Esélyek és egyenlőtlenségek a pályázatfinanszírozásban
Opportunities and inequalities in the financing of EU tenders

Summary/Abstract: Arbitrary control of authorities coupled with the complicatedness of EU bureaucracy has caused a great deal of difficulties for the applicants during the first two terms of a HEFOP tender originally intended to help eliminate cultural barriers of Roma children. Lányi András and his students investigated the effects of an inhuman and unreliable application process. The aim was to extend civil initiative to educate the disadvantaged outside the school system and disseminate “best practices” in the course of the project, but participants soon had to start spending the majority of their time complying with the ever changing demands of a just too complicated financing procedure. Small organizations with the best professional background got ruined by the nonsensical financial conditions. They could hardly earn a penny in the first half year of the project while they were forced to send detailed reports about the use of the money they never received. If tasks were still fulfilled it was only due to the merit of the teachers employed by the civil organizations. They worked for free in a lot of cases as exploitation was not new to them. The question rises: why should we insist on concentrating resources for improvement outside the education system in this framework if the rules do not work well for voluntary organizations – but they rather cause their bankruptcy?

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