Annual Report 2000: Hungariran Association for Community Development (Közösségfejlesztők Egyesülete) & Civil College Foundation Hungary

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Cím:	Annual Report 2000: Hungariran Association for Community Development (Közösségfejlesztők Egyesülete) & Civil College Foundation Hungary
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Ország:	Magyarország
A kiadás helye:	Budapest
A kiadás éve:	2001
Kiadó:	Civil Kollégium Alapítvány
Terjedelem:	16
Nyelv:	angol
Tárgyszavak:	éves jelentés, Civil Kollégium Alapítvány
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ANNUAL REPORT
CIVIL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
HUNGARY
2000

Our Mission

Our work has continued to be characterised by the three-fold reference of the Civil College’s:
· national training organisation and people’s academy for the actors of local action (who work in community development projects);
· the development of the skills of initiation and action among the inhabitants of the Felső-Kiskunság small region, the area surrounding the Training Centre in Kunbábony, and, building on this, the fulfilment of the function of a local people’s academy;
· the institution of professional community development training.

Training courses
Most of our civil training courses are weekend courses, and that training a group may take several weekends. Our courses on community enterprising usually take 2x5 days. The field works of the professional community development training courses take 4-5 days, which can be prolonged if desired. The number of participants attending our courses is usually somewhere between 14 and 32.

Our courses have been characterised by collective planning and the treatment and sharing of experiences in the community. The participants of the courses usually come from the local projects of our nation-wide organisation. They co-operate with the organisation, or with the nearest community development worker or organisation, both before and after training.

As far as the professional training is concerned, the present situation is that, in want of enough trained professionals, we are not able to fully meet the demands for our work from the side of higher-education. Thus, training professionals and the “Trainer Training” Programme will bear primary importance in the future. (See CD Partnership Building Programme in Central and Eastern Europe)

Our main sponsors and partners:

· Northern College, Barnsley, UK – professional co-operation
· ELTE TFK Department of Cultural Management – curriculum development
· ELTE BTK Department of Social Work – curriculum development
· Charity Know How – the preparation of the Hungarian versions of 6 modules on democracy, the development of the Hungarian version of the “Thinking about Democracy” programme
· private donor
· Hungarian Institute for Culture – professional and technical co-operation
· Job Centre of Bács-Kiskun County – training for community enterprising
· EU SOCRATES-PEDEC Programme – joining the Democracy Programme

The Activities of the Civil College in 2000

The activities of our organisation, which was founded in 1994, were enriched by 3 novelties:
· the training courses of the Small Grants Programme organised in co-operation with the Association for Community Development. This programme encourages self-help and local action through providing minor donations, training and following-up projects,
· follow-up training courses and seminars for the leaders and activists of Gypsy community centres,
· the elaboration and introduction of new curricula:
a) application for the accreditation of providing post-gradual training in „Community Work” in co-operation with the Social Work Department of the ELTE,
b) the preparation of the materials for social workers taught at the 60-hour-long further training in „Community Work”,
c) the subject of „Civil Society & Non-Profit Organisations” to be introduced to higher-education, and its experimental teaching.

New Curricula
a-b) „Community Work”
The application for the accreditation of providing post-gradual training in „Community Work” in co-operation with the Social Work Department of the ELTE has brought a real breakthrough in our work. In the framework of this application we summarised and divided our experiences, written materials as well as analyses and translations conducted by us in community work into different subjects. This work would not have been possible without Community Database, which now has arrived at a point of quality in its development: almost all of its materials have been made accessible in full length and free of charge at the home page of: www.kkapcsolat.hu or www.kozossegfejlesztes.hu
The accreditation of “Community Work” is in progress. It is most likely that the first year will be organised in the 2002/2003 academic year. It is also important to note that the already elaborated programme has had a productive effect on our present training courses: it has been partially or completely built in our training courses on community development, and it has renewed them.
The 60-hour further training material of “Community Work”, which is also being accredited, is a considerably shorter version of this programme.

c) „Civil Society & Non-profit Organisations”
The next significant curriculum development programme was the subject of “Civil Society & Non-profit Organisations”, which is to be introduced in higher-education, and its pilot training course.
We developed the curriculum development programme in co-operation with the Department of Cultural Management at the ELTE TFK, and on behalf of the Civic Relations Department of the Prime Minister’s Office. In the 2000/2001 academic year we held the pilot training courses organised by the Department of Cultural Management at the ELTE TFK for both regular and correspondence students.
This curriculum programme is also significant because it has set the introduction of teaching democracy as an objective in every higher-educational institution. The Prime Minister’s Office has introduced the developed programme to the representatives of universities and colleges, and it has made recommendations to them. Around 20 of them have adopted the programme.
The pilot course had made it clear that the programme is an important source of becoming active citizens and responsible intellectuals.
Development and project work

1. Follow-up Programme for Gypsies with the participation of leaders and activists of community centres

The “Follow-Up Programme” is the continuation of the “Community Centre” training series organised in the first half of 1999-2000. The objective of the programme is to develop the work of the most promising centres to obtain model value.

