The purpose of the Discussions and Actions on Climate and Environment (DACE) project, co-financed by the European Union, is to shape public attitudes and to enforce mitigation of the climate crises and enhance related rights in court. Within the framework of the DACE project, we conducted a survey among the Hungarian population on their attitudes…
During the last week of May 2023, GreenFromation participated in the C4E Forum in Slovakia with app. 150 participants. The aim of this bi-annual community-building event is to build and strengthen Central and Eastern Europe’s energy efficiency community. Due to the current multiple crises, this year’s conference was centred around three main topics: energy security,…
The aim of the LIFE Endemic Panalp project is to improve the conservation status of six – mostly- endemic plant species and five species of insects as well as the condition of their habitats in Hungary and in Slovakia. Although all of the project sites are grassland habitats, they are facing different threats, including for…
EcoystemEvaluation co-funder, Agnes Zolyomi contributed as a contributing-author to the recently published full report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Values Assessment .
EcosystemEvaluation co-funder, Veronika Kiss joined the signatories of CEE civil society stressing the need for a European transition towards independent, clean, peaceful, and affordable energy. Numerous organizations and individuals called on the Czech Presidency to work on progressive climate and energy policy that includes investments into reducing energy consumption, improving energy efficiency, and implementation of…
Ashoka, in collaboration with the science shop and researchers at Corvinus University of Budapest, launched a 12-month research project in January 2022 to address relevant issues affecting social enterprises. Veronika Kiss, Co-Founder of EcosystemEvaluation is coordinating the work. As a first step, colleagues from Corvinus University explored the lack of research data based on the…
Alt-Shift – a Degrowth Festival at August 27th – September 3rd (Arrival August 26th).
For more than a decade, Habitat for Humanity International – Europe and the Middle East (HFHI/EME) has been addressing the issue of energy poverty and energy efficiency in the residential sector in the region of Central and Eastern Europe and Western Balkans. HFHI/EME activities under the Residential Energy Efficiency for Low-Income Households (REELIH) project funded…
Within Teachers as change agents – continued project, HAND Association, with the active participation of students and lecturers from two famous Hungarian universities (ELTE, PTE), examined how and to what extent the aspects and contents of global education appear and prevail in teacher training. During the project, participatory system mapping methodology was applied through which…
Experts from EcosystemEvaluation assessed national Operative Programmes (OPs) under the next Multiannual Financial Framework of the European Union, which defines the main directions of European spending between 2021 and 2027. We evaluated the OPs from energy efficiency and renewable energy sources perspectives, considering also how these programmes contribute to just and sustainable energy transition. The work…