Partly as a continuation of the demographic conference held early December last year, the HEA Demographic Section and the Child- and Family-Friendly Creative Workshop organised a strategic meeting with the participation of several county general assembly presidents on Friday, 17 January 2020, in HEA Community Centre The aim of the meeting is to establish multi-county cooperation to stop population decline, improve the quality of life, and exploit the potential of family and community development with scientific, advisory and organisational support.
The need for co-operation was expressed in November last year in Nyíregyháza, during the presentation of the book “Our Future is a Child”, at the initiative of the President of the Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County General Assembly Oszkár Seszták and President of HEA’s Demographic Section József Benda. But this is preceded by a family and community development concept of Bács-Kiskun County completed in August 2019
The invitees and participants of the Friday event were László Gémes, President of the Csongrád County General Assembly and Vice President Eörs Polner; Imre Polgárdy, President of the Veszprém County General Assembly; Oszkár Seszták, President of the Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County General Assembly; Róbert Szabó, Vice President of the Heves County General Assembly; Zoltán Szebellédi, Vice President of the Békés County General Assembly; Kornél Mák, Deputy Mayor of Kecskemét; Gyula Scheuer, Chancellor of ELTE and several experts of ELTE, and the Child- and Family-Friendly Creative Workshop.