Agnes Molnar is part of the 20-years old Alternative Communities Association (AKE) in Hungary.

In our talk #13, Agnes told us more about the joint effort of AKE, the city of Debrecen and K-Monitor to introduce the Hungarian school system to the tool of participatory budgeting (PB) with the aim of overturning a hyper centralized system of economic management and resources distribution to the schools.

The project goes hands in hands with a powerful approach to civic engagement & pedagogy which will engages students, parents, teachers and school administrators in the process of dewhich improvements to fund through the development and implementation of community-oriented micro-projects within one school-term. 

Envisioning the PB process a a tool to foster civic participation and democratic communities, the project constitute the first mile stone of a long path.