Walk in Our Shoes — Inclusive City Adventure — Hungary

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Program: Visegrad Fund

Dates:

Pécs, Hungary, 14—16 May 2024
Poznan Poland, 15—17 July 2024
Vrchlabí, Czech Republic, 19—20 August 2024

Project consortium: People First Hungary (beneficiary), SOWELO Foundation (Poland) and EYCB (Czech Republic)

Please check out the official project webpage here: https://peoplefirst.hu/en/blog-post/walk-in-our-shoes-international-v4-project/

Project reports/updates:

Walk in Our Shoes – Inclusive City Adventure

First Hidden City Tour – Pécs, Hungary, 14—16 May 2024

It was our priviledge to be part of the first Hidden City Tour in Pécs, Hungary 🇭🇺 which was developled as a part of the Visegrad-funded „Walk in Our Shoes“ Project.

📅 In the dates 14 and 16 May 2024, the youth workers of People First – HU hosted our team and a team from 🇵🇱 Fundacja Sowelo in beautiful Pécs, Hungary as part of the V4-funded project „Walk in Our Shoes – Inclusive city adventure“ which aims at making cities more inclusive to all people, regardless of their (dis)ability.

⛪ During these three days the Czech 🇨🇿 and Polish 🇵🇱 teams had the chance to discover the beauty of Pécs in an accessible way to all, under the guidance of the 🇭🇺Hungarian beneficiary: People First – HU.

👩‍🏫 During this visit, both the Polish and the Czech teams took the opportunity to present their own Hidden City Tours preparation progress. The tours will take place in beautiful Poznan, Poland 🇵🇱 in July 2024 and in gorgeous Vrchlabí, Czech Republic 🇨🇿 in August 2024.

The realisation of this project is only possible through the kind co-financing of the Visegrad Fund (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia). The mission of the Program is to support ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.

21 June 2024

The Czech experts are intensively working on the study tour route. The team finalised the tour plans and details, observing carefully individual barriers along the way. The tour is now in its write-up phase. The team is also coming up with the accompanying activities plan for the rest of the time in Vrchlabí.

Walk in Our Shoes – Inclusive City Adventure

Second Hidden City Tour – Poznań, Poland, 15—17 July 2024

The second Study visit of the Visegrad Fund supported project named „Walk in Our Shoes – Inclusive city adventure“, took place in beautiful Poznań.

During these two days, teams from the Czech Republic and from Hungary

(People First Hungary) were hosted by our wonderful Polish partners from SOWELO Foundation.🇵🇱

Our lovely Polish hosts showed us their beautiful city by taking a walk around Poznań, showing us the programme they developed during this project. Productive and thought-inspiring discussions took place during our beautiful walk through this lovely city. We also discussed the final meeting of this project which will take place in August in Vrchlabí, Czech Republic.

In the 2nd half of September our project „Walk in Our Shoes – Inclusive city adventure“ will be concluded with an online conference where we will present the methodology of the Hidden City Tour and ways of making cities accessible to people with disabilities. All of us hope we will inspire municipalities, industry players, public and private institutions to contribute towards making out cities a more inclusive experience for everyone.

💛 If we caught your interest and you’d like to take part in the online, half a day, conference, please get in touch with us! [email protected] 💬

🧡 Please do not hesitate to also check out the official website of the project: https://peoplefirst.hu/en/blog-post/walk-in-our-shoes-international-v4-project/ 🔗

The project is co-financed by the governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from the International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.