollutants in the settlements of Bükk and they will organize awarreness raising night astronomy presentations. The collected data is being presented through fora and other channels to the public and the decision makers thus intitating dialogue about the topic.
The consumer society lifestyle and supply system produce more and more unhealthier, alienated families, living in extreme situations. The goal is to create a 100-family cooperative community as a sample, which combines the traditional values of the village lifestyle with novel environmental and health aspects. In the project a ‘Kindness Circle’ is created for friendly exchange of tools and sparetime capacity, supported by a web interface. The swap of equipments and free time will motivate the personal relationship-building. The virtual accounts (‘suska’) ensure the fairness and sustainability of the system. Authentic human relationships are created within the community, generating further cooperation and strengthening social safety net (integration), approaching self-supporting, ‘greener’ lifestyle.
Told - where the project is taking place - is one of the least developed villages in Hungary. The people here, regardless they are Roma or not, have hardly any opportunity to find a job, or become successful citizens. They need to become the members of a community, which starts to do something to develop their life. The foundation has been working with them for some years in order to empower them in the different fields of life. In the local community the women have key role in the surging community. The project wants to help them to be more conscious and effective in their life. They ensure trainings and community events, which focus on main issues in the lives of these women: household, economic planning, domestic violence, handling of conflicts and conscious family planning. During the project 30 Roma and non Roma women's skills, self-conscious and their community is developed. They organize events and excursions and they communicate about their life and points of views through the channels of the citizen's media. They can prove themselves their family and the wider society, that their activity can shape our future.
Appropriate therapeutic methods are often not available for children with disabilities and their families that could ensure the development of the young people – due to either geographical or financial reasons, or because it does not fit into the everyday lives of the families. In the frame of the project therapeutic products will be created from used textiles and distributed among disadvantaged children with disabilities and their parents, which can be easily used and remade, even at the home of the families and is cost efficient. During the project, they will provide services for 100 involved persons and 40 families, and will provide further knowledge related to the therapeutic tools and methodology to 13 organisations. Several activities will be realised in small settlements of Baranya County, where similar services are not available to the locals. The methods and the results will be disseminated to the general public as well as to specialists through a national media campaign.
The Climate Alliance has two levels of cooperation: besides the national networking activities the local community groups are essential where the member NGOs cooperate with local municipalities. The goal of CA is to establish the local autonomy of municipal communities and decrease their environmental pollution with the help pf local NGOs. In this project local community circles are developed with 6 member NGOs and at least 12 municipalities. The circles create their own practical strategy and implement it in small steps. The local decision makers and multiplicators are trained as well in theory and in practice and the tree of the year will be planted in 20 member municipalities’ territory.
Abortion tourism is already an existing phenomena, but its presence reveals the political currents of the right-to-bodily-autonomy of citizens from different states. Unlike other kinds of health tourism driven by economic reasons, abortion tourism is about politics, caused by particular modes of governance having an impact on health policy. In Hungary medical interventions and monitoring are pushed on healthy women, despite scientific evidence, and ignoring the right for informed consent. Abortion is legal, but not the abortion pill, so women often choose to become abortion tourists- if they have the necessary capital to do so.
The organization establishes novel encounters and pathways, where information can be transmitted via novel use of existing media, in order to bypass preconceptions. They do not aim to do political lobbying, they want to reach the citizens themselves via online media and public events, to share information without dictating a new set of norms.
The initative aims to enhance the blind-friendly accessibility of shops in Csongrád county. The organizers develop and introduce a "Blind friendly store" classification system. By granting the certificate vulnerability of visually impaired customers will be reduced and consumer safety will be significantly increased. The members of the association will be prepared to do the classification and they will visit the shops. Those which pass will receive a certification. It is also planned to extend the certification on a national level.
By building a fruit processing plant and organizing programs about fruit farming and processing the foundation wants to develop fruit farming in four villages of the Ormánság.Tthe foundation has good contacts with other organizations in the topic of adaptive fruit farming. The target group of the project are 25-30 poor families (half of them Roma) of the four villages. They cooperate with the Carpathian Orcharding Network, with local NGOs and municipalities.
There is no survey in Esztergom to assess drug consumption in the city and its neighbourhood. The 2013 report of the National Drug Focus Point shows the highest ratio of crime related to of drug abuse in this County. However the city did not have drug ambulance or other assistances, such as community based or low-threshold services. The aim of the project is to fill this gap at least partly, and provide addiction consultancy services in Esztergom.
The project targets both the enforcement of democratic values (transparency, participation, accountability) and the environmental and social sustainability, and the development of the civil sector. The new Paks nuclear block is a significant national issue, in which collaboration, capacity building and networking is a priority in order to enforce democratic rights and sustainability. Therefore the major target group is the environmental and youth organizations, through whom the civic activity can increase. The general public has no information about the Paks issue, they have been excluded from decision-making, thus the Energy Club will request data and reviews the decision-making process through national and international legal forums. The acquired information will be disseminated nationally and on EU level, by cooperating with NGOs, and by organizing forums and campaigns. The NGOs will be trained in their participatory skills, and they will be able to increase citizens' interest in public affairs.
The primary focus of the foundation is to offer therapy for children with special and additional needs. Recently, however, several victims of domestic violence who are single mothers of children with special needs asked help from the foundation. Violence makes a lasting impact on women: they are often faced with the struggles of financial difficulties, low self-esteem, legal misinformation and gender inequality. Inspired by the Norwegian MARTE program, the foundation aims to provide assistance for divorced women who were touched by the painful legacy of domestic violence. Beyond the legal, financial and psychological aspects of advising, the foundation is also dedicated to raising public awareness of common misconceptions about domestic violence. The applied methods of the program are community building, thematic weekends and self-help groups. The organizors built the training programs and database in co-operation with several professional associations.
Radio Tilos has created a new program called Civilisation to provide opportunity for less visible NGOs and programs to introduce themselves. They invited program makers on eight week rotation basis who can regularly work with the organizations of a given sector. An important goal of the show is to convince the listeners: it is good to be civil! The radio promotes the program on several platforms, they have created mobil app as well. Besides the regular program all NGOs are invited to have a booth at the fundraising festival of Tilos.
The possibilities to spend free time together for people living with disabilities and the healthy are very limited. The reason is partly the isolated lifestyle of disabled people. In this campaign leisure activities are collected - based on the offers of communities and individuals - where healthy and disabled people can take part together. Thus the participants can enjoy experiences which they would not be able to do usually.
The formal education system provides only few opportunities for open debates, personal meetings with people from different social backgrounds and learning about alternative viewpoints and values. Uccu’s Roma volunteers have been organizing forums for years in schools, where the students can discuss issues related to the Roma without taboos and have a personal meeting opportunity with the Roma trainers. The association will establish a new group in Pécs, whose members will be trained and then will organise activities for a thousand students in the neighbouring schools. The 10 new volunteers will take part in regular monthly workshops and team building events, which will serve the professional training of the youth and the development of the community. The personal meetings with the volunteers and the honest discussions with them, along with numerous playful exercises will contribute to the improvement of the knowledge of the students about the Roma and reduction of their prejudices.
This initiative reveals personal stories of the recent past that have not yet been told publicly. It also helps the LGBT community and majority society to process these stories and construct dialogue. A large part of these stories is exactly an account of the clashes with and fear from the world outside the closet. Up to today this oppression impacts not only the victims but also the perpetrator or indifferent majority. The creators record, edit, and publish 12 video interviews on the project’s blog and social media sites and archive them. Furthermore, a photo-anthology of interviews will bepublished in 500 copies, which will be presented in the capital and in five cities in the countryside, in conjunction with personal and organizational meetings within the LGBT community. The organizers also aim to encourage elder gay people to tell their stories and share their experiences.
Miskolc is a city where poverty and unemployment is high and the number of underprivileged people is still growing. The stiuation endangers children and young people the most. They are more isolated during the summer, having no opportunity to go on holiday.
The club raised attention on these problems at several events, where people could ride fixed bikes and give donations. The action reached 3-5 thosand people and a hundred gave donations. The collected donations were given to the local Child Home.
Smaller settlements can't afford to care about local natural treasures. In Tótkomlós the supported association is working to protect and conservethe local nature for several years. They collect data about plants, birds and mammals and they found several rare and important species around the town which are not protected. It's their goal to achieve local protection in order to preserve them for the future. They also construct a full information system (with information boards and nature trail) about these treasures and they plan to make trips, open bird ringing and special lessons for the local school's children. It's important to show the local people how rich the natural environment they have, and how important it is to care about it. The organizors also hope that during the project they can help the local council, the schools, and the local people, and involve new young members in the work of the organization as well.
