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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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Eszter Hegedüs, a fourth-year law student at the University of Debrecen, has been selected as a student of the Carpathian Foundation's Carpathian Equal Opportunities Scholarship Program for the academic year 2023/2024. She is particularly interested in equal opportunities, labour law and child protection issues in all areas of law. She is characterized by active community-building activities, continuous scientific research and excellent academic results. She spends her internship at the Rainbow in the Rain Foundation: https://szivarvanyazesoben.hu/

Our Foundation's staff member Beáta Csomós participated in the International Step by Step Association (ISSA) international NGO conference #ISSAConnects for Learning 2023, which brought together ISSA members from Europe, Central Asia and beyond in Opatija, Croatia. The Carpathians Foundation became a member of ISSA in 2023, as the key to our professional development in the field of early skills care is to gain new knowledge and partners.

Our Board of Directors has awarded another HUF 1,000,000 grant to the Eger-based Foundation of the Fund for the Poor in Eger for its project "SZETA Kindergarten". Within the project, the organization holds 4 "indoor" and "outdoor" disadvantage compensating sessions for preschool children in the Béke-telep in Felnémet and organizes excursions for them.

We spent a whole day in Eger with brainstorming on how to set up a platform for inclusive early childhood services with CSOs from the field and participating in the Early Years Matter Program of the Carpathian Foundation, and other relevant experts, professionals.

Code of the project: CE0100083

Between July and September 2023, the National Association of Roma Women of the 21st Century of Nyíregyháza will continue its activities in the "Help yourself 3... " and the Somnakuno Drom Roma Women's NGO "Diverse summer" projects. They received a grant of 1.5 million HUF from the Carpathian Emergency Response Fund for the Ukrainians Program .

Haley and Nick are participated in the Georgia Institute of Technology's Leadership and Social Impact Study Abroad program Georgia in Atlanta, GA, where they spend their summer internships developing our Foundation's English-language communications and resource creation activities.