Results of European integration
About the organisation:
The goal of our association is to disseminate knowledge on the European Union to Hungarian citizens: to show them the effects of EU membership and the opportunities it provides.
Our main tool for that is our blog called “EUrologus” that is published by the most popular Hungarian news site Index.hu. Thanks to our regular presence at its main page and easy-to-understand style, our articles reach an average of approximately 60,000 unique users per week. We also have a Facebook page liked by nearly 7000 users and a Twitter feed with more than 500 followers.
Members of our association are mostly journalists with education and experience in EU affairs. Currently, we are also engaged in a mentoring programme in partnership with a youth association. We are training young people to be bloggers who write about EU affairs.
More information: eurologus.eu
Timetable of the planned civil society project:
Mar 2017: application for funding
Aug-Oct 2017: writing preliminary study
Nov 2017 – Feb 2018: publishing articles based on the studies with interactive elements such as questioning readers and online debate forums
Mar-May 2018: translating the articles for the languages of other participants (directly or first translating them to English and then to the other languages) and publishing them
Jun-Sep 2018: conference in each participating country with invited experts and decision-makers, MEPs
Sep-Dec 2018: wrapping up the project by publishing a synthesis and sending it to EU decision-makers
Short description of the project, including its aims:
With Euroscepticism on the rise in the EU and especially in its Eastern member states, we would like to take stock of the results and failures of European integration. For example did opening the markets provide more export opportunities and capital inflows or is it allowing Western products and firms to overwhelm Eastern member states? Is the free flow of workers a “security valve” against high unemployment and provides remittances sent back by citizens from Eastern MSs or is it merely a tool for “brain drain” to make the most talented and educated people leave their homeland?
More information about the project can be found in the attached document.
We are also open to join another project idea as partners. Our media reach and experience with writing articles about the EU could be a welcome addition to projects seeking to increase dissemination as well as impact and citizen involvement (these add up to 35% of the award criteria for projects).
| INSTITUTION | Nyitott Európáért Egyesület |
| TYPE OF INSTITUTION | Non-profit association |
| CONTACT NAME | Balázs Márton |
| CONTACT E-MAIL | bmarton87@gmail.com |
| COUNTRY | Hungary |
| NAME OF THE PROGRAMME | Europe for Citizens / Civil society projects |
| PROJECT TOPIC | Results of European integration |
| WORKING LANGUAGE | EN |
| EXPIRATION DATE | 28.02.2017. |
| DOCUMENT | Download |