The goal of Centropa to motivate teachers and students to learn about and understand the history of Judaism. Thus they will give seminars for teachers and with their involvement a student contest will be organized. Within the contest the participants have to create videos in which they present the history if jews in their own locality, district or settlement.
In Hungary, there are tens of thousands of people living in residences that are practically invisible to the majority of society. Many of these people are living with autism, who are unable to live an independent life, however their creativity capacity is unquestioned. The residences do not have the appropriate resources to develop the creativity of the talented youth. By the project, the interested participants can take part in art therapy and in a development process so they can create works of art that have a place in the art market. Therefore, besides the focus on therapy and art, the initiative has effects on the contemporary art scene and on social awareness. The income gained from the sale of the art works will be a source of revenue for the residencies with financial problems. Currently 12 institutions and 200 involved people receive support in the framework of the project; there will be weekly art activities in seven residences, with the regular and active participation of 60 people living with autism. The result of this will be a unique, gradually enriching collection of thousands of drawings from autistic people, a selection of which will appear on the autisticart.hu and autisticart.eu web pages. In Hungary, this organisation is the only one that provides artistic activities with a modern art approach – that ensures much more success for autistic people than the traditional creative expressions. Several of the young participants have gone through an impressive development. There are some who have become great artists while they still do not speak, another member already opened his own exhibition. Furthermore, by the support of the grant and in cooperation with designers, the prominent art works will appear in the foundation’s design brand, the Autistic Art, created in 2013, on shawls, notebooks, wallets and pullovers. The products that receive great commercial success and publicity bring attention to the issue of autism and the people living with autism and help social acceptance. Through the income gained by the sale of the products the foundation will finance the residences and sustain the art activities.
The lack of civi education is decade long problem of Hungarian society and several coexistence problems are rooted in this deficit. The 50 kids attending the citizenship camp of Bibó Special College will learn about civil and political rights, state institutions, EU and financial literacy for five days in playful forms. The students of the Bibó College will organize the camp and teach the children, and an illustrated workbook is also being developed for the curriculum.
95% of the victims of domestic violence are women and the reason behind is the gender inequality. To solve the problem, we have to be familiar with the exact definition, which is not widely known. There are solutions and helper organisations providing psychological, technical and legal support, but only a small percentage of the victims and the witnesses ask for their help and most of these people do nothing.
The campaign aims to raise awareness on the activity of the helper organisations and about the definiton and on the solutions of the problem. The campaigners want to activate the victims and the witnesses and confront the potential perpetrators with the nature of their act, and show them solutions.
The aim of the project is to dismantle prejudices against homelessness, and to test community funding as a means of fundraising and a solidarity practice in social care. The program is especially relevant because of the policies of the past few years which mean that authorities can now sanction people for being poor. In the present project they would like to carry out a model program of a new type of individual support system - by investing into things (training, tools, etc.) through community funding to enable the homeless to do something for their own better circumstances. A successful community fundraising and its publicity can strengthen solidarity, it can make the methodology of the Van Esély Foundation accepted, the Város Mindenkié can reach its target audience with a much deeper and more detailed message and Zöld Pók Foundation can get more practice in community funding.
The youth living in Roma settlements often have integration and self-assessment problems. They do not believe that they can have a successful life and that they can make a difference in the life of their community. Without effective help, this negative perspective will turn into reality, and they will become isolated. However, if they receive support in order to appreciate their own values, they recognize new alternatives to shape their own lives as well as that of the community. The goal of the project is to create positive contemporary role models out of the 26 youth living in 5 Roma settlements through trainings, and thus improve the confidence of the Roma youth, their capacity to advocate for themselves and their chances for equal treatment. In the long term, the goal is to build a peer self-help network, to spread peaceful handling of conflicts, and to improve the recognition and integration of the Roma people. In the framework of the initiative, a group of young trainers (6 young Roma from the Roma settlements) will take part in a training that empowers them to make their compatriots more active. Through these activities, 20 young Roma from the Roma settlements will plan and execute two volunteer actions around a goal defined by themselves, with the involvement of a further 100-150 persons. Since the details of these actions will be planned by the youth themselves, they will own the methods and results of the projects too. Through this their self-assessment and responsibility will be strengthened, and their successes can be shown to the mainstream society.
The conditions for mentally challenged people to live autonomously and their opportunities for jobs are rather poor in Hungary that is a serious burden on their families. An earlier project of the Foundation successfully strengthened the need of the mentally challenged people for autonomy from their parents and their search for employment. Now they want to prepare them (especially those affected with Williams syndrome and other rare diseases) for an autonomous life through work and trainings, that meet their needs and their personalities. During work, the participants gain experience in organising events and a non-profit initiative could be started that might even turn into a for-profit enterprise on the long run. The events will fit the needs of the people involved, since they themselves take part in the organisation. Other, similar initiatives could use the knowledge and experience gained from the project. Besides these activities, the participants will organise four events, - ranging from one-day to two-week long – in the framework of a training led by specialists. The professional work will be implemented with the cooperation of the Norwegian Frambu and the ELTE BGGYK. The results and methods of the project will be available to the interested institutions and persons through broad professional communication.
The children living in the Roma settlement of Bag are going through a series of failures at school, partly due to their underdeveloped skills and the lack of a supporting community. The majority of these children cannot study further and have no chance to get out of the settlement’s enclosure. The goal of the project is to provide support for 80 children living in the settlement, through skills and emotional development and by the community of the football team. High school and university students have a special role in this work, who will organise activities for the children on a weekly basis. The involvement of the local inhabitants and the regular contact with the local institutions and the families contribute to the emphasise put on the needs and role of the people involved and ensures that the activities of the project are beneficial on their lives. Besides developing the disadvantaged children and their families, as well as organising the community, one of the goals of the initiative is to increase the sensitivity of the majority society to the situation of Bag and other settlements and to communicate the results of the activities of the community in Bag. This goal will be reached by the communication of the project and the participating volunteers. On the basis of the experiences, a methodological collection and a short films will be made, which could be a useful starting point for other specialists and civil organisations.
The inmates and their family members have to deal with numerous difficulties and rejection from the institutions and the society in general during the enforcement of sentences and even after. These people and their children can only move on if they are given opportunities for quality changes in their life and society does not give up on them. 15 female prisoners and their family members take part in story telling therapy, family development and several other interconnected services. The constant support and development services provided for these women and children and the opportunities to meet each other in events rich in emotions lead to the improvement of their self-assessment, their family relations and their ability to take responsibilities. Thanks to the methods of the project, the inmates and their children will have more success, which is essential for their proper self-assessment, relationships and plans for their life after prison. The goal of the initiative is to disseminate the method in several correctional institutes in Hungary and to communicate the project’s main goals and results to the mainstream society with numerous communication tools, such as a documentary.
Several initiatives worke with mentally challenged people and numerous organisations provide services for drug users. At the same time, the issue of mentally challenged drug users was an unknown field in the sector until recently, though mentally challenged people often use drugs (mostly alcohol and pharmaceutics), which is a double challenge for the people involved and the specialists taking care of these people. The fact that the issue is most often a taboo only makes the solution of this problem more difficult. This project focuses on raising awareness on this phenomenon to open a dialogue on potential solutions. The goal of the group activities is to improve the quality of life of the institutionalised mentally challenged people through mutual discussions and practical solutions. The results and methods of this initiative will be available for the specialists and the general public.
As Hungary today is facing a housing crisis, this year's Free School program of Krétakör entitled HOME examined the issue of housing poverty together with the target group of secondary school students. In the beginning of December 2014, a poster campaign was launched. 90 posters were designed by the students, raising awareness on prejudice against homelessness and exclusion of homeless people. When preparing for the campaign, students collaborated with homeless activists from The City is for All group. In the process, participating students became more sensitive and conscious regarding homelessness while the participating homeless people become more aware of how to control the discourse about them and gain hands-on experience in advocacy from an aesthetic approach. The posters were displayed in public places and received huge media coverage.
Glassvillage is an innovative project that aims to achieve complete financial transparency within Hungarian municipalities. As a pilot project, the program would first apply its guidelines on a small town called Pázmánd, before it could become widespread across the country. By organizing so-called transparency trainings, 75 different NGOs will be prepared to be able to pressure local municipalities to have more financial transparency. In short, the project involves the municipality, local NGOs and the citizens of Pázmánd. Additionally, the program should also embrace NGOs from the whole country that wish to promote freedom of information and which are interested in the trainings and conferences of the eDemocracy Association. The project also includes a research on local municipalities; transparency, as well as a sophisticated rating system.
