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The Hungarian Association for Community Development

was founded in 1989 by a group of progressive-minded adult education professionals who were convinced that people have the right and responsibility to participate in shaping the world around them, but this also requires professional help and encouragement.

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Providing information about

– Hungary (the social context and the context of communities)
– current conditions of communities, methodologies used, actual trends within the civil sector and professional partnerships
– active professional organizations and community development consultants in the field

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Taking part in professional consultancy and professional discussions regarding

– civil society and community issues (development approaches, methodologies, current challenges, Hungarian trends etc.);
– specific professional topics, especially with regards to assisting community initiatives, community-based development processes, participation-based methodology, mobilization of communities living in poverty and community-based service design.

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Contributing to bilateral learning and training programs

– The HACD is a certified Hungarian adult education institute, organizing its own training programs and publishing its own training materials
– We are open to adapt and share international methods in Hungary

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Contributing to the national implementation of (common) projects focusing on local development and social innovation

– We have been working in the field for 30 years in order to assist local development processes
– Through our nation-wide professional network, needs for professional pilot projects are continuously assessed and reacted to
– We work within professional and regional partnerships
– We participate in designing and implementing international professional projects

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Publishing, translating and adapting literature

– We consider this form of sharing knowledge important as well, so we publish our own periodical called Parola, in which we usually share translations of foreign materials
– Sharing Hungarian examples, experiences and methodologies, we contribute to the publication of international studies