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The Hungarian Environmental Partnership Foundation aims at enhancing the development of an environmentally aware, participatory democratic society and institutional system by strengthening and supporting the civil environmental movements.

The foundation promotes the development of the environmental movement trough providing grants, training, fellowships and technical assistance where necessary.

Budapest Picnic

It is becoming almost conventional that the Hungarian Young Greens are organizing the most spectacular actions in the capital. In June, they held their 5th birthday party in the Tunnel of Budapest. With this action they also aimed at raising awareness to the contradictions and conflicts of the overcrowded city; to the unbearably jammed roads and the desolate and empty public paces. Once the city was living in the Tunnel too, while today it is not recommended even to step in. Thus, it is a good a symbol of the city turned upside down, where people have to adjust themselves to the traffic.

Visitors of the event were invited for a picnic to eat and drink in the otherwise smoky place and to play football, badminton or ping-pong in the Tunnel closed off from cars for the afternoon. A 40 square meter big green area (made of sod) invited the visitors – after the event these have been set in the court of a kindergarten.