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Project
Partner
Hungary
Active
Citizenship Foundation
The Active Citizenship Foundation is an independent non profit
organisation established in 2007. We would like to contribute to the
situation when Hungarians look at themselves as ones, who are willing
and able to cooperate in the development of an open, cohesive and
democratic society which in effect is also the basis for an economic
development.
We are convinced that the prerequisites of a democratic and active
citizenship are such knowledge, such a skill and such an attitude,
that does not develop automatically but needs to be learned. The
Active Citizenship Foundation aims to actively participate in this
democracy learning.
In the area of networking and policy work, we believe that education
for active citizenship is an important issue around Europe, and
globally as well. The last couple of years, there have been wide
political governmental discussions to underline this in many European
countries, such as Great Britain, Belgium, Ireland and Austria. While
in Hungary, the various governmental steps taken in this case have not
resulted in any extensive political changes, and there is no
widespread dialogue about this issue at all.
If the main goals of our foundation is to create a professional
network for education for active citizenship, where the common goal
and main activities will be the cooperation, the situation evaluation
and the exchange of experiences between the different areas of
specialities, as well as the drafting of a common agenda.
With the gathering and processing of documents of the international
organizations such as the UN, European Union and the Council of
Europe, and with the joint cooperation of the professional community,
we wish to work out national strategy and policy recommendations. We
also consider it important to monitor international policy
recommendations as well as the realization of trends.
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