Following the successful two-day kick-off training course involving 16 local CSOs, Ökotárs and its partners - Autonomia, Civil College and Carpathian Foundations - launched a small-scale grant call for local CSOs and informal citizen groups outside Budapest to implement joint campaigns on issues defined together, to organize in order to solve the problems experienced in their micro-region as well as to strengthen civic activism. Our long-term goal is to help local and regional civic cooperation, the development of small networks of active groups and organisations, and to contribute to broadening civic cooperation in general, expanding the membership and constituences of existing coalitions, and making the entire Hungarian civil society more resilient, active and visible. The evaluation committee consisting of representatives of the partners awareded a grant to 8 of the 16 applications received,from Zala, Szombathely, Győr, Komárom, Kaposvár, Miskolc, Heves and Nógrád.
