Our Key Achievements Include:
We design every project to have a long-term, sustainable impact on society.
Our goals:
Why Act Now?
Based on robust scientific evidence, there is an urgent need to mitigate anthropogenic climate change (IPCC, 2019). However, there is a significant gap between scientific and public understanding of the risks posed by climate change (J. N. Rooney-Varga, 2018). Continuing warnings from the scientific community are not strong enough to generate the individual and governmental actions necessary to meet international climate goal.
What is Act Now?
”Bridging the Gap between Climate Change science and Public Initiatives for Action”- ActNow is a project which focuses on bridging the gap between the scientific community and the public through the development of new educational tools and methods in non-formal and informal contexts that are engaging for young people. The project aims to empower the young people to act as agents of change for environmental and sustainable development using Mobile Augmented Reality Games and Simulations Games.
What we do?
1. Build the capacity of front-line youth workers to use bespoke Mobile Augmented Reality
and Simulations Games.
2. Provide youth workers and youth professionals with the tools and methodology to implement, evaluate and assess key competences of young people through action researchbased.;
3. Make use of the existing AR and Simulation games platforms and provide youth workers with the necessary technical knowledge to create their content for fostering young people key competences through learning about Climate Change;
4. Increase knowledge about Climate Change and its impacts through non-formal and informal methods;
5. Enhance critical thinking and active citizenship among young people to strengthen democracy and combat climate change.
Who are the partners?
ACCION LABORAL PLATAFORMA PARA LA
IMPLANTACION DE PROGRAMAS DE INCLUSION
LABORAL EN COLECTIVOS DESFAVORECIDOS
Spain
CREATIVE THINKING DEVELOPMENT Greece
Institute for Technology Transfer and Innovations Bulgaria
PROGEU-PROGRESS IN EUROPEAN UNION –
ISTITUTO PER LO SVILUPPO Italy
CROMO FOUNDATION Hungary
Project webpage: https://www.actnow-europa.eu/
If you are interested in this project, please, contact Ildiko Simon simon.ildiko@cromo.hu
What we do?
In a number of European countries as well as Eastern Partnership countries, civil society structures are struggling to engage enough participants, activists, members for their missions and actions.
Local grassroots NGOs and informal communities, often exist only till the initiator has enough energy, enthusiasm and motivation and not until their mission is completed.
Informal groups and online communities have a great potential to efficiently represent needs, ideas, decisions of local people and become key potential players in the civil and public sector.
Our project aims to map out, understand these phenomena and targets to initiate bridges between local NGOs, local informal groups and online communities in one particular selected city in each of the partner countries.
Project partners were involved from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Hungary and Portugal.
Project is funded by MitOst and Robert Bosch Foundation.
The project website with downloadable methods – Take Away Toolkit -is available here: https://sites.google.com/view/takeawaytoolkit/home
If you are interested in this project, please, contact Ildiko Simon simon.ildiko@cromo.hu
Why we work?
Social Impact Management Toolkit for small and medium organisations (SMOs) is the result of a short pilot project born from discussions within the Civil Society Cluster of the Bosch Alumni Network/International Alumni Center – and thus received their support as well as MitOst guidance.
This toolkit is designed for organizations that aspire to grow, to play a meaningful role in their context, and to develop an organizational culture for learning and improvement. We reviewed and brought together in a structured way an array of tools that can help SMOs to prepare for, design, and implement social impact management.
It is also a statement we are making with regard to the situation of SMOs. Our message is two-fold: relating to the sustainability of the sector that enables or precludes SMOs to exist and persist and to the importance of donor understanding of local contexts, including donor practices that are tailored to the capacity of SMOs.
Toolkit is available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-HJh6NbA1-TRsMgxAvNwO9QykMC2mfbz
If you are interested in this project, please, contact Ildiko Simon simon.ildiko@cromo.hu
Proposal: Erasmus+ project
Implementation period: 01-11-2021 – 01-11-2023
Project duration: 24 months
Why we work?
Our new project was launched on November 1, 2021, in which we study the impact of COVID19 on local communities with Dutch, Bulgarian and Cypriot partner organizations to collect and systematize community solutions and good practices that helped these communities survive, strengthening the social immune system in these countries.In the project, we will hold focus groups, trainings, workshops in Érd (HU), Amsterdam (NL), Sofia (BG) and Nicosia (CY), publish online toolkit to help local communities prepare for a possible additional social, economic or even environmental challenge.What we do?
The following results are elaborated by the partnership:Why we work?
Between September 2019 and October 2021 we will participate in a wonderful partnership together withother 4 countries – Greece, Cyprus, Italy and Czech Republic.
The goal is to combat against fake news, propaganda, manipulation and hate speech appear on the Internet and inform, train young people how to recognize and take actions in relation to these phenomena.
What we do?
Youth Myth Busters Actions
Upon completing the e-learning moduls, young participants and influencers started to accomplich fake news and hate speech research on the Internet and create short movies and other activities to introduce these news for the ypoung public.
Starting: 2021 FebruaryE-learning Platform
We started our learning activities for young participants:
Starting: 1st of November, 2020
E-learning is available here: https://www.youthmythbusters.eu/
Training for young influencers
We start to train young leaders in the followings:
First training day: 8th of March, 2020
Second training day: 4th of April, 2020
If you are interested in this project, please, contact Ildiko Simon simon.ildiko@cromo.hu
What we do?
We are happy to introduce Digital Democracy Database!
It includes 50 countries and over 1000 e-democracy cases systematically described and classified according to a unified conceptual framework.
The database is open and available for free. You are welcome to use it for your academic research, teaching, policy making, community development, and other non-commercial purposes.
This evolving project is designed to identify and analyse cases of digital democracy aspiring to consolidate global democracy by discovering and sharing good practices of open participatory governance worldwide.
It is intended as a source of data for scholars, policy analysts, civic activists, politicians and other interested parties.
The initial edition is an entirely volunteer collaborative effort of an international team of 40 analysts who collected, coded, and reviewed data for 10 months. The project is kindly hosted by the European Digital Development Alliance.
Lead organization is EDDA.
EDDA is a European association which represents think-tanks, civil society organisations and experts focusing on digital policies and digital transformation. We are working with European Development and International Cooperation policies to share European experience of digital transformation around the globe.
(https://www.europeandigital.org/digital-democracy-database)
If you are interested in this project, please, contact Ildiko Simon simon.ildiko@cromo.hu
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