Students living in children home have a very difficult life after they leave the home: they can hardly fit into society. The children livin the Tata boarding school are specially disadvantaged; many of them with special needs, learning or intellectual disabilities, autism. Contrast Workshop gives the residents a chance for a full life and to become useful members of their community. To this end they organize three camps, afternoon workshops and volunteer programs for students using the methods of experiental and drama pedagogy and they also offer workshops for the teachers. At the end the artworks created in the last camp will be presented as well as a publication for the staff of the school summarizing the observations, to be published on the internet too. The workshops also enrich the methodological culture of the institution.
In recent years the level of racist discrimination, exclusion and nationalistic tendencies have increased dramatically. This manifests in the appearance of these views in the political arena, but also in the media and in much broader sections of society. In recent years violent acts motiated by such mentality, and militant groups appeared. March for Life is a demonstrative action on the 70th anniversary of the deportations of Hungarian Jews an mass. The participants walk the routes of the "former" death marches on foot, in the form of a pilgrimage. Hungarians join a large group of German youth who are direct descendants of former nazi perpetrators. The Hungarians join them in their message regarding the vital necessity of telling the truth about the past actions of former generations, and express apology where it is due. The participants are Holocaust surviors and their descendants, school students from secondary schools, Hungarian civil and Christian church communities.
The topic of the project is the issue of minority: the question of the relationship between the Roma and non-Roma people. The aim is to create a more sincere social communication with the juxtaposition of real, personal and documented experiences, opinions and points of view. The project has several components: social research experiences, plays and a situations based forum theater and concert. The target audience is young adults, but older people can also be involved. The project is not biased in the direction of either. The purpose is not to find a solution to the problems, merely to create an honest communication.
In Heves and Kunhegyes district the modal-split of public transport and cycling is decreasing. People without car have no chance to go work. Local developments are aiming at cars while community and bike transport is neglected. Based on traveller's fora the organizers make recommendations on a realistic time schedule. Through local campaigns and dialogue with the municipality they aim to develop bike transport as well.
Aphasia is speech disorder that occurs due to stroke, accidents or other brain damages. People with aphasia can think and feel normally but they are unable to communicate their thoughts and feelings. According to the report of the Hungarian Ombudsman „presently there is no proper support, care and rehabilitation system in Hungary for people with aphasia”. The aim of the project is to improve the communication and speech skills of patients with aphasia, strengthen their interest representation, and decrease social marginalisation. The direct target group is people with aphasia living in or near Budapest, some of them having additional disabilities. Participants receive individualized, complex support, by various therapeutic methods and counselling. Project results improve their social situation and quality of life, while decreasing their social exclusion.
The number of homeless people in Hungary is very high. Unfortunately, politics don’t support the solution of the problem with appropriate tools on the contrary criminalisation is typical. Society is characterised by enstrangement, most people are insensitive to their fellows’ problems. Instead of solving the problems, people consider hiding the problem is a good solution The long term goal of the campaign is to strengthen social acceptance, reduce the negative attitude against homeless people and make the society more sensitive to problems. The specific goal is to raise awareness about the criminalisation of homeless people with peaceful actions. In short online videos they show homeless and ordinary people and set parallels of the stereotypes which are typical for different social groups. Each video ends with thought-provoking questions. With the campaign the organization wants to show a way to pay attention to each other, to behave more emphatically in order to make this world more liveable together. They hope to reach the mainstream society through the media so the negative attitude decreased, people donate more and the social responsibility is increased. With the help of the action the constitution of the organization will also grow, more regular supporter and volunteers will join the actions of the organizors.
The number of hate crimes grew in the last years in Hungary. Victims don't receive enough help, they don't trust authorities where the workers are prejudicial as wel. Ebony now wants to develop effective mechanisms to deal with hate violence, to support the victims of hate crimes, to launch a dialogue between NGO-s and governmental bodies, to transfer international good practices, to prepare relevant materials which can be used in the long term, to increase the number of documented hate crimes
They prepare educational materials, leaflets, action kit and recommendations, they organize 5 round-table discussions, and create of a joint declaration. They also want to document hate crime cases, create a website and impelemnt guerilla and flash mob actions.
The youth unemployment rate is really high in Hungary. In general fewer young people applies for jobs with less success. The high rate and the reproduction of unemployment deepens the inequality, the structural discrimination and social dissatisfaction. The problem is known, many NGOs, but they don't have a good network that would make their work more efficient. The goal of the project is to realize an adoptable complex program that is based on non-formal learning methods and to create a network of experts in order to decrease the number of unemployed youth and to ease the transition from schools to the labour market. It aims to develop different competencies of disadvantaged youth and inform them about opportunities. During the project there will be workshops and trainings where the developed model program and methods will be delivered. Beside the several media appearance an informative video will be published as well. The target groups are the disadvantaged youth studying in vocational schools, the representatives of civic sector, social and educational professionals.
The action reflects on the remembrance – to be more exact, the absence of remembrance - of the series of murders against Romas in 2008/2009 with the tools of theater in education. During the preparation for the action the participants work with the topic of Roma and non-Roma coexistence. Five complex Theater in Education performances and street performance is created in the action, about these topics. The action helps to think through together if we need to remember somebody, if he became a victim only because of his origin, and also, how (or do we) have any responsibility in somebody’s death whom we never met?
Dorog is one of the most air polluted cities in Hungary. The organizastion's goals is to reduce environmental pollution of industrial plants through social control of the industrial plants. The main target groups are the inhabitants of Dorog. The association arrange visitations to the plants with the involvement of inhabitants, companies, NGOs and media and mediate the residential expectations towards the company. They also write articles about these plant visitations and publish them in the association's newspaper. Altogether 22 plant visitations, 5 residential forums, 4 waste collections, 10 edited newspapers, 2 publications, the plantcontrol.hu + dangerouswastecollection.hu websites and training for 24 NGOs will be implemented in the project.
The storytelling theater sheds light on a problem from many perspectives thus increase the viewers (who play active part) empathy and tolerance of others. The association will teach people learning/working in the field of humanities, who want to learn and apply the method of playback. They also aim to establish a playback group after the training.
The role of the Dr Dizseri Tamás Rehabilitation Center is to educate children and youth living with disabilities. Their method is based on special education principles and takes into consideration individual needs, aiming at establishing basic daily routines and community activities, as well as organizing therapeutic session according to the health and mental status of the children. The Foundation had been established by parents to support the functioning of the Rehabilitation Center and its clients.
The aim of the project is to decrease the disadvantages of people living with disabilities in Érd, to promote their equal chances and to form the opinion of the local community.
They organize special theater plays with the participation or disabled and healthy youth, using tools of music, theater and circus. The play will be staged by the disabled children of the Rehabilitation Center, the student of the Mora Ferenc primary school, with less serious disabilities, the students of the Acrobat school, volunteers of the Vörösmarty Mihály secondary school, and the members or the Bolyki Soul Gospel choir.
The exhibition and programs running parallel to the theater play presents the development work of the Center and the Foundation and the institution the Center is cooperating with. The audience can have a glimpse on the everyday life of youth living with various degrees of disability and can see that they can also produce tangible values.
The play and the preparation process will be filmed, that can be used for sensitizing members of the mainstream society.
The goal of the project is to direct attention to the problems created by the virtual, especially to the phenomena of addiction and cyber-bullying. The organizations will establish a college student group (from the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of Eszterházy Károly College) that will assist the nearby highschools in this topic based on their contemporary interest and peer knowledge. Besides training college students and inviting new professionals into the collaboration, the target group that is about 2000 students will be reached through a campaign as well. The activities are: training for college students, camps and workshops with ongoing campaigning for high-school students and clubs about respect and acceptance.
The organization aims to involve families in the community life through programs organized at playgrounds. During the program simple games will be organized and taught to the families. The goal is integration and community building, the involvement of Roma families.
The project will create a multi-functional web page, which will contain a cultural institution with art materials, photos and documents, a contemporary photo site with socially sensitive portfolios and series, an e-book publishing house, an interview page with short films on local heroes, a database with a map of social innovation projects, and a fair-market web shop. The materials that will be put on the web pages will be related to the lives and cultures of different communities and artists with diverse background and identity. The mission of the organization is to use the tool of culture and trade, along with the possibilities given by the network society for social inclusion. Our goal is that professional and public discourse about culture and art is not affected by economic and power interests dressed as aesthetic aspects and to remove this theme out of the forcefully ethicized thematic ghetto it is currently in, where it is unable to develop further.
The project aims to degrading treatment in the workplace sexual harassment, degrading treatment of women and workplace mobbing reduction in Hungary. The target groups are victims of violence (mainly women), employers, and the problem, interested NGOs, national and two regions of the country. The project activities on the one hand provide immediate assistance to victims of violence, on the other hand, employers and the public shaping directed training and communication campaign, as well as by civil society, professionals are prepared for prevention, intervention and case management. The project is realized cooperationing RÉV Alapítvány (Nyíregyháza), HÍD Egyesület (Miskolc) and other NGOs. The project is a result of reduced workplace bullying and mobbing of events, an increase in the rejection, employers and civil society organizations are well prepared to address the problem,and prevention of the problems.
