The Volunteer Program of the Year 2012 Award went to DIA

The Volunteer Program of the Year 2012 Award has been given to DIA by the Volunteer Center Foundaton in December 2012. The award acknowledged DIA’s 7 years of efforts in coordinating National Youth Service Day (KöZöD! Önkéntes Fiatalok Napja) in Hungary.
KöZöD! has been a great success among youth volunteer groups all over Hungary. In its best year, in 2011 it mobilized 32 000 young volunteers in 200 locations, as a result DIA won the 4th place worldwide among Global Youth Service Day (www.gysd.org) countries.

DIA continues cooperation with corporate partners

Following the organization’s traditions, DIA continues to work together with major companies.

News from our global partners

Open Society Foundations, Youth Service America and International Youth Foundation.

DIA’s National Youth Service Day 2012 (KöZöD!) Awards went to talented young social innovators

One of the four KöZöD! Awards went to Humana Magazin, a human rights magazin run by young volunteers (http://www.humanamagazin.eu/egyesulet/humana-egyesulet).

Compulsory Youth Service in Hungarian Schools starting September 2012

While DIA has been advocating the importance of youth service since its creation in 1999, and reached out to hundreds of schools and thousands of students the idea beeing that young people should get at least one chance in secondary school to be involved in projects aiming at giving back to their local community, in December 2011, the government of Hungary made youth service compulsory for all secondary school students  obtaining a matriculation.

How to see the world in 3D: Dilemma, debate, democracy, debate education by DIA

In a country where the civic education of young people has been neglected for decades including the last 22 years, debate education is one of the neglected areas of public education.

How we shape our past (HWSOP), cooperation with Citizens of Europe

A team of young Hungarians participated in an exciting project of intercultural learning along with their German, Czech, and Lithuanian counterparts looking at various aspects of their common history: fascism and Stalinism.