Facts about Hungary

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Facts about Hungary

• Population 10 million (senior citizens 2.1
  million 21)
• 19 counties, 7 region
• 93 030 km2 (1 of Europe)
• Member of EU
• from 2004

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World Heritage
Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the
Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue
Old Village of Hollóko and its Surroundings
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Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst
Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma and
its Natural Environment
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Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta
Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs (Sopianae)
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Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape
Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape
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List of Hungaricum

• Food
• Gulash, stuffed cabbage,
• stew (beef, pork, chicken),
• Jókai bean soup, Újházy
• chicken noodle soup,
• Hortobágyi crepes
• Hungarian products
• Gyulai sausage, Pick
• Salami
• Drinks
• Tokaji wines, Zwack
• Unicum, Hungarian wines
• Furmint, Hárslevelu, Olaszrizling etc.
• National Products
• Paprika from Kalocsa and Szeged,
• Onion from Makó, Soda water

• Folk art
• Traditional clothing (differs according
• to regions), Matyó and Kalocsai
• embrodiery, Halasi lacing
• Traditions
• Busójárás, Kecskejárás, Bethlemes
• Animal breeding
• Muraközi horse, Hungarian grey
• cattle, Bufallo, Racka sheep,
• Mangalica swine, Hempseed
• chicken, komondor, Hungarian vizsla
• and Puli dog

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Facts about Budapest

• Capital of Hungary
• 23 districts
• Approx. 2 million (1.7) inhabitants
• Economic, cultural and educational centre of the
  country
• City of water and spas

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Budapest - festival city

• Budapest Spring Festival
• Budapest Autumn Festival
• Budapest Summer Festival
• Sziget (Island) Festival

• Special festivals
• Book Festival
• E-festival
• International Circus festival ...

• Festivals of districts
• Erzsébet Days
• FENYÁR
• Terézvárosi Days

• Amateur and folk arts festivals
• Festival of Folk Arts (August)
• Drum festival
• Folk Dance Anthology ...

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Sziget Festival
Celebration of Bridge 2004
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Budapest city of universities and knowledge
centre

• Higher education
• number of institutions 47
• students 166 000

• Research and Development
• number 1 041
• employees 25 000

Academic institutions number 22

• Issuing books
• number of books 9 498
• number of copies 33,6 million

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Art institutions
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Cultural Community Centres

• Role / function and mission of cultural
• community centres
• basic cultural provision
• to reduce the inequality (availability and
  access to culture)
• to improve the quality of life / standard of
  living
• to support the local communities, civil
  organisations
• adult education

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Budapest Cultural Centre
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Budapest Cultural Centre

• BCC is the professional service institution of
• community cultural centres and NGOs in
• the capital, supported by the Budapest
  Municipality.
• Our aims are
• initiating new programmes in the sector
• facilitating the dissemination of new programmes
  and methods
• delivering services to professionals as well as
  to local residents in the field of information,
  education, methodology and art

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The BCCs main partners
General Assembly of Budapest
Budapest Cultural Centre (BCC) Professional
service provider in the region
Cultural Community Centres
Local Governments
Non Governmental Organisations
Local residents
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Professional work and services
Information Collecting, processing and
publishing information in the field of cultural
activities
Education (Adult education) Developing and
organising training / courses international work,
Methodology Issuing Methodology and information
publications, organising forums
Art Art work organising education and events
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Information services

• Homepage of the BCC - www.bmknet.hu
• publishes information and programmes for
  professionals as well as for the public
• offering programmes and training / courses /
  special cultural services / databases
• ensuring access to cultural and other information
  concerning minorities living in the country
• Barrier - Green pages www.kirandul.hu
• BARRIER Green - description of 70 green areas of
  17 settlements
• BARRIER Trip - half-day, one-day or several day
  long trips
• BARRIER Excursion - organized trips and
  excursions
• BARRIER Plus programmes of museums and cultural
  centres.
• BARRIER Playground
• Kaleidoskop - www.kaleidoskop.hu
• Online magazin - an overview about cultural
  offers (museums, concert, civil societies,
  interviews, programmes for children)
• Cultural Directory of Budapest -
  www.szaknevsor.hu
• providing information for program organisers
• database of artists and different groups

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Adult education

• Initiating new programmes (e.g. training for
  older learners, adult education consultation,
  information service)
• Developing curriculum of courses and training
  programmes
• Organising courses for professionals as well as
  for local residents in different themes for
  several age groups
• Counselling activities (giving educational
  information)

