News
The Prime Minister's Office Found the Implementation of the EEA/Norwegian NGO Programme Successful
On November 16, 2017, the Hungarian closing conference of the EEA and Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2009-2014 program was held, where the Deputy Head of Department of the Prime Minister's Office acknowledged the results of the Financial Mechanism Office (FMO) and the NGO Programme as well in his opening speech.
EPA Annual Meeting in Cieszyn
The annual meeting of the Environmental Partnership Association, the regional umbrella of Ökotárs and its sister foundations took place this year in this symbolic town on the Polish-Czech border.
Zengővárkony's Survivor, the Sweet Chestnut Is the Tree of the Year in Hungary
More than 18,000 people voted for the trees participating in the Tree of the Year contest from the beginning of September to the middle of October.
Green Belt 2017/18 Call Announced
MOL Hungary and Ökotárs announced the Green Belt program for the twelfth time.
Birthday Roadshow
In cooperation with many other civil society organizations, the 25-year-old Ökotárs Foundation launched a nationwide roadshow this October.
Voting in the HungarianTree of the Year Contest
From among the 48 trees nominated to the contest, 13 that are important for their communities were shortlisted by Ökotárs' professional jury to be put up for voting. The nominees of 2017 and the previous years as well can be found on the evfaja.okotars.hu page.
USAID CSO Sustainability Report 2016 Is Published
CSOs and individuals throughout Europe and Eurasia learn more and more about how to work in a restrictive external environment: seeking new ways of lobbying, mobilising citizens and raising funds.
Visit of Ökotárs's Founders
Retired leaders of the German Marshall Fund and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, two organisations instrumental in the creation of Ökotárs revisited Central Europe after many years meeting the staff in Budapest, too.
Stockholm Civil Society Days
The Swedish organization Kvinna til Kvinna (Women to Women) invited the director of Ökotárs to participate at the traditional Stockholm Civil Society Days, where she presented the situation and the issues of Hungarian civil society at several panels and workshops.
