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1300 Budapest, Pf. 252

2100 Gödöll

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Tel.:

06-28-514-121

Fax:

06-28-514-120

Copy of the register number: 7533 Bank account: 11703006-20068688

The Foundation

The Kontakt Foundation was established by Prof. Pál Völgyesi. It was registered as public association on 4th July 1999.

History of the foundation

Director (Professor Pál Völgyesi) of Szent István University’s training school in Gödöllő established Kontakt Foundation on

4th January 1999 with the aim to create a consultative and retraining forum for the experts of working advisors.

The registry court registered the Kontakt Foundation in June 1999 and same time declared as public association.

„The assistance of the small partnerships and individuals can be organised along such humanistic motives that deem jointly

knowledge, self-realization and collective work and life as value.” (Preambulum)

•education and training, ability development, information •promotion of coequality chance of underprivileged social groups

•promotion of training and employment of handicapped persons in the labour market and the related services.

The foundation is a public association.

Activities

2 two main categories:

•We provide forum for experts working in social fields (mainly employment counsellors), possibility of postgraduate studies, conferences, trainings, organisation of meetings, publications, web-sites.

• We submit and win tenders for developing programs that are carried out in Gödöllő and in the neighbourhood.

Finance:

Our foundation maintains itself mainly from tender finances, 1% contribution from taxes and fees and close-support from

time to time Tender capital resources:

•National Employment Public Foundation •Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour

•Ministry of Sport and Youth •Prime Minister Office

•Institute for National Training •European Social Found

Our co-operators:

•Psychology and Career Planning Lectureship of the Szent István University

•Labour Office

•Self-governments of the settlements (towns) (Gödöllő, Tura,

Dány, Valkó, Zsámbok, Pécel) •Social Welfare Institutions

•Educational Guidance Institutions •Primary and secondary schools •Petőfi Sándor Culture Center

•Clerical Institutes

•Employers (Contractors, Big Enterprises) •Civil Organizations (in Hungary and abroad)

Our Experts:

• Employment counsellors • Social workers

• Social pedagogues • Psychologists

• Experts of the labour market • Teachers • Economic experts • Scientific co-workers • Computer engineer • Culture organizers

Our programs:

Advisors club:

Series of the show operates monthly from September 1999. • Professional forum gives possibility for personal exchange of

views (experts are coming from all parts of the country), participation in exploration, development and training

• Several topics are consulted in a one-day training: training consists of a longer presentation and workshop.

• lecturers are university professors and operative experts who are all counsellors working in human services. We introduce new methods in the workshop that are presented by members of co-sciences, for example, graphology, socio-drama,

Website:

• The Foundation established www.palyanet.hu website in

January 2001 that would like to help young people to find their career and questions relating to employment.

Content of the page: • A game

• A guide – contains lessons for self-knowledge • we help – where they can get answers

and collection of addresses and links • circular

Our trainings:

The Kontakt Foundation is an accredited Adult Training Institution (register number: 01-0169-07)

Main directions:

• Professional training

(e.g. career orientation consultancy)

• Training for the underprivileged social groups (e.g. helping them finish primary studies)

• Complementary trainings for unemployed (e.g. techniques how to find a job)

Our publications:

• Career orientation, new efforts – methodology conference issue

• Preparing for taking a job in the EU • New methods in

adult-training

AIM: of the „Támasz-pont” program is to promote the unskilled, dropped-out, unemployed young people and 16-25 year-olds registered or non-registered ones who are living in small locations closed-out from career possibilities and unemployed for 6 months with secondary education back to the labour-market or to the training.

RESULTS: During the 3 years of the KID program we have involved 350 young people and 150 youths were placed back into the labour market. In the first year of the program it came out that it was a great problem that these young people did not have education of 8 years that is essential for the training of a profession.

During the program 63 persons began our complementary training program, 13 persons left into the professional training program, 48 persons returned to some kind of secondary school (night and daily training) and 26 persons entered into work thanks to the program.

PUZZLE

„Promotion of the women’s careers in labour market”

By the social supplies of the project we try to decrease: • family obligations, which hinder jobtaking

• defects in qualifications

The target group:

• women, who try to get back into the labour market from the time of giving birth

• women, above 50 years and were dismissed from the civil sphere

The assumed results:

• 45 persons will be involved in the project

• 20 persons will get back into the labour market • The program period is 1 year

Some of our finished programs:

• promote the reintegration into the labour market of families, who were struggling with multigenerational unemployment

• human services for the registered unemployed people, which were bought by the Labour Office (individual and group

counselling)

• human specialist’s training (co-operation in the HEFOP program Human resources operating program)

• professional renewal of career documentations of the Labour Office

EVS No. 2006-HU-32

Alma Kaufmann (ES): February 2007 – August 2007 Jano Klimas (SK): December 2007 – November 2008

Zsolt Szakál (HU)