Str.Nirajului nr 14/20, Cluj, Romania
400599 Cluj-Napoca
Romania
- Democracy and community development
- International/Cultural relations
- Media
- Youth and education
The asssociation helps establishing ties between the Hungarian and the Romanian community in Romania, and particularly in Transylvania, maintaining and promoting the Romanian-Hungarian Contact Portal - Portal de Contact Român-Maghiar "Corbii Albi" (www.corbiialbi.ro).
Maintaining and promoting the Romanian-Hungarian Contact Portal - Portal de Contact Român-Maghiar "Corbii Albi" (www.corbiialbi.ro).The portal helps establishing ties between the Hungarian and the Romanian community in Romania, and particularly in Transylvania.
Day by day one or more articles are posted on the website; most of them illustrate the cultural, scientific, and technological accomplishments of the two ethnic groups. The goal of each posted article is to help people realise that there are long lasting historical ties between the two nationalities, which yielded, over centuries, significant achievements. In addition, these articles are intended to alleviate the untrue and often chauvinistic statements in today's media.
Given that our team consists of professional journalists and former school teachers, we moderate every comment prior to being posted on our portal (some are very mean), and do our best to educate people, while urging them to open up their minds.
For the youth, we translate verses of popular Hungarian rock music to Romanian, which make them understand that differences between Hungarian and Romanian adolescents is not significantly different, after all.
For those, who admire sports, we write about joint Hungarian and Romanian successes. After every article, both Hungarian and Romanian authors open a debate about the information conveyed by a given material.
The portal takes position, when Romanian and Hungarian ultra-nationalist news are disseminated in the media. As a recent example, during the Romanian-Hungarian handball game, several Hungarians whistled rudely while the Romanian anthem was played. We took this seriously, and took position. We were the only Hungarians who did so.
Also, to the best of our knowledge, we have been the only ones to publicise and to promote in the Hungarian sphere the activity of the Romanian representatives from Harghita and Covasna counties.
This portal teaches about the importance of co-existance, without harming each other.
As far as we know, this is the only interethnic portal in Europe, which tries to educate people, extending help with these often difficult to handle issues. This helps people to figure out by themselves how to solve such problems, and helps them solving similar problems that may arise in the future.
We can publish articles, which can show the interethnic relations anywhere in the world, bringing to the foreground the positive examples of cohabitation. The publised articles on the portal reaches thousands of people, especially the romanian readers. We would assume promoting certain assossiations who are fighting for minority rights, because we can learn from it. We'd recruit those jurnalists, presenting them the most important questions in the Hungarian-Romaninan relationship,who are willing to write about civil work in romanian or even in english. We would also like to secure communication options for those young people.
The main reason why we want to join the ALF Network is because we looking for ne relations, partnerships. We would like to evolve, also having the urge to see how others react and handle the interethnical problems, issues. We`d also like to help others, because the articles on the portal reacher a wide amount of importan people.