How does Partners Hungary Foundation think about donations? In socially vulnerable communities, most of our projects aim to improve Roma access to quality education and health care, encouraging self-organisation of local communities. However, the epidemic situation has increased the communities' need for items such as smart devices, cleaning products, food... We have been thinking about how we can, at an organisational level, provide any form of [...]

Rosa Parks Foundation, Motiváció Műhely, Partners Hungary, April 2020 Teachers of predominantly disadvantaged children say a third of their pupils have failed to engage with digital education, according to a recent survey. The results suggest that the gap between children's social status in schools is set to widen. There are big regional differences: while in Budapest [...]

Even before the outbreak of the coronavirus, the Dandelion Day Nursery School in District 18 organised a Step by Step methodological day. This day was an opportunity to show kindergarten teachers how the elements of the Step by Step method work in primary schools. At Csontváry Kosztka Tivadar Primary School, teachers have been teaching using elements of the Step by Step method for many years. The visit to the institution, the [...]

The traditional national professional conference of the Hungarian Association of Family and Child Welfare Services (MACSGYOE) took place in October 2019 in Siófok. This year, the conference focused on child welfare services, with a special section on the present and future of the contact centre. Dr. Liliána Urbán, lawyer and mediator, and Gabriella Gergely, social worker, [...]

Community based complex school program for effective prevention and treatment of aggression and bullying ASAP - Against School Aggression Partnership is a project implemented from September 2015 until August 2018, funded by the Erasmus Programme of the European Union. The programme was led by Partners Hungary Foundation, in collaboration with SOS Malta, Partners Bulgaria Foundation and [...]

Conflict. Extremism Violence. We hear these words often these days when we talk about social issues and fundamental values. We think there is another approach. We have to believe that people with different values can talk to each other, can cooperate. How? We don't have to agree on everything. Sometimes it is enough to disagree in a civilised way to live together peacefully [...]

 "Come on, Teacher, I was just kidding." Or was I? How can I recognise types of aggression and bullying in school? How can a complex anti-bullying programme be integrated into the busy school day? On 5 June 2018, we held the final conference of our Partnership against School Bullying programme, funded by the European Union's Erasmus+ programme. The programme will run until 31 August, which will be fully [...]

The National Mediation Association's May 2018 conference was about the state and practices of mediation in schools. Representatives of Partners Hungary were present not only as participants, but also as invited guests, as we have been working with mediation in various educational institutions, with school professionals and students since 2009. A summary of the presentations given in the morning of the conference. Experiences of school mediation in Italy Carmela Cavallo, member of GEMME (Groupement Européen [...]

The latest volume of Apple on the Tree, which addresses the challenges of professional development for teachers in the 21st century, has been published. An interview with Mari Zágon, professional manager of the Step by Step programme, starts on page 72. "Teachers who are more open, more flexible, who reflect on their own professional role or practice, are moving towards modernity." How do the changes of the 21st century affect [...]

Discipline problems, peer abuse, ostracism. Child aggression and peer abuse present themselves in different ways in different institutions and are an increasing challenge for teachers, students, parents and professionals working in the school environment. Almost all schools are now affected in some way. Without appropriate tools, tensions are rising and helplessness can turn into aggression. Those affected [...]

Our professional recommendation, presented on 31 March 2017, developed in the framework of intersectoral cooperation, is available at our office every weekday between 9-17: 1072 Budapest, Rákóczi út 22, 4/24.    

There are mediators who also recommend mediation with confidence in cases of domestic violence. However, mediation is not recommended in civil cases of domestic violence. The Patent Association's article contains several arguments to show why. The PATENT Association's full professional recommendation can be found HERE: leporello-mediacio-2014 It is also important to point out that mandatory mediation means that clients are obliged to [...]

Our November 2017 mediation conference was organised around the theme of divorce mediation, to which we invited international mediators to share their experiences. Christian Bos, founder, head of IEDRS, mediator Christian Bos spoke about his mediation experience in Luxembourg, France and Belgium.

General mediation literature Tibor Kertész: Mediation in Practice - available at the Partners Hungary Foundation office! Barcy, M., Szamos, E. (2002) "Mediare necesse est" The social application of mediation. Animula, Budapest. Lovas Zsuzsa - Herczog Mária (1999) Mediation, or the painless conflict resolution Múzsák Kiadó Eörsi Mátyás - Ábrahám Zita. Minerva, n.d. Edited by Dr. M. Eörsi, Dr. Z. Ábrahám, Litigating [...]

Report from the Partners Hungary Foundation Mediation Centre Conference on 27 October 2015 On 27 October 2015, we held our third mediation conference this year, focusing on minors and children. This time, we wanted to find out what the profession thinks about the involvement of children in mediation and what experiences mediators have had in mediating with minors. The event, compared to previous ones, set a record [...]

Every year, the International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP) organises its conference. This year the renowned institute has chosen Budapest as the venue for its European conference. Partners Hungary Foundation also participated in the second day of the conference. Plenary presentations The Thursday day was opened by John Bailey, President of IIRP, who spoke to hundreds of [...]

In 2006, the American Arbitration Association published a study on companies that consciously manage their conflicts using a so-called portfolio approach. This means that, in these companies, conflicts are viewed from a broader perspective, with each dispute being [...]

Partners Hungary Foundation's March 2015 mediation conference was about effective cooperation between heterogeneous groups. Tibor Kertész, former trainer and mediator of Partners Hungary, was our guest at the mediation workshop on 17 April 2015. He is an external mediator and former trainer of the Partners Hungary Foundation, mentor of mediators at the Office of Justice and for several years now also a lecturer at the University of Miskolc. Tibor [...]

Professional methodological knowledge is of little value without the training of a professional personality. We can only become good professionals with the help of others, by giving and receiving feedback. Nowadays, burnout and loss of motivation is one of the most recurrent risk factors. This case-study offers a novel solution to this problem, with an easy-to-apply, transferable method. Using the WANDA method, positive psychology [...]