The National Cultural Support Agency’s EaSI National Contact Point featured the National Laboratory for Social Innovation, the Network for Regional Development Foundation and the DAT programme among others on 17 May, 2024.
The aim of the event is to present the objectives of the EaSI Programme and the current calls for tenders, to promote the interest of potential organisations in Hungary by presenting good examples, successful projects and sharing experiences.
“Social innovation initiatives have great potential to make a huge difference to communities. They can have an impact by supporting and facilitating members of society. This is why social innovators need to be active: through their work they can create new values, new attitudes, new social relationships and new structures to solve problems”, said Irén Szántai, delegated director general of the National Fund for Culture.
The participants of the professional day were introduced to the work of the National Laboratory for Social Innovation and the EaSI National Competence Centre, which will be launched in the summer of 2024, by project managers Ákos Pozsonyi and Katalin Barna. The new National Competence Centre will be launched with Austrian, Slovakian, Maltese and Latvian partners with Eötvös Loránd University. The three-year programme will involve complex social innovation mapping at consortium level, the setting up of living labs and learning material development.
Szabolcs Hollósi, president of the Network for Regional Development Foundation (HÁRFA), presented the organisation’s social innovation activities and related projects. As a founding member of the National Laboratory for Social Innovation consortium, Network for Regional Development Foundation is responsible for the implementation of the pilot developments, as well as the management of the mentor network and two thematic forums. Visitors were also able to learn about the GRESODI and Miskolc 4IM projects.
Andrea Perlusz, deputy dean of Bárczi Gusztáv Faculty of Special Needs Education at Eötvös Loránd University, spoke to the participants about the unique disability awareness programme developed by the Faculty’s staff in the framework of National Laboratory for Social Innovation. The DAT programme is specifically implemented in a market context.
All presentations of the event are available here in Hungarian.
Source: EaSI
Cover photo: presentation by Ákos Pozsonyi at the event