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Civil Map: workshop and training
Our training for civil society organizations mapped during the preceding months discussed topics such as civic roles, cooperation among active communities, building local networks, mobilization, advocacy and participation in local affairs. Besides the experts of the Civil College Foundation and the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, guest speakers from neighboring countries, Slovakia and Romania...
We won! – and the nomination for the Tree of the Year 2019 competition begins
For the first time after three years, in 2019 the Hungarian tree became the winner of the European Tree of the Year competition.
Our Common Values - Civilisation Manifesto
"The Civilisation coalition published its manifesto on the occasion of March 15, signed by over a hundred organizations, including Ökotárs."
Our new project: LIFE Treecheck
The project, supported by the European Union's LIFE program until the summer of 2022, was launched in earnest with a joint meeting in early 2019. The initiative, led by our Czech sister foundation Nadace Partneství and joined by eight organizations from the Visegrád-4 countries, aims at reducing the urban heat island effect by the development of green infrastructure that helps adapt to the...
Joint Press Conference on the "Stop Soros" Draft Bill
16 civil society organizations rejected at a joint press conference the deceiving, arbitrary and destructive proposal published by the government a few days earlier.
New Community-Organizing-Leadership Call for Applications
The aim of the program continuing in 2019 is to increase the empowerment, advocacy and mobilizing capacity of the Hungarian civil society and to strengthen the effective citizen control of public authorities, institutions and market players.
Cooperation with the Hungarian Donors Forum
In the autumn Ökotárs's employees participated as experts in the evaluation of the applications received in the framework of small grant programs by Auchan Hungary, Tesco, Vodafone and E-on. The programs were operated by the Hungarian Donors Forum.
Civil Meeting in Nagykanizsa
With the cooperation of the Zala Villages Association and the Nagykanizsa Civil Round Table, at the last Civil Meeting of the year we met with representatives of several small towns in Zala and dicussed about opportunities to develop and mobilize communities in the small villages.
Situation of the Civil Sector was Discussed at the EU Colloquium on Fundamental Rights
In 2018, the European Commission organized its Annual Colloquium on Fundamental Rights in Brussels for the fourth time. The keywords of this year's event drawing about 400 attendants were "Democracy in the European Union", grouped around three main themes: resilient and inclusive democracy, free and strong civil society, free and fair elections.
