On 20 March 2025, the Carpathian Foundation's Board of Directors awarded a total HUF 12 million in grants to four local partners within our Early Years Matters Program. The funded projects will provide early skills development for children living in poverty and strengthen the parenting skills of their parents in four settlements in north-eastern Hungary.
Last week, the Early Childhood Platform met again, this time at the Garden City Kindergarten in Eger, where we planned our activities for the whole day. We also made a lot of progress in terms of network building (membership, membership fees, etc.) and communication (website, social media, introductory video, image). We have planned the details of our first joint application and prepared the program for the first Early Childhood Conference in Eger on 21 May 2025. At the end of the meeting, the participants made pledges for future tasks and set the date for the next online consultation.
In the "From the Alps to the Carpathians" project, we are preparing a collection of good practices of Hungarian, Romanian, Polish, Ukrainian and Slovak NGOs. We are currently working on the call for applications for the Carpathian Social Innovation Award and the technical preparation of the 2025 "Summer Camp" is underway.
Cross-border cooperation and donations have never been more important than now. From 9-11 October 2024, the Carpathian Foundation hosted the annual steering committee meeting of Transnational Giving Europe (TGE) in Budapest.
We are pleased to announce the launch of , the Carpathian Civil Society Platform website karpatnet.com, which aims to facilitate more effective cooperation and partnering between civil society organisations in the Carpathian region. Register your organisation and get involved in the Carpathian Civil Society Network: https://www.karpatnet.com
We are excited to announce- in the From Alps to the Carpathians project- a significant step forward in our mission to strengthen civil society across the Carpathian region: the development of a Virtual HUB, dedicated to supporting NGOs and civil society organizations. This initiative is part of our ongoing effort to foster cooperation, provide up-to-date information on funding opportunities, and create a dynamic space for partner-finding.
Within the framework of the “Central Mountains” project “Carpathian Civil Society Platform”, the Carpathian Foundation-Hungary (Carpathian Foundation-Ukraine, ETP Slovakia, Peritum Foundation-Poland, SZMISZ-Romania) are working together to revitalize the virtual platform created a few years ago, which a few years ago to give civil society organisations in the Carpathian Basin the opportunity to cross-border partnerships, to exchange information and experience, to exchange experiences and to learning from each other, sharing knowledge, experience and good practices.
We are very pleased to announce that the Carpathian Foundation was represented at the Central Mountains project meeting, which took place in Mallnitz, 4-6 June 2024. The event was attended by the President of the Board of Directors of our Foundation, Sándor Köles, and our colleague Mercédesz Németh.
Carpathian Civil Society Platform for a lasting impact
Project ID #/Title: 22410009
Project title: Carpathian Civil Society Platform for a lasting impact
Background:
Today we were able to donate supplies (medicine, medical supplies, bandages, etc.) worth more than HUF 1 million to our Ukrainian colleagues to be sent to hospitals in Transcarpathia! Thank you for the support from which you made this donation possible. We are continuing to collect for this purpose in our Emergency Response Fund for Ukrainians, with which we would like to further support civil society organizations and civic initiatives helping refugees fleeing to Hungary from Ukraine! Thank You!
