Be a Part of the Whole!
Campaign for Citizenship and Democracy
Citizen Participation Week 2009
The Honorary Patron for the event was Mr. Elemér Hankiss sociologist
International organizer and co-ordinator: Central and Eastern European Citizens Network
(www.ceecn.net)
Main organizers in Hungary:
Civil College Foundation
Hungarian Institute for Culture
Association for Developing Community Involvement
Vocational Network for Supporting Community Initiatives
Hungarian Institute for Culture and Art
Between 21th and 27th September hundreds of civil organizations ran a campaign for raising
awareness on citizen participation and local action at 215 local, small regional and regional
events.
As a new attraction, this year we made video interviews about citizen’s participation with well-known
Hungarian opinion leaders, each day of the CPW.
Hankiss Elemér
Rutkai Bori
Lányi András
Sebő Ferenc
Kristin Faurest
Varnus Xavér
Ferge Zsuzsa
Interviews on www.arh.kozossegfejlesztes.hu!
Similarly to previous years, the programme was following two main threads: a national random sample
survey, and local and national events.
Survey:
The survey was about the highlight the level of citizen’s participation in Hungary. The HACD
collected more than 4600 questioners from all around Hungary. Results on CPW site!
Opening Event, 21th of
September.
Hungary will be weaker without
civil society!
A demonstration had been organized
against the operating fundraising
systems in Hungary. The increasing
number of systematic problems
brought several civic organizations to
the headquarters of the major
distributor.
Since that time, a movement has
been formulated, with concentrated
activities, own website and dozens of
media reflections.
The negotiations are still going on
with the government representatives.
Closing event, 27th of September.
See children live! – “World café”
on school democracy
Teachers, youth workers and other
professionals met the children and
discussed the present and future in
relation with school democracy. A
well known Budapest trupp
performed the highlights of the event.
Results in short:
- 215 activities were implemented all over Hungary within the CPW
- As a new attraction, this year we made video interviews about citizen’s participation with wellknown Hungarian opinion leaders each day of the CPW
- Following the Hungarian CPW’s main focuses (equal chances; youth issues; inclusion of local
authorities) wide scope, cross -sectorial cooperations were formulated. Dozens of activities had
been carried out to get closer to the overall changes on these fields.
- National survey was implemented about the level of citizens participation
- The media was helpful and interested, 80-120 media reflections had been collected
- Long-term cooperation was formulated between hundreds of NGOs to renew the Hungarian
fundraising/supporting system.
Results, reports, pictures on www.arh.blogol.hu
Programmes implemented, backround information on
www.arh.kozossegfejlesztes.hu
Máté Varga
2010-02-12