Gergő Rácz has joined to the Volunteer and Internship Programme of the Carpathian Foundation on the 13th of October, 2015. Gergő is completing is compulsory school community service at the Foundation. We talked about the role and importance of voluntariness.
Our Foundation started its activity - as a member of the Carpathian Foundation Network - in the Carpathian Euroregion 20 years ago. On this occasion we organized an international conference entitled ’The role of civil society…’. The past, present and future of the Carpathian Euroregion and the Carpathian Foundation were discussed in various panels; country directors of the Carpathian Foundations, representatives of donor organizations, development and grassroots organizations expressed their opinion regarding the main challenges of the Central and Eastern European civil society over the past 20 years.
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Carpathian Foundation discussions about the past, current and future challenges of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) civil society will be generated with the participation of our main stakeholders (key players in cross-border-cooperation, donor/(re-)granting organizations, development organizations from the countryside and grassroots) from Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Poland and Slovakia in order to change their ideas and share their experiences.
Our office will be closed from 24th of December till 3rd of January. In the spirit of the Holiday Season we would like to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
The Announcement of the Carpathian Equal Opportunities Scholarship Program in the academic year of 2015/16 was announced twice this year. There were personal interviews after the formal assessment of the applications. Based on the applications and the interviews the Committee adjudged two applicants to participate in the Scholarship Program – both of them have started their voluntary work at the beginning of October.
In 2014 the press was loud about the conflict between the Hungarian Government and the EEA/Norwegian NGO Fund. The Hungarian National Tax and Customs Administration upon the official request of the Hungarian Governmental Audit Office suspended the tax numbers of the Operator Foundations (Ökotárs, Autonómia, DemNet and Carpathian Foundations) of the EEA/Norwegian NGO Fund; at first the tax number of the Carpathian Foundation in September, 2014. Since then, the government’s actions against the ‘Norwegian civic organizations’ were unsuccessful. Currently there is silence – or calm before the storm….. Here comes a “brief and pithy” summary about this case.
It is exactly one year on September 8, since the police has illegally raided the offices of Ökotárs, its partners and the homes of its staff members thus bringing the dastardly crusade against NGOs to the maximum. Despite the indignifying series of attacks, Ökotárs and its partners have kept and keep on doing their jobs, including the operation of the EEA/Norwegian NGO Fund.
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On 22 April 2015, Ms. Colleen Bell, the Ambassador of the United States of America to Hungary, visited our Foundation during her trip in Eger in order to learn more about our organization’s activities, staff, and Board of Directors.
During the visit Mr. Sándor Köles, the chairman of the Board of Directors, presented to the Ambassador the history and the continuing ties of the Foundation to the United States, and later Boglárka Bata, the CEO of the Foundation, summarized the main focuses of our programs and the most considerable achievements of the organization.
„Travel, explore and present!”
The Hungarian Environmental Partnership Foundation - Ökotárs Alapítvány (HEPF) in cooperation with Autonomia Foundation, Foundation for Development of Democratic Rights (DEMNET) and the Carpathian Foundation-Hungary hereby announces a call for applications in the framework of the NGO Fund of the EEA/Norwegian Financial Mechanism for Hungarian NGOs to support study trips of young people to Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland (the donor countries).