On 15 February 2024, the Board of Directors of the Carpathian Foundation awarded a grant of HUF 16 million to four NGOs in the Early Years Matter Program, with HUF 4 million each. The Hungarian Roma Association of Szomolya, the Somnakuno Drom Roma Women's Civil Association of Nagykálló, the SZETA Eger and the 21st Century Roma Women's National Association of Nyíregyháza  got the grant for early skills development of marginalized children in the North-Eastern Hungary region until the end of the year.

On 7 February 2024, we organised the third meeting in Nyíregyháza to build a platform for inclusive early childhood services.

The aim of the platform is to improve the accessibility and quality of early childhood services in Hungary through the cooperation and joint action of families, parents, institutions and civil society actors, to ensure that everyone has access to them, that everyone can use them, and that the proper development of young children is ensured for all through quality education, upbringing, care and other services.

In April 2023, the Carpathians Foundation - Hungary launched a new project entitled "From the Alps to the Carpathians - Strengthening governance models for sustainable development in mountainous areas of Central Europe", supported by the European Regional Development Fund Interreg Central Europe Programme 2021-2027.

LEGO Clubs: Development and Community with LEGO

31/03/2024 – 01/10/2023

In April 2023, the Carpathian Foundation - Hungary launched a new project entitled "From the Alps to the Carpathians - Strengthening governance models for sustainable development in mountain areas of Central Europe".

More information:

https://www.karpatokalapitvany.hu/en/fromthealpstothecarpathians

Financial and administrative assistant

We need a dedicated colleague who is willing to use his/her economic knowledge to help us in financial and administrative tasks. Anyone who has worked in a similar field will know that the world of projects, donations, and grants is a very demanding one, it requires accuracy. So only those who can cope with it are welcome to apply. You are rule-following, can cope with monotonous workflows and are not afraid of administration. You are familiar with Excel and have worked with invoices (primarily project related).

Tasks:

Carpathian Civil Society Platform is driven by the common vision to strengthen a vibrant, pluralistic, and rights-based civil society in the territory of the Carpathian Euroregion. The Platform supports collaboration among those civil society organizations who work for the most marginalized and vulnerable communities in the Carpathian Euroregion. It is aimed to strengthen the influence and weight of civil society by capacity development with creating networks for local and interregional networks, exchange of experience, knowledge and best practices of social innovation.

Members of our Civil Map programme proects in North-East Hungary participated in a two-day network meeting with projet organisations from Pest County in the framework of the Week of Participation. During the opening workshop, the colleagues from Heves, Nógrád and Pest counties got to know each other, presented their projects in an informal press conference and brought the civil map to life. The next day, they visited Pomáz, Pilismaróton and Budakalász, where they heard from local activists about actions organised around local issues.

Through our programme Civil Térkép (Civil Map), two local initiatives have been granted. The winning applicants have recently used community organising methodology to map current local issues in their localities and to activate, involve and organise local residents to empower them to take action in their communities.

WINNING APPLICATIONS

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