Projects
The ADVANCE Transcarpathian Advocacy and Development Center has carried out a number of projects in the last 2 decades. They are listed in thematic breakdown below:
Support to civil organisations and innitiatives
Support to local civil innitiatives (2007-2009) Objective: to support social innitiatives that address social problems of Berehove and Berehove district, as well as the development of Bereg region, involving local communities, in cooperation with the local population, NGOs and actors from the business sector.
Cross-border cooperation of civil society organizations in the context of the EU Neighborhood Policy (2008) Representatives of ACCORD members (20 organizations) who took part in the almost one-year program were able to learn about the EU’s neighborhood policy through training courses and conferences. As part of the program, representatives of the network’s member organizations made a study trip to Hungary, during which they visited the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary, local governments and social institutions of non-governmental organizations.
Role and participation of Ukrainian civil society organisations in the monitoring of the European Neighbourhood Policy (2009) Participants of the conference involving 42 Ukrainian NGOs and international experts discussed opportunities for cooperation between the European Union and Ukraine in the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy.
EU Entrepreneurship Training and Knowledge Transfer for Transcarpathian Entrepreneurs (2009) The 44 start-ups and small entrepreneurs participating in the training got acquainted with business opportunities in the European Union, bilateral Hungarian-Ukrainian cooperation, topics of business enterprise, company formation, company operation, patent protection, tender writing and tender monitoring.
Foreign policy public thinking, and foreign policy advocacy of non-governmental organizations (2010) The aim of the training series in Lemberg, Ivano-Frankivsk and Berehove was to acquaint representatives of Ukrainian organizations with the principles, standards and concepts of humanitarian work and the functioning of European humanitarian organizations.
Promoting humanitarian methodological education in Western Ukraine (2013-2014) Objective: to prepare Western Ukrainian NGOs for potential disasters and the response to these based on Hungarian experiences and best practices.
Support to local civil innitiatives (2007-2009) Objective: to support social innitiatives that address social problems of Berehove and Berehove district, as well as the development of Bereg region, involving local communities, in cooperation with the local population, NGOs and actors from the business sector.
Cross-border cooperation of civil society organizations in the context of the EU Neighborhood Policy (2008) Representatives of ACCORD members (20 organizations) who took part in the almost one-year program were able to learn about the EU’s neighborhood policy through training courses and conferences. As a part of the program, the representatives of the network’s member organizations made a study trip to Hungary, during which they visited the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary, local governments and social institutions of non-governmental organizations.
Role and participation of Ukrainian civil society organisations in the monitoring of the European Neighbourhood Policy (2009) Participants of the conference involving 42 Ukrainian NGOs and international experts discussed opportunities for cooperation between the European Union and Ukraine in the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy.