The ENHANCE Matrix - Hungary
IMPACT: 5
Accessible and impactful
Impactful with challenges
BeyondWalls
Neighbourhood Academy
Access: 12
Access: 4
Participatory budget in Schools
This is our theatre
Public opinion
IMPACT: 1
Accessible with low impact
Significant challenges
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
#BeyondWalls action pedagogy project
General considerations
Short summary
The #BeyondWalls project is an action education initiative that aims to get students to carry out sustainability projects outside the school walls, in response to local and global problems, with active community participation. The project involves students choosing, planning and implementing a project based on their own interests, with teachers acting as mentors and facilitators.
What practices encourage openness of learners' voices? Open and honest communication, facilitating and mentoring roles, ensuring learners' active participation and democratic decision-making all promote learners' voices.
What settings are more conducive to learners expressing themselves openly? Learning environments where students can question, debate, collaborate and learn along their own interests are more conducive to open expression.
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This is our theatre
General considerations
Short summary
The objectives of the initiative are to use theatre and its tools to reach out to society, to try out strategies that can bring about change for the benefit of the community, to encourage active participation and to develop personalities. The programme also aims to familiarise participants with the tools of forum theatre to address issues of concern to their communities.
What practices encourage students to open up their voices? Focus groups, questionnaires, improvisation, role-playing and discussions facilitated in the Forum and Legislative Theatre all encourage the open expression of learners' voices. A safe and trusting environment during training exercises is also key.
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Public opinion (PO)
General considerations
Short summary
PO’s mission is to root a progressive public forum in Pécs, Hungary. To discuss in a cultured way social issues and concrete matters of current concern to the city, within the framework of participation, inside and beyond the bubble. PO provides a community experience that encourages free expression rather than repression. Accessible to all, it is a niche and ground-breaking forum for debate that connects city residents and creates a public space.
By the time we started, we were thinking a lot about how we could do something in a format that went beyond a roundtable discussion. We felt that we were tired of these programmes, and so were our audiences. But we need to talk to each other about public issues, because one of the entrances to democracy, to active citizenship, is for people to be informed and to voice their opinions. Those were the ideas that started it, and it was important to be able to be local.
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Participatory budget in Schools
General considerations
Short summary
In the 2021/2022 school year, the students of the Medgyessy Ferenc Secondary School, Secondary School of Arts and Technology in Debrecen were part of a community decision-making process that was unusual in Hungary. The majority of the school's students were involved in some way in deciding what the community should spend 350,000 forints on.
Silencing of student voices can occur if the process is not transparent or if students are not treated as competent parties. Empowering student voice is essential to ensure trust, respect, openness and genuine decision-making. An open, supportive and accepting atmosphere helps students to express themselves. Group and individual processes are important to ensure that everyone's voice is heard.
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Key words
Neighbourhood Academy
General considerations
Short summary
The Neighbourhood Academy is a non-formal self-education programme launched by the Pécs Community Foundation. The aim of the initiative is to provide a platform for civil society organisations, informal groups and active local residents in Pécs to exchange experiences, share common resources and develop themselves.
Practices to encourage openness of learners' voices: collaborative planning, small group work and opportunities for feedback.
The most appropriate environment for students to express their open opinions: community spaces where opinions can be freely shared.
Processes are implemented in both group and individual settings.
+ Read more
Key words
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The ENHANCE Matrix - Hungary
IMPACT: 5
Accessible and impactful
Impactful with challenges
BeyondWalls
Neighbourhood Academy
Access: 12
Access: 4
Participatory budget in Schools
This is our theatre
Public opinion
IMPACT: 1
Accessible with low impact
Significant challenges
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
#BeyondWalls action pedagogy project
General considerations
Short summary
The #BeyondWalls project is an action education initiative that aims to get students to carry out sustainability projects outside the school walls, in response to local and global problems, with active community participation. The project involves students choosing, planning and implementing a project based on their own interests, with teachers acting as mentors and facilitators.
What practices encourage openness of learners' voices? Open and honest communication, facilitating and mentoring roles, ensuring learners' active participation and democratic decision-making all promote learners' voices. What settings are more conducive to learners expressing themselves openly? Learning environments where students can question, debate, collaborate and learn along their own interests are more conducive to open expression.
+ Read more
This is our theatre
General considerations
Short summary
The objectives of the initiative are to use theatre and its tools to reach out to society, to try out strategies that can bring about change for the benefit of the community, to encourage active participation and to develop personalities. The programme also aims to familiarise participants with the tools of forum theatre to address issues of concern to their communities.
What practices encourage students to open up their voices? Focus groups, questionnaires, improvisation, role-playing and discussions facilitated in the Forum and Legislative Theatre all encourage the open expression of learners' voices. A safe and trusting environment during training exercises is also key.
+ Read more
Key words
Public opinion (PO)
General considerations
Short summary
PO’s mission is to root a progressive public forum in Pécs, Hungary. To discuss in a cultured way social issues and concrete matters of current concern to the city, within the framework of participation, inside and beyond the bubble. PO provides a community experience that encourages free expression rather than repression. Accessible to all, it is a niche and ground-breaking forum for debate that connects city residents and creates a public space.
By the time we started, we were thinking a lot about how we could do something in a format that went beyond a roundtable discussion. We felt that we were tired of these programmes, and so were our audiences. But we need to talk to each other about public issues, because one of the entrances to democracy, to active citizenship, is for people to be informed and to voice their opinions. Those were the ideas that started it, and it was important to be able to be local.
+ Read more
Key words
Participatory budget in Schools
General considerations
Short summary
In the 2021/2022 school year, the students of the Medgyessy Ferenc Secondary School, Secondary School of Arts and Technology in Debrecen were part of a community decision-making process that was unusual in Hungary. The majority of the school's students were involved in some way in deciding what the community should spend 350,000 forints on.
Silencing of student voices can occur if the process is not transparent or if students are not treated as competent parties. Empowering student voice is essential to ensure trust, respect, openness and genuine decision-making. An open, supportive and accepting atmosphere helps students to express themselves. Group and individual processes are important to ensure that everyone's voice is heard.
+ Read more
Key words
Neighbourhood Academy
General considerations
Short summary
The Neighbourhood Academy is a non-formal self-education programme launched by the Pécs Community Foundation. The aim of the initiative is to provide a platform for civil society organisations, informal groups and active local residents in Pécs to exchange experiences, share common resources and develop themselves.
Practices to encourage openness of learners' voices: collaborative planning, small group work and opportunities for feedback. The most appropriate environment for students to express their open opinions: community spaces where opinions can be freely shared. Processes are implemented in both group and individual settings.
+ Read more
Key words