Community building
A living network of connections between local actors.
Irány Points
Communities of the future
An Irány Point is a think tank and community hub. Its aim is for citizens to organise on a voluntary basis to think, act and build the future together.
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An open space for thinking and action
Everyone can find a place here who wants to contribute to building the shared future on a professional or community basis.
Mapping local problems
Real needs, shared solutions.
Preparing projects
Drawing up concrete action plans.
Types of Irány Point
Community, professional, or both
An Irány Point can be community-based or professional — or even both.
Community Irány Point
For local community builders
Local community building, shared experiences, organising charitable and community programmes. Its task is to strengthen a positive national identity.
Community Irány Points also represent the interests of local communities. They uncover problems affecting the settlement, draw up proposals, launch petitions, and act on concrete matters such as road repairs, improving transport, the state of public spaces or developing local services.
For this they receive professional help, usable templates and good examples already proven in other settlements, so that real results can grow from local initiatives.
Examples: community events, team-building programme, fundraising, cultural evening, local petition, advocacy proposal.
Professional Irány Point
For experts and opinion leaders
It chooses a specific professional topic, then uncovers the problems, prepares proposed solutions, debates and studies, representing them credibly.
LocalConcrete matters of a village or town (transport, drinking-water quality).
RegionalMatters of a larger region (the state of the Danube, saving Lake Balaton).
NationalPolicy questions (the situation of teachers, nurses).
Cross-borderMatters of Hungarian communities in neighbouring countries.
InternationalHungary, the EU and other international relations.
Output: professional proposals, studies and position papers that can feed into IRÁNY’s project and programme development.
Membership and organisation
Open, flexible, independent
- Number of members
- 5–20 people. It can be founded from just 1 person.
- Multiple membership
- One person can be the leader and member of several Irány Points.
- Open or closed
- Open: welcomes new members and ideas. Closed: the existing community works together.
- Independent of party sympathy
- Anyone can join; you don’t have to be an IRÁNY voter.
An Irány Point is official when…
- At least 5 people have joined.
- They have accepted the three mandatory documents: Code of Ethics, Founding Declaration, Operating Rules.
- It organises at least one event each quarter.
Quarterly activity can be
Professional talkCommunity eveningCharity actionProposal, study
If the Code of Ethics is breached, the Irány Point is placed under suspended status; its operation is temporarily paused, and after review it can be decided whether to reinstate or close it.
Tasks and goals
What an Irány Point builds
The common tasks apply to every Irány Point. Community Irány Points additionally take on a role around local public life and putting forward candidates.
Tasks of every Irány Point
Building civil community
Living, open communities where people meet, think and create together — a participatory, people-centred public life.
Strengthening a positive national identity
Shared experiences and professional, cultural and community programmes that build a cohesive national identity.
Encouraging independent initiatives
Not a central executive body, but an initiating community: “Bring your idea, let’s make it happen together!”
A change of culture, a new public mindset
Integrity, trust, dignity, openness. Here we are not against one another, but for one another.
Recruitment and new generations
Finding and preparing the community leaders and experts of the future: mentoring programmes, training, involving young people.
National and international coverage
Hungarian communities beyond the borders, diasporas, regional centres. “Think in Europe, build at home!”
Gathering professional knowledge and opportunities
Mapping local problems, hidden resources and innovation potential — from people, not from statistics.
Organising a supportive public life
A culture built on cooperation: civic evenings, debate circles, themed film clubs, dialogue between generations.
Organising and carrying out projects
Community garden, technology workshop, democracy class, green transport, “mini futures” that set an example.
Building voting activity
Activating the community in public life at elections and beyond: a genuine participatory culture, not scaremongering. “Don’t just watch it — shape it!”
Additional tasks of a Community Irány Point
Selecting and recommending candidates
Recruiting and supporting single-member constituency and local-government candidates based on real local feedback, community conversations and references — not top-down, but bottom-up.
Following and evaluating representatives
Continuous feedback on the work of elected representatives: what do they actually do for the community? Support, but not uncritical loyalty.
Found or join an Irány Point
Think in Europe, act at home. Find your place in the communities of the future.
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