📅 Implementation: Mar 2025 – Mar 2026 (12 months)
💶 Total Budget: €200,392.92 | ERDF Contribution: €160,314.33
🤝 Partners: 3 institutions
🎯 Type: People to people project | P2P

Summary
RESTORED addresses the common challenge of a relatively weak civil society in the ROHU cross-border area, particularly in rural localities like Cheț, Ioaniș, and Berettyóújfalu. The project aims to strengthen civil society's capacity to influence regional decision-making and promote socioeconomic development, regional cooperation, and intercultural dialogue. By integrating restorative practices and traditional arts and crafts into community development activities, RESTORED seeks to support local identity, retain local values, and foster trust, understanding, and cooperation across borders. This holistic approach leverages emotional intelligence, empathy, creativity, and community bonds to foster community development, prevent conflicts, and address them comprehensively and effectively.

Project Aim
The project aims to enhance mutual trust, resilience, and harmony among cooperating communities from the ROHU  border area by actively engaging a minimum of 1,165 people in restorative practices and traditional arts and crafts activities.

Objectives
✅ Strengthen civil society's capacity to influence regional decision-making
✅ Promote socioeconomic development, regional cooperation, and intercultural dialogue
✅ Integrate restorative practices and traditional arts and crafts into community development
✅ Foster trust, understanding, and cooperation across borders
✅ Support local identity and retain local values

Key Activities & Results
🔹 Joint Thematic Workshops – Organise 4 workshops on restorative practices in Cheț, engaging 100 participants.
🔹 Traditional Arts and Crafts Workshops – Conduct 10 workshops in Berettyóújfalu, Cheț, and Salonta, involving 150 participants to revive shared cultural practices and skills.
🔹 Arts and Crafts Training – Provide 2 training sessions in Berettyóújfalu for 30 participants, including teachers, school counselors, psychologists, youth leaders, and NGO representatives.
🔹 Community Applications – Implement the joint approach learned during the restorative practice and crafts workshops in Cheț and Ioaniș after-schools and communities, and organise 3 one-day craft workshops and 3 thematic workshops for professional support.
🔹 Family Camps – Host 3 family camps in Cheț, Ioaniș, and Berettyóújfalu, engaging 170 participants.
🔹 Joint Roaming Exhibition – Organise an exhibition of traditional arts and crafts, attracting 300 visitors as a result of the camps.
🔹 Joint Conference – Hold a 2-day conference on restorative practices for 100 participants, to present findings, share experiences, and strengthen the new network of practitioners.
🔹 Joint Network Development – Establish a network and develop a joint plan for integrating restorative practices and crafts in community activities.

By fostering mutual trust, resilience, and harmony through restorative practices and traditional arts and crafts, RESTORED creates a sustainable and inclusive framework for community development and cross-border cooperation in the ROHU area.

*For more details, consult the project fact sheet:  EN and  check out the project's Facebook page.

Partnership

Lead Partner: Kécenlét Association (RO)
Project Partners: Caritas Eparhial Oradea Association (RO), Bihar Folk Art Association (HU)

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