News

Our Community Organizing Work Continues in 8 Settlements

2018.03.09. 00:00

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.

The Roadshow Continues in Miskolc

2018.03.07. 00:00

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.

Communication Training for Rural CSOs has been Completed

2018.02.15. 00:00

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.

135 civil society organisations stand up for their peers working for local communities and for a peaceful Hungary

2017.12.20. 16:23

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.

118 Civil Society Organisations Stand Up

2017.12.18. 00:00

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.

Green Belt 2017/18

2017.11.28. 00:00

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.

Community-Organizing-Leadership Closing Meetings: "Everything is Possible with Community Cooperation"

2017.11.24. 00:00

The film and publication summarizing the experience and results of the 2016-2017 period of the ComOrgLead program was released at the closing meeting or the program.

ALDA LADDER Closing Conference in Strasbourg

2017.11.22. 00:00

Ökotárs has cooperated with the European Association for Local Democracy (ALDA) since 2016. Our program manager participated at the closing conference of the association's LADDER project in Strasbourg.

The Prime Minister's Office Found the Implementation of the EEA/Norwegian NGO Programme Successful

2017.11.17. 00:00

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.