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The language we use when we talk about refugees and migration is so often tragic. Newspapers publish heartbreaking pictures, we read statistics which boggle the mind in their numbers, learn stories which appall in their tales of suffering. At the same time running through the difficult realities are...

The workshop was open to civil society organizations and social enterprises, as well as the organizations that support them, and its focus was on non-profit impact measurement. Participants in the program included the Nem Adom Fel Foundation ('Never Give Up') and the Hungary Green Building Council...

Who does the new board of the Szimbiózis Foundation consist of, how is it structured? The members of the Szimbiózis Foundation's board are Tamás Pók, Attila Seres and György Fischer. We regard the members of the board as "guardian angels". Our plan was to have a team that will help us develop our...

We are very happy and delighted to announce that Monika Tóthné Almássy has been elected as a new Hungarian Ashoka fellow! Monika worked as a hospital teacher at a pediatric oncology ward for 15 years. She saw that although the medicals did everything they could for the children in long-term hospital...

Our program, Green Lab powered by Telekom Kraft began in April, with the participation of the 6 selected groups. In the development period of the program from April to September, the participating young professionals worked on solutions addressing one of the environmental challenges (Waste-free...

During the research program between Corvinus University Science Shop and Ashoka Hungary, participating scientists are carrying out data analysis during the summer. They interviewed social enterprises during the spring and at the beginning of the summer. In August they are testing their developed...

Work on social enterprises will continue in the summer with the participation of Corvinus University Science Shop researchers. The research explores the management characteristics of social enterprises, as well as their specialties resulting from the duality of social and economic goals. During the...

We are in the middle of the development phase of the Green Lab powered by Telekom Kraft program! With the help of the Service Design methodology, the main focus of the participants is to understand the environmental challenges on a deeper level, striving to find possible solutions to the issues and...

We kicked off the Green Lab powered by Telekom Kraft program with the selected 6 teams at the beginning of April. The teams are about to go through a development phase of 13 workshops from April to September during which they continue to work on solving one of the 4 environmental challenges chosen...

The scholar work on social enterprises has started with the participation of the researchers of the Corvinus University Science Shop (Máté Farkas-Kis, Sára Forgács-Fábián, Noémi Krátki, Réka Matolay, Ákos Nagy, Éva Révész, Andrea Toarniczky). The research covers two main topics selected on the basis...

The application period for the program Green Lab powered by Telekom Kraft is now closed, we are ready to join forces and get working with the young professionals! The background of the participants is very diverse, amongst others, economists, designers, food engineers, landscape architects, as well...

After a long preparation, our two joint research with the Corvinus team will begin shortly. It’s decided: two research topics to promote local social entrepreneurship (SE) are selected for 2022.

Supporting civil and other mission-driven organizations in establishing an effective board.  

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.

One of the goals of the ASHOKA Hungary Ecosystem program is to give space to Hungarian actors to get to know each other, think together and establish long-term collaborations within the Hungarian agro-ecosystem. The focus of the project was on social enterprise organizations working in the field of...

The "One Week in Heaven" ("Egy hét mennyország") program of the Symbiosis Foundation, founded by László Jakubinyi Ashoka Fellow, impressed the professional jury, so in 2021 they were voted the first prize of the Innovative Social Service Organization Award.

The Green Lab Program is Ashoka Hungary's program for solving specific environmental challenges, where teams work with corporate partners (Telekom, MasterCard, TMF Group) to develop ideas for specific challenges all the way to the business plan.

The constant change and rapid transformation that characterizes both our immediate environment and our world is no longer a novelty today. We all have experience, we all feel it one way or another, we can hear and read a lot about it, but in most cases not about the positive changes, but rather...

Nóra L. Ritók, Hungarian Ashoka Fellow (Real Pearl Foundation) reports on the story of the Louis Vuitton Award