One of today’s main task is the social integration of children with disabilities. Their care is often done in special education institutions, where they are helped by various programs. One of these alternative program is dog assisted therapy.
The Tordasi whispering program provides therapeutic program in special education institutions and develops new, dog assisted complex therapeutic methodological games. The project is closed by a „Day of experiences” in the TordaZoo animal farm where the new, complex therapeutic games are presented. The event will create a platform for new cooperation and exchange of professional experiences.
In Eger the extreme ideas, exclusion of Roma people are strong, among the youth as well. The entertainment facilities are limited. The goals of the orgnizors is to involve (especially Roma) youngsters by playing music and other creative activities; to establish an opened youth community place; reduce conflicts between Roma and non-Roma youngsters. By the end of the project the community place becomes accepted; the attitudes of youngsters change; Roma youngsters become active, their self-confidence strengthens.
The question of the whole event is whether we stay in our country or choose to leave. How democratic we feel, why do so many people leave? The basis of the project is a street circus-theater show about the topic complemented with an interview based documentary about the audience and NGOs and a sociology survey. The organizers want to ope a space for social street actions, raise questions about our own situation and give possibility for community thinking and show to the people where they can connect what possibilities they have.
Rett syndrome is a genetic disease that causes complex functional problems in the central nervous system. Its cause is a malfunctioning gene on the X chromosome, that manifests only in girls. Due to the abnormal development of the central nervous system the children need constant care, attention and help. The aim of the project is to maintain and improve the physical and mental state of the girls and to provide therapeutic and informational services, mental hygienic help for the parents and to improve their interest representation skills. The project is organised from the bottom-up, it tries to improve the efficiency of the cooperation between the specialized care system and the volunteer helpers from the side of the families. The goal is to establish a sustainable network that helps the communication of all the stakeholders (patients, their family members, experts, helpers), therefore improves the access to the services, presently meeting geographical obstacles. Trainings and development plans will be provided for experts who help the families locally.
Homophobic, rasist and anti-semitic views remain unanswered in the Hungarian public speech. FriGo aimet to tackle this problem and they decided to give fast, constructiv reactions on succh speech for a certain period. They also wanted to raise atetntion on the diversity of Hungarian society and that diverisity often means similarity as well. The proejct organizors reacted through online comments, through social media, posters and through the press on hate speech.
People living with disabilities and their families often lack information about their rights in the health and social care system. One of the reasons is the lack of an information system that is easily available, effective and transparent for them. The Information Points Network to be created in the frame of the project will fill this deficit in disadvantaged micro-regions of five Counties. The collection and distribution of information and the development of the network will be efficient because every step is made with the involvement of the local NGOs and mentors. The participation of the civil organisations will ensure the synchronisation of viewpoints, information and needs that would have been neglected otherwise. The collected information will reach the involved families through the active participation of 25 mentors. The network will also develop the strength of the advocacy and the cooperation of individuals and the local NGOs, since the network can initiate changes that are beyond the capacities of individuals and separate organisations. The initiative will reach 5000 people who will access previously not available services and opportunities, therefore their quality of life improves.
The Historic Avas is one of the most exciting value of Miskolc. However, the several hundred years old built and natural environment is declining. The abandoned buildings are slowly becoming ruins, the cellars are falling in. The organizers want to revive the Small- and Big Avas and make the the center of community life. The association aims to join the forces of locals and NGOs for the sake of these goals. Through workshops they want to create a development plan and implement community-cult programs which also aims to research and present their history.
People have only few, distorted information about those living on the periphery of society. Today's political communication has questioned the existence of human rights NGOs. The initiative aims to spread information about issues represented by human rights NGOs through "Did you know" questions. The questions asked in a playful manner and disseminated through free channels like facebook. The campaign raises the prestige of human rights NGOs and raise awareness on how people can support them.
The tumour patients often do not receive appropriate information from the health service employees and in many cases their rights to dignity are violated. These factors have negative effects on the patients concerning their chances for recovery. The doctors are overburdened and are used to a hierarchized relationship system, which has a negative effect on the doctor-patient relations. One of the goals of the project is to improve the patients’ capacity to advocate for their interests. The other goal is to improve the communication of doctors and other health care workers with their patients and to build partnership. A study will be compiled based on the personal experiences, while the trainings will improve the advocacy skills of the patients and their families. The doctors and other health care workers trained in assertive communication will bring much needed help to other patients. Furthermore, media campaigns will help in the broader communication of information related to this topic. An important part of this campaign is the work of the MOME design students: following an “initiation” and sensitization to this topic, the students will work out and execute “social design” ideas appropriate to social communication targeting the broader society.
The opportunities for social participation of people living with serious or special disabilities are weak, since accessible traffic infrastructure is underdeveloped.
The aim of the project is to “move out” people with movement disabilities in the neighbourhood of Dombóvár through experience therapy and by participating in sport and cultural programs. Social relations are broadened, physical and mental health is developed by improving their mobility. They develop living relationship with the inhabitants of the city that forms the attitudes of the mainstream society.
“Moving out” is achieved by city tours on special bicycles. That improves their access to transport, developing their self-management, independence and health, which also helps the life of their families.
Since 2010, media regulation in Hungary has been criticized at home and abroad for not adequately guaranteeing media pluralism and freedom. These laws were elaborated with no prior consultation with the professional communities and the public, thus they did not build on widely discussed drafts. The Center for Independent Journalism – with the Mérték Standards Media Monitor - facilitates a professional and social dialogue to contribute to a long-term, future media regulation based on strong legitimacy and the European standards of media freedom. Journalists, representatives of media organizations, companies, civil society organizations, researchers and lawyers will discuss draft concepts of key issues - the regulatory authority, regulation of the media market, media literacy and self-regulation, public service media - at public debates and via online forum from October 2013. Based on the conclusions of the closing conference in February 2014, a final concept will be elaborated.
With a development of a community radio the foundation strenghtens the civil society and the social responsibility of youngsters as well in Miskolc. A community radio is a suitable tool to generate the critical thinking of young people and also to boost the residents' local activity. The organizers involve partners and local resources from various levels to create a Community Fund. With the involvement and extensive participation they can also ensure audience, as the target groups are students, local civil organisers and cultural creatives – they become editors and reporters and listeners too. The Community Fund will stand on three legs: voluntary working hours of youngsters, the activity of civil, committed broadcasters and the financial support of individuals and local enterprises. Through the Community Fund and the involvement of young people the radio can become sustainable.
The project aims to help the public institutions of Szolnok in developing their accessibility. With the involvement of people living with disabilities the organizors visit all institutions and map their accessibility, they contact the responsible persons and initiate meetings with them. They also give advice on the cheapest and best solutions of the possible developments. A voice map is also created and published online about the accesibility of the institutions and the experiences will be published offline as well.
As specific operation of the social sphere is no longer able to sustain the organization, the assocation needs to adapt to the changing circumstances. New sources of revenue have to be found in the for-profit sector. Thus the organization will go through organizational development, in order to teach the employees how to integrate the social values and economic approach. Benefits of the development will be that internal conflicts will be reduced, the operation will be more efficient and the service portfolio will be expanded. A model intersectoral cooperation will be developed as well (non-profit and the private sector).
Social and cultural spaces are shrinking, becoming overly controlled by the state, budget cuts, neglected professionalism, inactive civil cultural scene. The objective is to provide cultural and social agents with space and visibility, to raise issues marginalized by the government, a new network through collaboration, to foster self-governance, cultural and social understanding, and dialogue btw for- /non-profit sectors and with the international scene. To this end the supported foundation organizes a series of cultural events with more than 100 participants at local and foreign locations. The project will achieve capacity building of the contemporary art scene, extending networks and collaborations, learning from good practices, new financial structures, improving the visibility of the scene, thematizing social issues and loosen state-dependency. The project will addresse these challenges through: fosters collaborations, alternative economy, opens up space for capacity sharing, activates self-help and improves the diversification of the cultural and social scene. These will benefit from the project: artists, cultural workers, the civil sector, supporters and the wider public. It will be exchanging of good practices with partnership with Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen.
The association took under to establish new garden communities and to start the organic cultivation of unused lands. Their goal is to create eatable gardens in 3 cities, in four family and two institutional gardens and to organize trainings and community programs for the participants. The garden communities help each other in planning, in buying the equipments that they will use together as well. The seedling of the vegetable plants and is implemented with the help of disadvantaged students of a local vocational school.
