TÁMOP Infocoalition
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Several thousand new “open houses, where information meets you”
The Hungarian Telecottage Association and HAYICO - Magyarországi Ifjúsági Információs és Tanácsadó Irodák Szövetsége [HAYICO – Hungarian Association of Youth Information and Consulting Offices] have been working on a joint project for TÁMOP [Social Renewal Operational Programme or SROP] funding, dubbed “Infocoalition,” since the beginning of 2009.
Today, when the otherwise odd expression “Integrated Community Service Space” [in Hungarian, Integrált Közösségi Szolgáltató Tér, or IKSZT] rings oddly familiar across nearly every municipality of less than 5000 residents in the country, there may actually be many with an interest in just what the Infocoalition project comprises and what it has to do with IKSZTs and telecentres. In providing the answer, however, it is first necessary to define an IKSZT. In an address given at the latest HTA conference, held in Csillebérc in May of 2009, Márton Beke, professional director of project participant HROD, defined an IKSZT as an open house where information steps up to meet you. Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development announced a 30-billion-forint grant program, in which individual small municipalities could apply for 50-million-forint grants for the creation of (investment into) and operation of service centres of this type. An IKSZT is a complex, small municipal service point that simultaneously offers a number of old and new services, including libraries, community culture and education centres, telecentres, youth development services, information services, tutoring, employment information, etc. While many municipalities have had centres of this type for some time, often due to a scarcity of resources, several hundred other locations will now have the opportunity of developing them.
With its 360 telecentres, the Hungarian Telecottage Association, one of the largest civil networks of community access points in the country, is both one of the founders of and – via its telecentre network – a service provider for this initiative. The joint HAYICO-HTA Infocoalition project began with a research project that sought to map out community access points that had been founded previously (often simultaneously), then in many cases left to their own devices: employment information points, youth information points, youth offices, telecentres, e-Hungary points, KIHOPs, and cultural and educational institutions. Project planners consider it particularly important that operation of the institutions created by the project be aided and co-ordinated by something they call a Methodology Centre. The organisation that announced the grant procedure, along with its agency, the Rural Development, Education, and Professional Consultancy Institution [in Hungarian, Vidékfejlesztési, Képzési- és Szaktanácsadási Intézete or VKSZI] of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, itself plans to create just such a centre.
In order to do so, however, it is necessary that the service providers whose services will eventually be conducted by the IKSZTs all participate in the creation of the professional and methodology materials, training courses, and other support systems. It is quite likely after all, that a telecentre that has been in operation for a number of years already knows how to operate one successfully – as well as how not to operate one. The same may be said of a youth office or employment information point. The Hungarian Telecottage Association and HAYICO - Magyarországi Ifjúsági Információs és Tanácsadó Irodák Szövetsége [HAYICO – Hungarian Association of Youth Information and Consulting Offices] have been working on a joint project for TÁMOP [Social Renewal Operational Programme or SROP] funding, dubbed “Infocoalition,” since the beginning of 2009.
Today, when the otherwise odd expression “Integrated Community Service Space” [in Hungarian, Integrált Közösségi Szolgáltató Tér, or IKSZT] rings oddly familiar across nearly every municipality of less than 5000 residents in the country, there may actually be many with an interest in just what the Infocoalition project comprises and what it has to do with IKSZTs and telecentres. In providing the answer, however, it is first necessary to define an IKSZT. In an address given at the latest HTA conference, held in Csillebérc in May of 2009, Márton Beke, professional director of project participant HROD, defined an IKSZT as an open house where information steps up to meet you. Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development announced a 30-billion-forint grant program, in which individual small municipalities could apply for 50-million-forint grants for the creation of (investment into) and operation of service centres of this type. An IKSZT is a complex, small municipal service point that simultaneously offers a number of old and new services, including libraries, community culture and education centres, telecentres, youth development services, information services, tutoring, employment information, etc. While many municipalities have had centres of this type for some time, often due to a scarcity of resources, several hundred other locations will now have the opportunity of developing them.
With its 360 telecentres, the Hungarian Telecottage Association, one of the largest civil networks of community access points in the country, is both one of the founders of and – via its telecentre network – a service provider for this initiative. The joint HAYICO-HTA Infocoalition project began with a research project that sought to map out community access points that had been founded previously (often simultaneously), then in many cases left to their own devices: employment information points, youth information points, youth offices, telecentres, e-Hungary points, KIHOPs, and cultural and educational institutions. Project planners consider it particularly important that operation of the institutions created by the project be aided and co-ordinated by something they call a Methodology Centre. The organisation that announced the grant procedure, along with its agency, the Rural Development, Education, and Professional Consultancy Institution [in Hungarian, Vidékfejlesztési, Képzési- és Szaktanácsadási Intézete or VKSZI] of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, itself plans to create just such a centre.
In order to do so, however, it is necessary that the service providers whose services will eventually be conducted by the IKSZTs all participate in the creation of the professional and methodology materials, training courses, and other support systems. It is quite likely after all, that a telecentrethat has been in operation for a number of years already knows how to operate one successfully – as well as how not to operate one. The same may be said of a youth office or employment information point.
The Infocoalition project is financed by the European Union, with the co-financing of the European Social Fund.
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Tananyagok:
Kutatási anyagok:
- Infokoalíció cél és érdekeltségi térkép, kutatási jelentés
- Infokoalíció kutatatás összegzés
- Infokoalíció képviseleti helyek
- Szakmai stratégiai terv
- Szolgáltatási minimumok, protokollok
- Teleház szervezetfejlesztési terv
Műhelyek anyagai:
- Negyedik műhely
- Harmadik műhely MMIK bemutatás
- Második műhely NIIDA infokoalíció
- Második műhely Mobilitás, mint képzőintézmény
- Második műhely Infokoalíció jegyzőkönyv
- Első műhely Infokoalíció rövid bemutatás
- Első műhely Infokoalíció jegyzőkönyv
- Első műhely IKSZT módszerközpont prezentáció
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