Civil Prize 2018
NIOK Foundation awarded the Civil Prize to recognize and promote the best CSOs and the most successful projects in Hungary in 2018 again.
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Alternatives for Nuclear Power Evaluation Meeting in Prague
This year Central and South Eastern European NGOs participating in the Nuclear Risk and Public Control project discussed the new challenges regarding nuclear energy and elaborated their work plans for the next year in Prague.
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Greenbelt Program Results
In 2018, a total of 21 civic initiatives and condominium communities received support in the framework of the MOL Green Belt Program. Thanks to this, 15 community parks, 5 green condominium yards and 1 community garden were created.
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For the Fourth Time - Grant Program in Cooperation with Tesco and the Hungarian Donors' Forum
Experts of Ökotárs participated again in the managing and evaluation of Tesco's "You choose, we help" community grant program.
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Civil Meetings in Pécs and Debrecen
Following the 2017 autumn tour and on the occasion of the Week of Citizen Participation, Ökotárs organized further local meetings in two cities, with the aim to present best practices of effective civic skills with the help of representatives of experienced organizations, such as fundraising, advocacy, and network development.
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The European Tree of the Year in 2018 is the Whistler Cork Oak Tree from Portugal
Only the nominees of Portugal, Spain, and Russia finished the competition ahead of Zengővárkony's survivor, the sweet chestnut in the European Year Tree competition in 2018.
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Our Community Organizing Work Continues in 8 Settlements
Launched in 2016, the Community-Organizing-Leadership program continued in 2018, too. Following the evaluation of the call for proposals at the beginning of the year, Ökotárs supported the efforts of local women community organizers and community groups in 8 cities and villages to make their settlements more liveable.
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The Roadshow Continues in Miskolc
Encouraged by the success and popularity of the 5-stop birthday roadshow in the previous year Ökotárs - along with many other civil society organizations - continued the series of events in 2018 by visiting new cities.
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Communication Training for Rural CSOs has been Completed
Starting in autumn 2017, Ökotárs has organized a half-year long training and mentoring program to improve the local and regional visibility and awareness of 25 CSOs in five major countryside cities.
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135 civil society organisations stand up for their peers working for local communities and for a peaceful Hungary
19 December 2018 - Following the steps of the Hungarian government, during the past week elected local representatives in several Hungarian cities launched attacks on Hungarian civil society organisations (CSOs), working for the benefit of communities and the Hungarian society, questioning their credibility and compromising their operations. We, 135 Hungarian CSOs, providing support to widest variety of social groups and people, stand up for those under attack and reject these attempts to stigmatise them. It is Hungary’s common interest that CSOs can work freely and without intimidation to help local communities.
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118 Civil Society Organisations Stand Up
As a reaction to the attacks of the local governments in Kaposvár, Miskolc and Pécs in December, 118 CSOs declared in a joint resolution that the affected CSOs deserve support and not attacks.
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Green Belt 2017/18
115 applications were submitted to the Green Belt program's 2017 call, 29 of them - more than twice as much as last year - came from condominium houses, the rest from CSOs.
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