A significant part of women do not know about the advantages and disadvantages of superfluous and necessary interventions that burden them, neither of the dangers of their incidental complications. Alternatal aims to inform about the latest scientific information on birthgiving and childcare; thus helping families to find the most secure obstetric service. They will organize trainings to prepare women for birthgiving, and they will make interviews with women who have given birth in- and outside of institutions, and they will initiate a dialogue with medical students on the occasion of Freedom for Birth documentary movie.
A tenth of the adult population Hungary had used some type of drug. The early signal system reported 118 new type of drugs in 2009-2013. While earlier half of the clients of the needle exchange programs used intravenous heroin or amphetamine, in 2013 three quarter of them used some new psychoactive substance. The effect of the new substances are shorter, therefore users inject more often, increasing the risk of infectious diseases. The program is located in the 7th district of Budapest, targeting the health problems caused by intravenous substance use. They organize needle exchange and the collection of drug trash, decreasing the spread of HIV and hepatitis. Besides these low-threshold services, the organisation builds connections with the social and health service providers, informs the target group about the available services and motivates them to use these. One goal of the project is to decrease problems related to drug use, however the sensitization of the general society is also important. A help-line service is also operated which helps in the collection of drug trash and in reaching potential clients. A communication campaign is implemented as well to provide fact-based information.
Lenszirom Theater aims to draw attention on coexistence of Roma and non-Roma people in the eastern part of Hungary, in Nyírbátor. They create a platform with the methods of drama pedagogy where the participant students can openly express their opinion. With the help of classroom-theater, discussion theatre and democracy games the students learn about their fundamental human rights and the concept of democracy as well.
Unemployment is high in an outskirt of Pécs, there are only few community initiatives that could improve the self-assessment, cooperation skills or income generation potential of the inhabitants. The project organises agricultural training for 8 residents living in the disadvantaged area. The participants can immediately use the knowledge gained, since they will clean up two abandoned agricultural areas and start farming. Besides saving chestnut trees, which gave the name of this part of the town, other plants will be planted, as well as community activities organised, such as “Pécsbánya is covered with flowers” and the „Chestnut Festival”. These events will not only develop the local community, they will also sensitize and inform the larger society towards values and opportunities of the disadvantaged part of the town. Certain parts of the project will be planned and realized by the work groups of involved residents, which will benefit the community’s cooperation through the experience of shared work and success. The sale of the plants that are produced on the land will provide income for the locals on the long-term.
The school system is not able to compensate the disadvantages of Roma children thus many of them become early school-leavers. The new Public Education Act has strengthened the problems as it has zero tolerance on children who do not follow school norms. It shuts those children out from a public service that should be available for everyone thus they lose the opportunity of social integration. The chances of youth on labour market are weak as they lack many competencies. Most of them dropped out of schools because they had financial or behavior problems; however they gladly help around the house and in different activities. The objective is to make the community more supportive, to develop the competencies of participants; make them more experienced and successful on labor market. Several trainings, workshops and community programs will be organized. The organization involves 30-40 youth between the age of 16 and 20 from each settlements (Sály and Szomolya), and 10-12 Roma civic organizations from North Hungary (especially Heves and Borsod Counties) in order to help them with elaborating similar programs. The organization will cooperate with 4 public institutions.
Contemporary slavery is an existing phenomenon in Hungary, with estimated 34-38000 victims, mianly women, girls. The organization's objective is to expose the phenomenon of contemporary slavery in Hungary. The activities are expert forum about prevention; systematic formal and non-formal educational activities focusing on the rights of women and children; campaigning and advocacy. Thanks to the project experts and the larger public both will recognize that contemporary slavery is social problem. The project will addresses the challenges through adaptation of teaching material on contemporary slavery (b) Trainings for relevant NGO trainers and school teachers (c) Stakeholder forum for an effective prevention campaign (d) Short anonymous personal videos with victims using the digital storytelling method (e) Travelling exhibition involving photo journalists (f) Public awareness-raising campaign. NGOs, teachers, youth, victims, social workers, responsible bodies, reporters, wider public, will benefit from this.
The Foundation's aim to enhance the environmental sustainability of dwellings provided for mentally handicapped people. The primary target group of the project are the mentally handicapped people living in homes, secondly the experts, suppliers and local environment working with them. The main activities are ane asily understandable training, the creation of model gardens, exchanging and bartering with local people, and the introduction of the Green Dwelling logo, Green Dwelling workshop.
The aim of the project is to lower the prejudice against immigrants and to conduce the target group's social acceptance. Furthermore with their active involvement in a contemporary performance which will be widely supported and open to the crowd will help to reduce racism directed at immigrants. The participants are students and immigrants in Hungary. The project starts with a blog where the participating children can share their personal thoughts and experiences. The kids will be an essential part of the performance based on these stories and at the end they evaluate the effort within several Theater in Education sessions. Thanks to the short clips recorded during the project the even more people can learn about the topic.
Transplantation and the previous, often long illnesses cause serious traumas for the children, that leads to anxiety, depression, learning disorders. It is very important to strengthen the communication in the family, due to the less attention paid to the other sisters and brothers and the difficult life situation of the parents.
The main aim of the project is to provide support for 0-14 aged children after transplantation and for their families by tale therapy affecting their unconscious levels, helping to process the psychic trauma of transplantation and promoting the social reintegration of the children.
A supporting book of tales will also be developed to foster the effectiveness of the project, that will be used in the therapy as well. The developed method and the story book can be used by other organisation supporting the rehabilitation of children after transplantation.
Children above age the age of 12 are less likely to be adopted thus they are the most vulnerable among the youth. The state schild protection network doesn't have the capacity to offer career modell or life planning advice for this target group. This project provides community-based development for children by establishing a peer mentor network, training mentors and creating a community space where community programs can be held and where children can get after school lessons. Beyond all these outdoor programs are organized where potential foster families can meet the children. The participating children receive a personal development plan as well to help them planning their career.
This initiative aims to create a self-assertive group with the participation of socially active people coming from various groups of people living with disabilities. The members of the group learns to become experiential experts and learns to hold sensitizer trainings. They will clearly see their interests, their needs, and will be able to contact local governments operating in the target area, offices and institutions in order to have first hand information from credible sources. The group contacts the municipalities and institutions of Baranya and holds 60 training for the key figures of these. The project will be developed to serve as a model and be made available for other target groups as well.
The representation of the parents with disabled children in Heves county are limited, the smaller community organizations do not have enough campaigning skills and have only a few active members. the organization now wants to enhance advocacy through strengthening the membership base and their advocacy and organizing skills, by continuing continue two campaigns, establishing a regional parental mentoring system and by monitoring the current desegration process of big care institutes in the county.
The mission of the project is to foster, or at least, add to the cultural and social paradigm shift that is to tackle nowadays’ environmental, economic and moral challenges, with a special focus on the problems and opportunities of vulnerable population of underdeveloped countryside areas imposed to the risks of unemployment, low income, poor living standards. On the local level it will carry out community and capacity building activities, develop a local community centre, it is also to connnect similiar but isolated sustainability initiatives and to create mutual learning opportunities for them. Outputs will also include the installation, operation and demonstration of a spinning room and a wool processing workshop, two community gardens, numerous community events combined with crafting workshops, ten short films documenting the events, study trips, a summer camp, 3 methodological forums as well as the development of a new production and its brand.
Middle-class children, children who are raised outside of families and disadvantaged children rarely have occasions to personally meet and cooperate. At the same time, self-assessment, dealing with conflicts and finding our own place in society are key issues to every social groups. The goal of the initiative of the theatre workshop in Debrecen is to develop different children together through drama activities, to improve their self-assessment, their cooperation skills and provide opportunities for success. 90 children with different backgrounds take part in the series of workshop for more than a year and a half in the project. Besides the drama pedagogy activities, theatre training and the creation of new shows, there will be joint excursions and other events in order for the youth to create a real, active community.
The rate of early school leaving among 18-24 year old youth in Hungary is the double of the regional average. The impacts are poverty, social exclusion and rising inequalities. While public education institutions hardly equip the most disadvantaged with skills necessary for employment/continuation of studies, NGOs in this area lack the networking capacity. Thus their potentials remain unexploited. MC aims to help 52 disadvantaged students to continue studying/find jobs by developing their personal/ professional competencies in ways that boost democratic awareness and active citizenship as well. They do this by applying a novel integrated approach divided into 4 modules totalling 8-12 training days and holding a mini conference. Besides MC also launches a network of 35 NGOs and raise awareness among 100 schools on how to help their students in the future.