The local community workers are assisted by external development workers who work on behalf of the Association for Community Development. Local development work is completed by training courses and seminars from time to time.

The project was started being carried out in October 2000. We have got in touch with the representatives of the 8 community centres indicated in the project, we have identified the circle of external development workers who represent us in the project, and we have prepared them for project work.

2. “Thinking about Democracy” Project

In the course of the project, the Civil College had further 5 training modules, which had been developed in the UK, translated into Hungarian, after which the web-versions of the modules were prepared and were put on the Internet homepage of the College:

· Citizenship, Democracy and Europe
· Citizenship, Democracy and Environment
· Citizenship, Democracy and Women
· Citizenship, Democracy and Work
· Citizenship, Democracy and Community

The original modules were prepared by the professionals of the Northern College and the University of Leeds. The modules highlight the different aspects of democracy, and they also build on the experiences and independent activities of students.

Parallel to translating, we organised the “Trainer Training” programme under the leadership of John Grayson and Colin Thorne, tutors from the Northern College. In the course of the programme, 12 Hungarian trainers were prepared for teaching the first module – Thinking about Democracy -, while they also prepared its Hungarian version – Hungarian examples were included, parts were omitted and added, and a new bibliography was prepared.

The new training materials developed during the project provided the training organisation of the Civil College with new training materials that can be studied on the computer and in a playful enjoyable way, and with new know-hows that can be applied in the long term. The power and chances of the organisation in effectively building democracy were therefore improved to a significant extent. The tutors training the activists of civil organisation will now be able to face active local citizens with the wider contexts of their voluntary work, and with the adequate issues of democracy, citizenship and our broader home, Europe. This knowledge completes the knowledge on community development well, since the most important context for interpreting community development is civil society and democracy.

It has become an aim of ours to have the Northern College, the Civil College, and the Hungarian Association for Community Development organises a “Trainer Training” programme for each module. During the programmes, the teachers of different subjects would be trained and the Hungarian versions of the modules prepared with the methods already tested. We consider it very important to have as many trained tutors from the target groups specified in the modules as possible (environmentalists, women, civil organisations active in job creation, community workers).

3. Community Development Partnership Building in Central and Eastern Europe

In November 2000 the Association for Community Development and the Civil College started preparing for a Central-Eastern European regional community development programme. The duration of the programme is 2 years, and it will take place between 2001-2002. The core of the programme will be a “Training the Trainers” programme (to be carried out in Hungary). The result and next step will be that every participating organisation will organise a local training programme in its home country. Our local programme will be the first academic course in the profession of “Community Development”, as it was recently registered in the National Training Register. The final event of the project will be conference where we will report on our results. The conference will be attended by further community development professionals from the region, and it will be held in Romania.

Participating Organisations:

Hungary:

Hungarian Association for Community Development in partnership with the Civil College Foundation and Intercommunity Foundation

Slovakia:

VOKA

Romania:

Human Reform Foundation in partnership with the

Regional Association for Community Development, Regional Community Development Agency and Romanian Association for Community Development

Poland:

Local Activity Support Centre - CAL Association

The project will start being carried out in May 2001. May 24. As a result, the number of teachers capable of teaching community work will increase in all the participating countries, and network as well as partnership building will be started among community development organisations of the Central-Eastern European region.

4. In the Small Region of Felső-Kiskunság

The Civil College performs development work in the Felső-Kiskunság in co-operation with the Association for Community Developm

ent, since community development activities reveal training needs, and the training course result in further community action.

Partnership-building

1. National relations

In 2000 partnership-building and the presentation of the efforts and practice of the Civil College in Hungary and abroad played an important role during our work. Important new co-operations were born or outlined on both the regional level (in the county of Bács-Kiskun) and the national level with voluntary, training, and grantor organisations, and professional unions. We have been much more active in terms of providing expertise in organising EU and Hungarian national as well as regional programmes.

2. International relations

A new chapter has been started in the area our international relations by the Central-Eastern European Co-operation Programme, which aims at organising community development organisations in the region into a network, and at regularising the exchange of regional experiences.