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Palló - main activities

• Training for adult educational consultants
• designing, updating and operating an information
  system
• information service for the public
• setting up a help-desk service to support the
  network of consultants
• training for supporting the engangement with
  learning, set up learning communities (club)

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International work

• Grundtvig projects
• Stimulation of EU projects (2001 2004)
• RoLBOP - Removing barriers to learning for older
  people (2002 2004)
• Quality Management in adult education (2005
  2006)
• WWW-Golden-Age (2005 2007)
• International training programme built on the
  RoLBOP project (2005)
• Youth Program 2000 2006
• Outdoor and understanding (2003)
• InfoEurope (August 2003)
• Other international activities
• Hot Spot (1998-1999)
• Contact making seminar (2003) - projectmanagement

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Stimulation of EU projects

• Countries involved in the co-operation
• Germany, Austria, Romania, Slovenia, Hungary,
• Spain
• 1st year - informing cultural centres about the
  international project possibilities combining
  with a language course project management
  training
• 2nd and 3rd year - facilitating the involvement
  of cultural centres in international project,
  initiating new projects

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RoLBOP Removing barriers to learning for older
people

• countries involved in the project Ireland,
  England, Austria, Hungary
• sharing practice in learning for older people
• identifying barriers to learning
• collecting best practice examples in the
  participating countries
• designing a training program for trainers
• publishing the results in two booklets
• organizing courses for adult educators

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Quality management in adult education

• countries involved in the project Italy,
  Germany, Austria, Hungary
• Drawing up a benchmarking system
• Comparing processes and activities and documents
• Introducing best practice examples

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Outdoor and understanding

• Countries involved in the co-operation Austria,
  Italy, Denmark, Iceland, Hungary
• Identifying the needs in terms of the method in
  the countries
• Learning more about the adventure pedagogy and
  putting the method into practice
• Initiating a common large scale program in order
  to disseminate the method
• Finding new possibilities for use (family
  program, disadvantaged or disabled people)

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Special target group at adult education
centres (senior citizens)
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RoLBOP project (Removing barriers to learning
for older people)

• Coordinator
• Community Education Development Centre
• (CEDC) - England
• Partner organisations
• European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and
• Research Austria
• Curriculum Development Centre Ireland
• Budapest Cultural Centre (BCC) - Hungary

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Key elements of the project

• Identifying learning barriers and agreeing on
  what we
• consider to be a good practice
• Collecting examples of practices
• Running a short training programme for trainers
• Issuing a publication summarising the
• conclusions of the project

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Learning barriers

• Dispositional barriers (that is attitudinal or
  psychological)
• Institutional (that is barriers within the system
  itself)
• Situational (that is practical consideration)
• Contextual (that is social and political barriers)

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Learning barriers - examples

• Dispositional barriers
• Lack of motivation, negative experiences
• Lack of confidence
• Fear of exams, fear of failure
• Predisposition to learning
• Age, ethnicity, gender and physical ability

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Learning barriers - examples

• Institutional barriers
• Philosophy of the institution
• Information institutional failure to communicate
  information about learning opportunities
  (type of advise and guidance, language used
  for learning)
• Logistics course fee, timing, transport,
  accessibility

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Learning barriers - examples

• Situational barriers
• Location, disabilities, time, income
• Family roles and expectations
• Failure to recognise different learning styles
• Attitudes of teachers toward older people

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Learning barriers - examples

• Contextual barriers
• Social class
• Racism
• Sexism
• Attitudes within society to disability and age

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Criteria of best practices

• Consultation with older learners prior to the
  learning
• opportunity being set up
• Older people are involved in shaping the learning
• opportunity
• Learning opportunity is made as accessible as
• possible (venue, cost etc.)
• Those running the learning opportunity are
  sensitive
• to the needs of learners

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Criteria of best practices

• Teaching methods are inclusive and encourage
• everyone to take part
• The work is evaluated so that providers can learn
• from their mistakes
• The learning opportunity is shaped by learners
  needs
• and not by assumptions based on their age or
  other
• characteristics
• There are progression routes

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Criteria of best practices

• The work is new to the country
• The work targets disadvantaged groups within the
• community of older people

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Contact details

• Budapest Cultural Centre
• Zsuzsanna Brenner
• Address Etele út 55.
• Budapest 1119
• Hungary
• Tel. [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• e-mail international_at_bmknet.hu
• web www.bmknet.hu