While average age is getting higher in Europe elderly people get more and more lonely. Though, they would have an important role: to create a more sustainabile world not only new ideas and inventions but their knowledge is also needed. Thus the project aims to foster intergenerational learning between young and old people by the development of an appropriate model for that. In this phase 60 elderly and young people will be involved in different workshops from local schools and elderly homes, a special camp will be organized for them in the foundation’s education centre, and a sustainability idea collection will be compiled. For the dissemination of the developed model it will be adapted in 10 different venues and at least 10 other NGOs will be trained for its use.
There are few initiatives focusing on the children of inmates in Hungary – who are often stigmatized and excluded from society, while they have difficulties even to keep in touch with their parents. The main goal of the project is to strengthen and nurture the parent-children relationship and to support the children. The secondary aim is to involve and activate the civil organisations and through this activity, the sensitization of society and the development of prejudice- and shame-free communication methods. The project involves inmates and their children, its immediate effect is to strengthen the relationsip of the children and their fathers. The performances of the storytelling father groups and other playful programs help the children in reducing their anxieties and stress, while it improves the self-assessment and responsibilities of the fathers. Several volunteers help the initiative, supporting the storytelling group and the everyday lives of the involved families. The methodology and the results will be available to the experts and the institutions, and the message will reach the mainstream society. It is our common responsibility what opportunities are given to the people who have committed crimes and their children, who are not responsible for their situation.
Tutaj Project was established by the citizens of the 13th district to stop the construction of a new block with several hundreds of flats on the site of a closed kindergarten. However the democratic participation is weak in the district, there is a growing need for community activities and creative programs says the association's survey. At the same time the municipality is not opened to the needs of the community and the organization would like to channel the citizen's needs into the decision making. To reach these goals the proejct organizors want to create a community space and a community garden. They also want to take part in the municipality's decision making process through initiating personal meetings, public data requests and community planning.
Our aim is the creation of a community space, community garden on the site, to preserve local natural values, and to develop local community through encouraging active participation. The target groups of the project are the group of local habitants (approximately 10 thousand people), as well as local civil organizations, authorities and council.
Our main activites include development of advocacy skills, community building, event organization and the creation of the garden itself. Through the realization of the project, they aim to gain wide societal support for our goals, and to provide an example for creating gardens on both urban and national level.
The goals of the project is to strengthen the economic independence social participation of women. Thus the organization wants to raise the gender-awereness, and strengthen the advocacy capacities of women entrepreneurs. The target group of the proejct is the NGOs operating the Nora-hubs and the Nora network. The organization helps these to develop their business modell and provide training for mentors who will help women who want to become entrepreneurs. During the project they also organize inspirational, awareness raising and professional events, entrepreneurship trainings and provide communication tools and support on- and offline. They also encourage women entrepreneurs and job-seekers of Nora-NGO's to find each other and they conduct a niche research on specific motivations, situation and experiences of women entrepreneurs with the help of experts and Nora-hubs.
The main goal of the project is to alter the development plans of Normafa, a major natural heritage site of Budapest. A ski and outdoor sport centre is to be set up here with an easy access from the city center, however, plans (those few made public up to now) seriuously endanger valuable and identical natural and landscape values of this unique area. Target groups are civil society organizations, local citizens (especially those living in District 12 and the neigbouring Budakeszi) as well as local councils and authorities. Main activities include various advocacy activities, stakeholder involvement and community planning to develop an alternative commmunity based development plan, and a vast public campaign in order to engage the public and influence decision makers. The development of cooperation and stakeholder dialogue is an essential part of the project, that on the long run, can have an influence not only on the future of Normafa, but also on other development projects carried out in the agglomeration.
The project’s goal is to address the following general problems on the local level: lack of knowledge about natural values and factors that endanger them, the lack of knowledge on ecological processes and their socio-economical impacts, the lack of knowledge on everyday practices available for the reduction or management of environmental and nature protection problems. The grantee organizes and provides various formal and non-formal educative learning opportunities in Veresegyháza and in its surroundings for the general public with a special focus on kindergarden and primary school students in order to shape attitudes towards conservation issues, strengthen patriotism and social responsibility, and to improve environmental awareness of local society. Activities will include field excursions and games, publishing conservation brochures, lecturing and conducting a campaign via local communication channels (TV, newspapers, social media).
The touristic routes and natural treasures around Balaton offer high quality leisure opportunities, however people with disabilities have limited access to these doe to the lack of sufficient information and infrastructure.
The aim of the project is to increase the access to these services and therefore improve the quality of life and integration of people with disabilities. Touristic centres are created around the Balaton with the participation of people with disabilities, involving them on the planning and the methodological development. Descriptions of touristic routes and maps are created for people with disabilities, published in the form of guide books and on the internet. A stone park will be created for visually impaired people. Guides will be trained to be able to meet the special needs of people and disabled-friendly services will also be collected (disabled-friendly restaurants, shops, other service providers). A long-term cooperation between the National Park, local students and civil organizations will be established.
The goal of the project is to increase the social-political awareness of young people studying at high schools and at the University of Szeged. Through thee workshops, symposiums, film screenings, conversations anyone can join the project who is interested in these matters. A more indirect goal is to stimulate civil political activity and the practice of participatory democracy in Szeged. Besides theoretical courses the organizers plan workshops of “democracy-practices”, interactive events, thematic film clubs, creative courses of photography and filming.
The Roma youth living in deep poverty can rarely make steps to strengthen their community and advocate for their interests. The project is organizing group sessions on identity, communication, community and organisation development to the 9-10 grade students in the Sajókaza Ámbédkar school. The members of the Jewish and Roma community, the organisations dealing with youth and community development have an important role in the development. These people also contribute to the establishment of a youth organisation by the end of the project by sharing their own examples and methods. For this purpose, the Sajókaza youth will participate in the organisation and realization of several community programs and a summer camp. The knowledge and community experiences gained from these activities will be an important basis for their independent initiatives later. The methods and results of the project will be available for the mainstream society and to the civil organisations through numerous communication tools.
The social participation of younger generation is very weak at Majs while the leaders of NGOs are usually above 50. Thus the association compiled this program with the involvement of young people. They decided to create a community place by renovating an old storehouse, to renovate a firewall with the community, to establish community point and organize programs targeting the twenties - thirties age group.
Prejudice is spreading in Hungary, and naturally young are affected as well. It is the responsibility of the adults society to help children to dissolve borders between the own and the other groups. The organizers of the project want to generate dialogue between the youth of the minority and the majority, thus strengthening tolerance. The participant teenagers can put themselves in the role of excluded minorities. In the second part of the project Roma and non-Roma teens create a film about which a documentary will be shot as well that will be shown for the audience after the project.
Inclusive pedagogy is an improved form of integrated education, that allows children with disabilities to be taught together with healthy children. The teachers of the integrating institution work according to the principles of development based on individual differentiation. It is very important to prevent all forms of exclusion and being excluded. Inclusive education is not widespread in Hungary, that might be partly due to the few practice-oriented teaching models known by the teachers.
The main aim of the project is to adapt the Norwegian Concept Teaching Model (CTM) in Hungary, to broaden the scope of available development programs and to provide a content-independent therapy for establishing inclusive groups. The Hungarian version of the CTM will be created, teachers and therapists will be trained to use the model. Inclusive pedagogy will be introduced in kindergartens and lower primary school. Children in these institution will attend Concept Teaching therapeutic groups on a weekly basis for half a year.
The small villages struggle in Somogy county because of the lack of jobs, vanishing of the traditional handcrafts, and missing long-term possibilities. The main project objective is that the participants achieve practical knowledge and expertise in long-term sustainable handicraft and agriculture techniques. This knowledge gives them living opportunities and an every-day ecological view. The local youth get new chances for staying countryside so they will be able to give back to their land. The organizers hold handcraft courses, agriculture courses, summer camps for local people and youth and for people from the surrounding villages. Participants can develop their professional skills further after the end of the project.
JUMP UP MUM! is a project with the objective to reduce the descrimination of women in labour market and to stop descrimination. It is a fact that those who would like two work besides family management are in a disadvantage in labour market. The organizors provide trainings in the field of antidiscrimination and labour market for 210 women and on line consultation possibility in the frame of Nora-Net. Women will be better in self-management, share tasks and responibilities in family and labour market positioning. The program is a part of a project with at least 10 national network points which is managed by Jól-Lét Foundation with the same aims as this project. The target group of the project are women on maternity leave who are willing to work or return to the labour market. The project organizors get in touch with employees to enhance setting up more family-friend workplace in the region.
People living in homesteads are segregated, they lack community events, spaces and other government financed opportunities. This fact makes grass root, civic initiatives necessary. Children live in deep poverty in the homesteads in Békés County, who have very limited access to organised programs, community experiences for their age group.
