The Roundtable
Association of Veszprém is an independent legal person, non-govermental
civic woman organisation, which was established as a real „grassroots”
association by the strong women of a rural town Veszprem in 1995. We are
working under our own organisational constitution.
Our address is:
Veszprémi Nők
Kerekasztala Egyesület
8200 Veszprém Dózsa György
u 2.
Tel/Fax 36
88 411 976
E-mail:
venoke@chello.hu
Homepage:
www.venoke.hu
Our focus
issues are:
To promote
balanced participation of women and men in public life, equal
opportunities, and treatment for women and men, encouragement and
empowerment of women, fighting against the invisible barriers and against
every kind of violance. To help women to protect their interest, and
welfare. We help women succesfully find their place in the new European
reality, therefore we focus of attention on teaching and using Internet.
We organise
trainings, lecturers, meetings, publications to promote women’s
participation in public life, and decisionmaking. We have large
connections in Hungary and abroad. All of our members work as volunteers.
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Our main
problems are: money, time and the bureaucracy.
Some
important previous activities of the organisation:
We focus on the following issues:
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We promote balanced participation of women and men in public life, equal opportunities, treatment for
women and men |
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We encourage and empower women, we fight against the invisible barriers and against every kind of violence. |
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We help women to protect their interest, and welfare and we help them in order to successfully find their place in
the new European reality, therefore we focus on teaching and using Internet. |
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We organise training, lectures, meetings, publications to promote women’s participation in public life and decision-making. We have large connections in Hungary and abroad. All of our members work as volunteers. |
Our main problems are:
money, time and bureaucracy.
1997. |
We
organized the Volunteers Talent Bank.
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1998. |
We carried out a project "Democracy"
supported by Soros fund and
Leuge of Women Voters of America.
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1998. |
We wrote and
published a book: Nőszemközt az ezredfordulóval. It is about
the women's problem during the transition of political system.
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1999. |
We made and carried out a project for young ladies to
prepare them for the public life
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2000. |
A project for women of
Veszprem county: Women’s statements and life stories for
next generations. (This project is continued, until now 300
women wrote their life and messages, and 400 women attended the prize
giving celebration.)
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2000. |
We published a
nice book in which we selected from the best writings of women.
The title of the book
is: Mi visszük
át... (1000
copies)
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2001. |
Project about the violence
against women and children. It was supported by the local
council.
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2001. |
Training for the parents of
mentally retarded children.
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2002. |
Project for
potential women candidates to help them preparing for the
election.
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2002. |
2002.
We wrote and published a book . Title: Hiányzol, Éva!
(We
miss you, Eva!) The book contains 77 good pieces of advice for women
candidates and 7X7 "wisdom" for women in public life
(1000 copies).
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2002. |
We
helped the women candidates during the municipal elections.
(Training, campaign for women, posters
for women. etc....)
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2002. |
We covered the expenses of the computer studies for our 30
members.
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2003. |
We
made our homepage
www.venoke.hu and we started new topics for women.
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2003. |
We
organised a two days national conference: Women in the Heart of
Europe-Europe in the Heart of Women.
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2003. |
We expressed our opinion on different drafts
of new laws- latest the National Civic Basic Law.
(NCA)
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2003. |
We are founder member of Hungarian Women's Lobby. It is a member of EWL
(European Women's Lobby) and we established a working committee for
"women's public life."
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2004. |
We organised
programmes for introducing EU to women and working together with
other women organisations (Várpalota, Keszthely) we produced great
events in three towns. These were Európa nő! days.
(its a
play on words, nő means both to grow and woman)
We made a cultural
women portal on Internet
http://sophiaporta.gportal.hu
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2004. |
We have published a
beautiful book written by Mihaly Praznovszky literary historian.It is
about famous women of Hungarian history and literature.
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2004. |
We carried out a
project about the actual problems of gender mainstreaming,
concentrating the problem of the role of modern men. We wrote a book
under the title„We miss you, Adam!”(unfortunataly becouse of
financial problems we were not able to publish it.
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2005. |
We
celebrated the 10th anniversary of the foundation of our organisation.
We appreciated the work of our volunteers and the civic life in our
town.. We had a project, a conference and some great meetings about it.
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2005. |
We had a film made about oru life, and we collected the
memories from the civic organization of our town..
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2005. |
We made a SWOT analisis
about the civil life of our town
We were one of the organisators of the first mother- in- law
festival in Hungary in Rátót.
We explored the history of women’s organisations in XIX-XX centuries
in Veszprém, and we organised a conference about it.
We took part different national and international women
organisations’ work. Our president was a delegate in the GA of
European Women’s Lobby in London.
We organised an commemoration to remember the first primeminister
Joseph Antall on the anniversary of his death.
We organised our books review in different neighbouring towns (
Pápa, Nagyvázsony, Balatonfüred, Várpalota)
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2005. |
We have carried out our
project „We miss you, Adam!” It was about the actual problems of
gender mainstreaming. We organized some very popular meetings in this
topic . We have written a book under this title, but unfortunatly,
becouse of our financial problems we have not been able to publish it.
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2006. |
Let speak about Europe
. We participated in a movement about how to make the EU’s actual
problems popular. We organised a conference about the civil
organisations’ and women’s problems in Europe. Our lectures were women
MP-s in the EU Parliement.
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2006. |
Creative women in
our town. Ehibition for „amateur” women in the fine arts. Near
40 women’s work were
displayed for a month . It was very succesful.
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2006. |
Great project
for the 50th anniversary of Hungarian Revolution in 1956.
The project title is:
„
The dark pearls of
our young age” We collected the memories of the survivers of the
dark years of Hungarian
history.
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2006. |
We are going to raise a monument to the memory of the women of
Veszprém who demonstrated with flowers in their hands against the
Russian tanks on
6th December
1956
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2006. |
We built up
connections with Hungarian women in public life in Slovakia and
Transylvania. We visited each other and we changed our
experiances. We presented them with 200 copies of our adviser book „
We miss you , Eva!”
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2006. |
Our actual
problem is (except our constant financial problems) how to make our
organisation rejuvenated, and how to bring younger women into public
life.
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Veszprém 2006. october
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Júlia
Huszár |