Policy area: health

Short description: the aim of the project is to help families with children suffering from hearing problems – to support integration of such children into the “normal” community.

Qualitative evidence: Mobile trainers are improving the health conditions of children with hearing difficulties and the well-being of the whole family because they teach how to communicate better with their children and this has a direct impact to improve the family communication.

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Policy area: education

Short description: the school promotes financial education to change the habits regarding home management. In order to do so, the programme involves parents as important adults in children's lives.

Qualitative evidence: School of Financial Family has achieved that families can plan personal and family finances better, reflect on and look for ways to increase their income, as well as how to save on costs by thorough planning and accounting. At the same time, they gain an overview on other important issues affecting families such as loans and consumer right; they have reached to 3,615 participants.

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Policy area: employment

Short description: SBSC is a shopping community focused on reviving local food traditions, and supporting rural, local or regional employment. They insist on direct contact between the producer and buyer.

Quantitative evidence: Small Basket Shopping community has reinforced the security of the farmers’ jobs due to success of demand. “In 2014 the Association had only 30 customers, in 2015 this rose to 320 and in March 2016 the number was 500. Especially the introduction of a webshop increased the number of members”.

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Policy area: civic engagement

Short description: is a non-profit civic association aimed on addressing the problem of corruption on the part of the state in Slovakia.

Quantitative evidence: 11 specific corruption cases based on complaints from citizens were resolved within the activities of the association.

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Policy area: housing

Short description: Social housing for people dependent on social assistance.

Quantitative evidence: Small project of architecture students’ work with Roma families for building their own houses. Result is that 8 Roma families built the own house together with the collaboration with students and other stakeholders

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Policy area: employment

Short description: The city of Banská Bystrica implemented a project to reduce the number of long-term unemployed citizens.

Quantitative evidence: 40 temporary jobs were created in six local businesses. By means of this temporary subsidized employment, a group of unemployed gained real work experience, new job skills, and strengthened their self-esteem, confidence and social ties.

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Policy area: housing

Short description: Advocacy organization promoting real participation of affected by homelessness.

Although this initiative does not provide evidences of how people is ensuring housing, it is promoting more social awareness of this problem and network created on this issue is helping to people in risk to be advised by lawyers volunteers, to find jobs for maintaining their houses, among others.

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Policy area: Civic engagement 

Short description: Migszol is an informal, unregistered political grass roots organization. They critically monitor asylum-related policies in Hungary. 

Quantitative evidence: With the majority of refugees and migrants originating from the Middle East and South Central Asia choosing the Balkan route, the first Member State of the European Union (EU) to reach was Hungary. In 2015, this country registered 177,135 asylum seekers in 2015, with another estimated (unregistered) 60,000-70,000 passing through its territory towards the west. For those who crossed into Hungary from Serbia before the border closed in September 2015, the first place that refugees reached was the county of Csongrád and its administrative centre, Szeged. Measures to help the arrivals were largely coordinated by a non-governmental and non-registered organization called MigSzol Szeged.

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Policy area: education

Short description: is an organization which provides professional help for so-called ‘tanodas’, a term that in Hungarian is associated with the words ‘study’, ‘take care of’ and ‘kindergarten’ and in practice is an extra- curricular afternoon school addressed mainly to Roma children.

Qualitative evidence: Study Halls allow to Roma Children being in a safer and positive environment to reinforce their study and motivation to learn and being success on the school subjects.

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Policy area: Housing

Short description: is an example of housing support from a range of social actors that can be found all over Germany. The shelter for homeless women offers refuge for women over 18 who have, against their will, become homeless.

Quantitative evidence: Housing assistance to homeless – The initiative has facilitated shelters for 700 women and children (1994-2009) that allowed having a safer place to live while women found other resources for living.

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