Children are motivated to break out of exclusion by community sport activities, talent support and by strengthening their self-esteem. The common goal of the civil organizations and experts is to provide good examples and opportunities for breaking out for the children, according to their right for equal chances, joy, healthy life and sports. The direct target group is children aged 6-12, who can experience the joy of sports through the programs. The project is cooperating with 10 schools, the municipalities, sport clubs and associations of Békéscsaba, experts and volunteers.
Hungarian non-governmental organizations working on natural spring water conservation face administrative, official and professional problems in their work in general – e.g., they have weak lobby potential and low prestige as well as lack cooperation with each other. The project aims to work on and change this situation by establishing the Hungarian Spring Water Association organization that will provide a well-organized framework both for knowledge sharing and advocacy. In order to utilize good practices and knowledge on the field a model of spring water protection and care will be developed, and a national database of spring water resources will be also complied and published for such civil organizations interested in these questions. The general public will be also adressed through a “Spring-water International Day” event.
The number of women leaders in Eger' public life is really low while the leaders of NGOs are often women, however they are often close to the retirement age. Thus it is important to educate a new, younger generation to create a second line. The association aims to encourage women to take public roles and play an active role in the public life of Eger. They organize regular workshops for women who would take public roles and they build a strong public women network in the city.
The assciation wants to stimulate local art initiatives by creating an irregular donation shop in the Miskolc subcultural life scene. The program's target group is the local amateur artists. It's activity goes on two different lines and supports the self fulfillment and the acting skills of the participants. One is to operate a shelter for the local subcultural life and ensure it's publicity. Another is to measure the adjectives, involve, strengthen, train them and find solutions for their employment as well as reinforce their abilities in activity and planning.
Disadvantaged young people in Kecskemét’s often do not complete their studies and do not feel that they could have an effect on their environment through their active participation. 45 young people will participate in a series of creative activities in the project – in video, music or dance groups. The three different trainings will run in parallel, so participants can choose their group according to their interests and skills. Besides the creative activities, the project will provide team building, community development, career orientation and tutoring, contributing to the successes of the participants in school and in their private lives, on an individual and on a team level. During the group activities, 15 artistic productions (dance performance, film, music) will be created. This will not only strengthen the teams, but it will also increase the sensitivity of the mainstream society about the values and themes of interest of the youth through the public shows. The high school volunteers have an important role in this project, since they can help as peers the youth participating in the program, and therefore will know them better, and will become more sensitive to their situation, their challenges and their successes.
The project's professionals have been seeing an increasing number of not-assisted women who have suffered from violence in the family, from sexual or any other type of aggression, on- or offline molestation, or who are in danger of becoming prostitutes. The main goal is to create a complex service model which provides effective assistance to young women between 16-30, to strengthen these women in order to make them become balanced adults and active people in the society. The project provides mentoring, social and legal support, and helping groups for women. At-risk young people will be involved in educational and approach-forming programs as well. mentors will improve their professional knowledge in personal experience training. The publicity of the project will be provided by actions, professional workshop and online presence. Professional and social communication aims at spreading the information: Solving this problem is our mutual aim!
The goal is to improve the culture of remembrance, and to create opportunities a transparent dialog without fear, to think together about prejudices, to dissolve the misbeliefs. The primary target group: the population of the selected townships, where major jewish communities lived before 1944. With the communication of the results the observations of the project could be useful expansively. The central element of the project: the Scorn play which is suitable to create a good atmosphere for conversation. the organizers choose helpers from every settlement and organize a workshop for them. Important measurable element is the comparison of the answers before and after the performance, where the question is: „What comes to your mind when you hear the word Jew?“ Partners: Hungarian Jewish Archives directed by Zsuzsa Toronyi, the community of Frankel Synagogue and Hungarian Jewish Social Support Fund.
The project aims to contribute to the elimination of the online hate speech by the development of an effective, widely adoptable educational programme and to initiate cooperation between civil society and youth organisations and empower them to be able to take action jointly and achieve long-term results. The project is built on the partnership of civil society organisations which work with young people and the ones consisting of young people in order to reach these two target groups. Based on the international best practice the organizers will develop, test and follow-up an educational programmes tailored to the needs of the target groups. The association also supports the organization of local action plans.
In Hungary, people living with disabilities are not granted many of their fundamental rights, most importantly, to live independently and participate fully in all aspects of life. Dispite the right (granted in CRPD) to have the opportunity to choose their place of residence, approx. 25,000 people with disabilities are segregated in large institutions. The accessibility, access to education on an equal basis (inclusive education), reasonable accommodation in the workplace (promote work experience in the open labour market) are problematic as well. The organizers tried to facilitate changes on numerous official fora, but their efforts have been unsuccessful so far. By organizing a street demonstration similar to the biker's critical mass the association hopes to raise awareness now with more success. During the campaign a petition is created as well with the involvement of all participant groups and stakeholders.
NGOs of the Eger micro region are not well-embedded in local society, consequently they can't represent local interests at regional level. The project aims to multiply the efficiency of the resources of the Foundation by an innovative development method (ABCD-asset based community development). Through ABCD they reveal local resources which can be the base of a broad community development process in the future. The adapted methodology will be available and free for other regions as well.
The main activities are the adaptation of the ABCD method and teaching it to a smaller target group. Fieldworks and the result of their results through local workshops are important too, such as the creation and support of a website to integrate regional civil activities.
In Hungary, the number of people diagnosed with HIV has doubled in the last five years. Despite this, the support for the prevention is being reduced, and no sufficient emphasise is put on the screening of especially vulnerable groups (e.g..: homosexuals, sex workers, drug users). Volunteers and specialists work together in the project to have screening centres all over the country with no prejudices, where the members of the LGBT community, sex workers and drug users receive respectful services. Besides the screening centres, the workers will help the members of the vulnerable groups at community locations with advice on themes of prevention, screening and the management of life. The organisation plans to involve, train and put on the field 20 peer activists, besides providing services for 2000 people. Thanks to the project, the state services will be more sensitive to the needs of the vulnerable groups on one hand and the affected communities will be become more active in their advocacy for their interest and for the mutual help in the community. Finally, a health care policy suggestion will be compiled that could serve as the basis for a national AIDS strategy that takes into account the aspects of the vulnerable groups and is able to reduce the spread of the disease– which is everybody’s shared interest.
The goal of the project is to strengthen the capacity of NGOs, end to help their development. The organizers also aim to develop dialogue between stakeholders an establish the conditions for cooperation for joint planning and cooperation. The target groups are all civil initiatives, women, children and the Roma community. The main activities are joint planning about the future of the village, models of sustainable living, charitable activites, organizing welfare services, and the creation of a community non-profit organization.
Families with autistic members face difficulties day by day. Social actors, service providers and the legal system are not ready for the active appearance of autistic people in the society. They are victims of discrimination and legal impairment. The objective is to evolve a strong, transparent, democratic and cooperative organization that aims to manage efficient communication in order to involve members and partners, and build a high quality service system on the real needs. It contributes to the formation of a reliable and professional background, and an up-to-date database. Advocacy will become organized and efficient when the institutions will realize autism-specific services in education, health care and public services. The discrimination and the number of legal impairment will decrease and the quality of life of families gets better. The activities will be legal counseling, organizational development trough trainings, networking and presentations. The project gives IT and communication support for organizations, and the target group contains organizations that were established in order to support people and families who face autism.
The association prepares 10-14 years old children to be active, responsible citizens. With the help of dramapedagogy, financial workshops and through teaching debating techniques 40-50 children will benefit from the program. The goals are to broaden the world of the kids, to develop their debating and logical skills thus helping them to express their views independently.
At Hajdúhadház there is a strong need to have a complex program which improves the attitude towards children and having children. The association has been working for years to provide a social space where families and young people in similar situation can share their experiences. Fiksz pont wants to provide a complex service supporting families with children, teenagers and young people, which improves the social attitude towards children, families and having children, and helps young people to take responsibility. The organizers will provide clubs and services for different communitiesT to strengthen the unity of the families, encourage them to mobilise their resources and establish supportive small communities. The communities will be maintained even after the project is finished. Both communities will have a core team, which will continue working and the association will provide the space.
It does Matter is a cultural campaign and movement for human rights and tolerancy. The goal is to help the youth (14-18 y) to express themselves through literary forms (short stories, poems, slam) about prejudice, racism, hate speech, xenophobia, etc. A call is published for individuals and creative groups (schools, libraries) to join the project with the help of their teachers. Ten popular and devoted Hungarian writers join the campaign as well, who come from the target regions of the country. They motivate the participants at local workshops and festivals as the tutors of the project. All the events are fully covered and published on the project site and at Facebook. By the end of the pilot period (16 months) each mentor will provide a story of a local hero as an example for further projects in the participating schools so they can establish an annual prize. Therefore It does Matter campaign will become a community movement in Hungary.