We carried on with and strengthened our international relations, particularly with the Northern College in UK.

Financial Report

Expenditure	in 1000 HUF
I. Personal allowances & benefits paid by the employer:	7 389
Where: regular personal allowances irregular personal allowances personal allowances for non-staff members social insurance benefits employer-paid benefits	3 972 201 1 131 1 904 181
II. Material expenditure and other running expenses in total:	11 572
II/1. Material expenditure:	11 497
Where: purchase of materials and supplies: service costs in total: where: - overhead costs (gas, water, electricity, etc.) - rent - transportation, travel costs: communication costs (telephone & postage)	3 697 7 160 172 477 100 640
II/2. Other running expenses in total: (budgetary payments, taxes, fees, etc.)	75
III. Accumulation (investment and renovation) costs:	1 290
TOTAL EXPENDITURE:	20 251
Income:
Income from performing main activity:	9 470
Income from enterprising:	380
Income from applying for grants (please find details enclosed):	9 407
Income from interest rates:	118
Other:	81
TOTAL INCOME:	19 096

Grants & Income Received in 2000:	in 1000 HUF
Private donor	8 430
Northern College	617
in total	9 047

Plans

Professional Training

· We will organise a “Trainer Training” Program with the involvement of Polish, Romanian, Slovakian and Hungarian professionals.
· We will organise the first higher-educational level professional training course in community development for piloting groups. The tutors of the courses will be the people trained at the “Trainer Training” Courses.
· We have to make the best of our authorisation for organising extension training for teachers, we have to advertise the courses and must meet emerging demands.
· We need to further influence the professional training processes launched in higher-educational institutions.
· Our participation in EU programs, in the training courses organised for the colleagues of the new institutions (e.g. small regional managers). The number of these people will certainly increase in the future.
· Our interior training concerning the strengthening of our association and network-building covers 5 professional courses (1 course per 4 county).

Civil Training Courses

· In the future, we would like to organise a gradually increasing number of training courses in the framework of the Small Grants Program, and we would also like to increase the number of local training courses serving the small regional development work performed in the Upper-Kiskunság. The chances are that we will get commissions from the state and foundations on a regular basis.
· In order to be able to teach the modules on democracy in a wider range, we will organise further “trainer training” courses in 2001-2001, primarily with the involvement of young professionals and the interest groups concerned (environmentalists, women, people active in job creation, community workers). The 4 training courses planned concern 4 training groups – each of these groups will be given a one-week residential course and a weekend one. The one-week course will deal with the first two modules (“Thinking about Democracy” and “Democracy, Citizenship and Europe”), while at the week-end course the module relevant to the target group will be taught (“Democracy, Citizenship and Environment”, “Democracy, Citizenship and Women”, “Democracy, Citizenship and Work” and “Democracy, Citizenship and Community”. In the framework of our experimental projects we will hold training courses on democracy as well. According to our preliminary calculations, this will cover 2 weekend courses per year in the case of Ózd and its region, and 3 training courses per year in the region of the Upper-Kiskunság.
· We will also train local community activists and volunteering community workers in the framework of our experimental projects. This covers 4 week-end courses per year in Ózd and the surrounding area, and 2 course per year in the Upper-Kiskunság. The training for Gypsy community activists covers 3 weekend courses in 2001.

Pilot project in the small region of Ózd

In 2000 the Institute for Culture in the County of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, the Association for Community Development and the Civil College created the basis for long-term co-operation. The objective is to launch great-scale local processes of self-help and organisation, primarily in the circle of those who, for several reasons (poor education, unemployment or low-prestige work providing a minimum standard of living, poverty – and what they often entail: minority status -, lack of information, isolation, etc.), cannot find their feet at once among the circumstances that have evolved by today, and cannot take their opportunities – without professional assistance.
The preparation of the programme has been done, and funds are being raised at the moment. Our partner organisation in England, the Northern College has also taken on a significant role. Together with the college, a Swedish and a Catalan organisation for adult education, the Institute for Culture in the County of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, and the Civil College, we have applied for a grant to the Gruntvig Programme of the EU and the Access Programme of PHARE.
The training courses organised in the framework in the programme will point beyond our scope, and they will prepare for a constantly working civil training organisation, which is to be established in the region.

Training Courses Planned in the Small Region of Ózd:
Training for local volunteers
· Training and employing community workers
· Launching adult training programmes
· Further training for educational professionals, teachers and social workers in the subject of “Community Work”
· “Training the Trainers” Programme (establishing a circle of teachers)
· Training volunteers in order to improve the effectiveness of civil action
· Training in community economic development

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