In all our international projects, we consider our main task as a Hungarian partner is to implement the principle of “Nothing about us, without us”.
This is why we have created a Focusgroup in 2023 within the association, made up of active members who commit to contribute to this principle through their work, opinions, comments or even personal participation.
They are those who shape the progress of international projects by enforcing the above principle, thus having a huge impact on the quality of life of people with disabilities at European level.

On 3. December 2024, some members of our Focusgroup had a fantastic performance at the week-long meeting of our international Soul Mate project in Rome.
The project on mental support for employees with disabilities is currently running a training course on this topic for future trainers and partners.
On this day, the People First Association held the afternoon session, where we presented our Focusgroup.
We talked about its structure, its work in international projects.
We talked about what it’s like to be involved and to be a member of a Focusgroup in the Soul Mate project.
And we talked about what it’s like to be an employee in the primary labour market as a person with a disability.
All this was particularly relevant yesterday on World Day of People with Disabilities.

We heard some really good presentations and, especially personal experiences on the above topics in English from our Focusgroup members: Hilda, Ágota, Zoli, Gergő and Péter. Congratulations for your honest and important thoughts!

Just recently, we held an end-of-year brunch with the Focusgroup members, where the association’s leadership thanked the 17 active and committed members for their work this year. We consider their work to be crucial to international projects and they deserve recognition for this.

Learn more about our international projects in the Projects menu on our website.