The association provides counselling and sport opportunities for disadvantaged young people in Miskolc. Now they want to extend their portfolio with mobil sport and advisory service. They bring these services to the community hot spots of of the city and organize the programizes regularly, minimum 96 times. They also recruit volunteers on these occasions and train 15 of them who will be partly involved in the mobil service and partly placed at other NGOs.
Erzsébetváros is one of the inner districts of Budapest where the proportion of Roma is extremely high which indicates several social problems between the locals. The majority of young people haven't finished school, and have no jobs. This initiative aims to help disadvanted young people by creating a community bike repair service and train 6 young people to be bike mechanics. The participants will be mentored as well and they will be hired in the shop.
With this new initiative Baltazar Theater aims to encourage children growing up in the child protection system to participate in a creative campaign with the help of a poster designer contest. At the start 12 human values will be promoted on posters and the children will be asked to plan a 13th poster about a human value that is missing from the previous 12. Through personal meetings and events all child protection institutions, including the foster care network will actively be involved in the program.
This campaign helped people living with disabilities to recognise themselves in a new role, develop new skills, and new opportunities open up for them. Through this they could project an image of their real self, their aims and abilities. The campaign brought together and prepared people living with different dissabilities to performe a street dance with music. The action raised awareness about the hidden forces of a community and collective creativity.
The disadvantaged Roma youth rarely have the opportunity to create communication materials in cooperation with their peers, based on their own ideas and themes in a way that is also recognised by the majority society. The initiative, which will involve 12-13 year-old youth in South Baranya, will help them make their own films through drama activities and media workshops. The communal creative work will develop the knowledge and cooperation skills of the youth. The films created will be shared by public screenings and on the net. It will give the experience of success for the young, while society will be sensitized and will open a dialogue. The 5 films made by the 23 young people will demonstrate that the Roma youth are interested in many issues, have opinion on the world they are living in and are capable of making a difference – just like any member of any other group.
In the Hungarian society there are numerous music bands, which are based on exclusion and hatred. However, young people do not have a realistic alternative against these communities. This project aims is to establish a musical platform, where young people would have the chance to find opinions and attitudes in connection with social issues, in a safe, non-discriminatory way. Screaming For Change (SCF) is a musical, activist program, which combines the use of music on the Internet, with concerts and social matters. The program offers alternatives for secondary school and university students, against the excluding musical groups. The organizers aim to include musicians and young people who are interested in the topic, and with the help of music they will be encouraged to propose social questions and solutions.
PAPLAMENT deals with the criminalisation of homeless people and with the segregation and stigmatisation of the „ unworthy poor” in Hungary. This tendency has been growing since the system change, ending up in a number of discriminative laws in the past years (e.g. the culpability of street homelessness in the new Constitution) campaigns against homeless people on local and national level, illegal evacuation,s etc. The action counterattacks the simplifying public opinions and the mechanisms of representing homeless people in the mass media. In connection with the national and European elections and especially with the upcoming municipal election in October 2014 they organised a campaign together with the Budapest based open network Pneuma and with the German performance group Mobile Albania. They campaigned for an alternative mayor in the 8th district of Budapest. This district was one of the firsts to criminalise street homelessness. Coming from the short story of a homeless writer, Mókus Maxi (Maxi Squirrel) is a giant squirrel that has been constructed and filled with stories in the past years. Pneuma works with a growing network of inhabitants, homeless artists and activists. They create new forms of public sphere (street radio performances with Tilos Radio, a self-made local community newspaper, analogue news channels like „street chalk newspaper”) by inviting for common reflections on how the perspectives of the poor could be part of an open, inclusive society.
The video of NOLTV is available here: http://www.noltv.hu/video/5530.html
It is a daily news in the media that the poor, the unemployed and the public workers - mostly Roma people - are systematically punished for their poorly-equipped bicycles day by day and reveals a large number of examples for deliberate discrimination. The 24-hour police presence has been extended to the whole country, therefore the number of these cases is expected to rise further in the near future. The Hell Bell action raised attention about this unjust and unacceptable practice. The organizers collected bike equipments and repaired bikes at small villages in the Edelény micro region. With the perfectly equipped bikes they went on a ride to demonstrate in front of the policmen. As a final event a ringing bike-ride was organized in Budapest from the central police building to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
There is not enough social activity as regards to the fight against the discrimination of LGBT people, for the coming out of homosexual people and for the advocacy of LGBT rights.
The aim of this action is to encourage the LGBT society for self-awareness, pride and on the other hand to evoke and strengthen tolerance, solidarity, the feeling of responsibility and the fight for human rights of the heterosexual society.
A short film is created in the campaign conveys a complete message, but it also directs the attention to a flashmob that will be documented and it will reach an even wider audience when published. The positive message will reach several tens of thousands of people. Many people facing the problem of hiding as they live the life of the sexual minority. The campaigners encourage several hundreds of people to participate thus they will become the centre of a new forum as a result of the multi-layered media campaign and the online community of supporters. The campaign addresses both the hiding members of the community and also those who have come out already as well as the heterosexual society, those who are tolerant and those who reject or ignore homosexuality.
In the campaign the artists and crew of STEREO Akt count on the participation of civil organisations and individuals.
Amount of support: 7000 EUR
Sending organization: Milestone Association (http://www.merfoldkorehab.hu)
Host organization: Bergen Clinic Foundation (http://bergensklinikkene.no)
The aim of the internship was to learn about the treatment process in the field of the rehabilitation and resocialization of people living with some kind of addiction. The especially important objective of the scholarship was to learn about mentalization based treatment (MBT) that is an essential treament process in The Bergen Clinic Foundation, and an internationally accepted, important and well functioning treatment method.
Unfortunately it is an unknown and unused treatment process in the field of Hungarian addiction curing. So, the objective of the scholarship ess really important, not only for the Mérföldkő Association, but also, for the whole Hungarian profession.
Furthermore, an other substantial aim was to share our professional experience, and establish a long-term professional cooperation between the two institutions, for example in the field of research, professional development, and lobby.
Amount of support: 10 000 EUR
Sending organization: Barn Owl Foundation, Hungary (BOF) (http://gyongybagoly.hu/)
Host organization: SEEDS Iceland (http://www.seeds.is/)
The main goal of the internship project was to develop a partnership between SEEDS and the Barn Owl Foundation to initiate further cooperation on exchange programmes and community development. The intern investigated the possibilities of adapting organisational development and fundraising practices from Iceland to Hungary. Furthermore, he became familiar with NGO partners of the host organisation, learnt about their management and took part in the process of interviewing volunteers to learn about SEEDS’ selection procedure. The organizations plan a common project to ensure the adaptation of good practices on organisation management, volunteer selection procedure, efficient task allocation among professional volunteers and strengthen long term sustainability via working out a fund-raising plan for BOF according to the practices of SEEDS’ partner organisations.
Amount of support: 7000 EUR
Sending organization: Hungarian Association for Community Development (http://www.kka.hu)
Host organization: Citizens Foundation (http://citizens.is/)
The main goal of the internship project was to become acquainted with supporting the social network and community cohesion of people who live in a same area with the tools of e-democracy and to increase the participation of the citizens in the decision making prosecces.
The intern got to know the system of an advanced democracy while learning about the host organization's method to increase trust and participation in democracy. The intern studied the methodology of e-democracy and she recognized the important elements of the method with the help of the Citizens Foundation while she become involved in the host organization's Balkan e-democracy project. One of the most important aims of the project was to learn about grassroots community planning processes - the intern wrote a guide based on the icelandic experiences: how the tools of e-democracy can be adapted and used in Hungary.
Amount of support: 7000 EUR
Sending organization: Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (http://www.tasz.hu)
Host organization: Icelandic Human Rights Centre (http://www.humanrights.is/)
The main objective of the internship project was to learn about the Icelandic support system of people living with intellectual and psychosocial disability, in order to identify service and advocacy strategies that could be useful in Hungary. The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union’s Disability Rights Program is looking for best practices and new advocacy strategies currently unavailable or unknown in Hungary. By the end of the stay the intern collected advanced knowledge in at least two different areas of disability rights. The main focal points of the research program were the following: (1) service user’s advocacy strategies on reforming legal capacity; (2) supported living; (3) the political rigths of those under guardianship, the right to vote and to be elected, accesssibility in the election process; (4) supported parenthood, the regulation of the reproductive rigths of those under guardianship; (5) advocacy strategies of disabled people’s organisation, user-led services and user-controlled organisations. As the program dealt primarily with service user’s advocacy strategies on reforming legal capacity and supported living, the intern dedicated most of its time to these two major issues.