I graduated as a biologist and technical translator
from the Eötvös Loránd University in
Budapest in 2001, but already started working as a volunteer
and intern at CEEWEB in my last academic year as a student.
After graduation I experienced working in an international
environment as a volunteer for six months at Milieukontakt
Oost-Europa, an Amsterdam based NGO running environmental
projects in the CEE and NIS regions. Since then I have
worked again for CEEWEB and have taken part in the projects
and activities related to the 'Environment for Europe'
process, the Convention on Biological Diversity and
its regional arm, the Pan-European Biological and Landscape
Diversity Strategy.
Currenty I am responsible for managing the CEEweb Network
and within this framework contributing to responsible
and effective policy and decision making towards the
sustainable development of our society.
I graduated from the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj
Napoca, Romania in geography. After moving to Hungary,
I worked among others for the International House, and
joined CEEweb at the end of 2006. Now it is my task
to ensure the administrative functioning of the organisation.
Since 2006 I have been a postgraduate student at the
Technical University of Budapest, studying environmental
management systems. I am especially interested in the
organic development of local communities and would like
to help them with the means provided by Local Agenda
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Judit Herman Communications and Network Programme Coordinator
I graduated from the Department of English Language
and Literature at ELTE in 2002 and worked in the field
of human rights-especially women's rights. As I have
worked in the NGO field for 10 years, I have a lot of
experience in training and coaching volunteers, coordinating
events and managing and coordinating the birth of large
publications.
I started to work for CEEweb in 2007 as communications
and network programme coordinator. Currently I am responsible
for the following tasks:
Coordination of networking activities: I am the one
to keep contact with member organizations, and to be
contacted with questions, comments and ideas about developing
our international network.
Coordination of publications: one of my main tasks
is the coordination of the publication of our biannual
newsletter 'Diversity'. I am also responsible for updating
the homepage.
Gyula Kiss Programme Coordinator – Rural Development
I am an economist of agriculture. I graduated at the
University of Gödöllõ. I wrote my thesis
on the reformed Common Agricultural Policy of the EU
before the Eastern Enlargement. My previous agri-related
work experiences included scholarships in Luxembourg
and England, translating at the Hungarian Plant Health
and Soil Conservation Station and prior to the 2004
enlargement, EU coordination tasks at the Hungarian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs where I was responsible
for animal and plant health and rural development issues.
In 2006 I started a post-graduation course, a BSc in
Wildlife Management at the Institute for Wildlife Conservation
of the University of Gödöllõ.
As the coordinator of the CEEweb Rural Development
Working Group I primarily would like to facilitate the
integration of biodiversity considerations into the
broader context of rural development and agricultural
production by providing criticisms and joint NGO recommendations
to the relevant political forums.
When I am not working in the office or reading at home,
I am almost always outdoors, cycling in the city, walking
my dog or-most preferably-hiking in various places of
the country (not coincidently, my favourite region is
Õrség-a hilly area covered with diverse
forests and small villages).
Veronika Kiss Project Coordinator - Business and Biodiversity
I graduated as a biologist in 2006 and as a technical
translator in 2007 from the Eötvös Loránd
University in Budapest. I also got a certificate in
Business from AICL (Australian Institute of Commerce
and Language), Sydney in 2004 when I spent half a year
in Australia. In my last academic years as a student
I worked for the Institute of Ecology and Botany of
the Hungarian Academy for Sciences and as a volunteer
I assisted the work of WWF Hungary and Energy Club.
After graduating I worked for a year for the Hungarian
Natural History Museum, I participated in an EU project
called EDIT (European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy).
I also took part in analyzing the presence of some elements
of sustainable development in the Hungarian plans and
programs under the auspices of the National Conservationists.
As the CEEweb Business and Biodiversity Project Coordinator
I would like to work on the potentials of small and
medium enterprises in the field of nature conservation.
My main task will be to convince banks to develop favorable
bank loan schemes for such businesses.
Sarolta Tripolszky Programme Coordinator – Natura 2000
I graduated in 2005 from the University of Vienna with
a Masters in Biology/Ecology with additional qualification
in environmental economics. Since then I worked for
the Danube-Ipoly National Park Directorate in Budapest,
Hungary on the designation of the Natura 2000 network.
I also gained practice in the NGO sector working for
WWF Hungary and later in the WWF Head Office in Godalming,
UK. Here I was involved in various projects, among them
the edition of the first environmental economics library
on the internet, www.biodiversityeconomics.org.
As CEEWEB Natura 2000 project coordinator my main goal
is to contribute to the best possible implementation
of the Birds and Habitats Directives, and to the maintenance
of long-term protection of habitats and species in the
Central and East European region. I provide support
for the member organisations in these fields and represent
CEEWEB and the Natura 2000 Working Group in national
and international conferences and forums.
My numerous interests include environment, energy,
communication, web and print design, ceramics and of
course - sustainable tourism. I have two Master degrees
- in Environmental Management and International Communication,
which I acquired respectively at the European Postgraduate
Course on Environmental Management, Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Vilnius University,
Lithuania.
I have been with CEEweb since 2005, though for the
first one and a half years I was a volunteer. Currently
I manage CEEweb's contribution to the Carpathian Project.
I also coordinate the CEEweb Sustainable
Tourism Working Group and have edited 'Diversity'.
My previous job experience includes coordination of
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership's
Secretariat for Central and Eastern Europe at the Regional
Environmental Center, country coordinator's position
for the LA21 in Nuclear Regions Project in the ECOLOGIA
Baltic Programmes Office, and participation in the Danish-Lithuanian
State Park Institutional Development Project.
I speak Lithuanian, English, Russian and Hungarian.
I graduated from the University of Debrecen as a biologist
and English-Hungarian technical translator in 2005.
In my studies I specialized in ecology and wrote my
thesis on conservation biology. Besides, I was involved
in a national habitat mapping project. In 2003, I took
part in a 6-month study project on plant physiological
ecology at the Botanical Institute of the Copenhagen
University under an Erasmus scholarship.
Already during my studies, I was involved with environmental
nonprofit organizations. I worked with Életfa
Környezetvédõ Szövetség,
where I also spent my internship. During my high school
years, I was an active member taking part in several
of their projects and demonstrations concerning local
environmental and conservational issues (e.g. eliminating
illegal dumps, mowing protected hay meadows, disseminating
information for high school students etc.).
I joined CEEWEB in 2005 autumn as a Natura 2000 coordinator,
and since October 2006 I am on maternity leave with
my little daughter, Tünde.
