Service Areas

Development of Public Services

Digital health & telemedicine, hospital infrastructure, health prevention, competitive municipalities, information access, and elderly care solutions.

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Supporting Green Transition

Green urban spaces, sustainable tourism, nature-based solutions, energy efficiency, climate resilience, circular economy, and eco-friendly transport.

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Regional and Urban Development

Digital health & telemedicine, enhanced hospital infrastructure, health prevention, competitive municipalities, information access, and comprehensive elderly care solutions.

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Project Development and Management

Expert project development & management for EU funding, smart financial engineering, tailored application strategies, and smooth implementation support.

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Public policy counseling

Expertise in EU program elaboration, evaluation, strategic environmental assessments, guideline creation, best practices, and ex post assessments for international donors like OECD and EU Commission.

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Smart solutions, innovation

Smart City strategies, telemedicine, digital transition projects, innovation ecosystems, smart aging solutions, and intelligent data use for enhanced development.

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Founded in 1990

Circular economy, active ageing, smart cities. . .

. . . in Hungary we were among the first to initiate and establish projects in relation to these principal European objectives.

In a European context, HBH has an outstanding success rate demonstrating excellent knowledge in the funding programmes and schemes. Our colleagues are prominent experts in the most important development policy areas such as urban development, economics and tourism. We care deeply for our living environment and we take social responsibility seriously.

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Brings together over 30 years of expertise

Our extensive experience ranges from regional and urban development, local economic development, social innovation, tourism to other important thematic areas of the EU development policy.

Our Clients

Our Valued Clients: Partners in Progress and Innovation

Prime Minister’s Office
Ministry of Interior
Ministry of Finance
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

OFA Nonprofit Ltd.
Széchenyi Program Office Nonprofit Ltd.
National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
National Hospital Directorate

North Brabant Regional Government – Netherlands
Parkstadt – Limburg Regional Government – Netherlands
Potenza Provincial Government – Italy

Domestic

County-level cities
Medium-sized towns
Small settlements and their associations
Budapest and its districts
Municipal associations

International

NETHERLANDS (Eindhoven, Breda, Tilburg, Herleen)
ITALY (Trento, Potenza, Rome)
IRELAND (Dublin)
PORTUGAL (Loulé)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
OECD
URBACT Secretariat, FRANCE

Eötvös Loránd University
Semmelweis University
Metropolitan University
Open University Netherlands
University of Maribor – Slovenia

Csongrád County Health Care Center Hódmezővásárhely-Makó
Miskolc Semmelweis Hospital and University Teaching Hospital
Pest County Flór Ferenc Hospital
Upper-Szabolcs Hospital (Kisvárda)

Hungarian Maltese Charity Service Association
European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation (EGTCs)
Chambers of Commerce and Industry
EDC Debrecen Nonprofit Ltd.

WWF Hungary Foundation
Vereniging Regio Water (Regional Water Association), Netherlands

Meet our Founders

Krisztina Hollai

Krisztina Hollai

Ágnes Hitesy

Ágnes Hitesy

“We are very satisfied with our choice to have invited HBH in assisting our project development work: together, we have already submitted four winning EU applications.”

Baja Város

“We have been working with HBH for over 10 years. They are the top consultancy helping us combine mainstream and direct EU funding in our developments.”

Újbudai Önkormányzat

“We couldn’t have realized our major city development projects without the professional assistance of HBH.”

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    About Us

    In a European context, HBH has an outstanding success rate demonstrating excellent knowledge in the funding programmes and schemes.

    Service Areas

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    Regional and Urban Development

    • Assistance with designing cooperation patterns within and between urban and metropolitan areas
    • Elaboration of integrated and sustainable urban development strategies
    • Elaboration of local economy development strategies and employment action plans
    • Contribute to preparing and implementing urban development projects
    • Design of tourism development strategies and projects
    • Housing policy related project development

    Funding Sources

    • OP for Spatial and Urban Development/Human Resources Development OP/ Environment and Energy OP
    • EU URBACT Programme
    • European Urban Initiative (EUI)
    • Horizon 2020 / Horizon Europe (HE)
    • EU Creative Europe Programme

    Main References

    • Preparation of sustainable urban development strategies, e.g. Sopron (county capital city) Békéscsaba (metropolitan area) Makó (middle size city)
    • Preparation of Bács-Kiskun County “Employment Pact” and Development Strategy
    • Urban development projects: urban regeneration; green city;urban energy transition programme; social inclusion driven urban regeneration; CLLD; cohesion
    • Elaboration of Újbuda Municipality (Budapest 11. District) winning UIA CUP project: cultural community building in metropolitan environment through youth involvement
    • Pons Danubii EGTC: Cross-border Employment Action Plan (SK-HU CBC Programme)
    • Budapest Capital City:Developing of “AHA Budapest” EUI project dealing with affordable housing through smart innovations

    Public Policy Counseling

    • Expert contribution to the elaboration and evaluation of various EU development Programmes (national OP’s, Interreg CBC and Transnational programmes)
    • SEA: Strategic Environmental Assessment
    • Elaboration of guidelines, manuals, catalogue of best practices related to the implementation of programmes
    • Ex post assessment of various EU development programmes assigned by international donor organizations (OECD) and the EU Commission

    Main References

    • Territorial OP Managing Authority: Assessment of experiences in integrated territorial planning, embedding conclusions into the new planning documents ( 2021-2027) - evaluation of individual integrated programmes and CLLD programmes
    • Assessment of developments in vocational training and adult education ( 2014-2020) - evaluation of implementation of various public policy related development programmes funded by EU Cohesion funds ( as member of Ernst and Young-Multicontact- Equinox consortium)
    • OECD - Assessment of use of Nature Based Solutions in national OP’s and the current practice of potential users
    • Elaboration of SEA studies related to HU-SK, HU-SRB and SI-HU CBC programmes (2021-2027)
    • EU Urban Innovative Programme( UIA) Secretariat: Assessment of 2014-2020 UIA Programme, policy recommendations for the new EUI Programme
    • DG Regio: expert contribution to the ex-post evaluation of the 2014-2020 Cohesion Policy -( country study for Hungary ( member of the Consortium lead by CSES)

    Smart Solutions, Innovation

    • Development of “Smart City” strategies
    • Preparation of studies and projects in Telemedicine
    • Preparation of major projects related to the “digital transition” (in health/public health, culture, community building, housing)
    • Facilitation of innovation ecosystem building, capacity development
    • Project development, preparation of applications related to “smart aging”
    • Intelligent use of data

    Main References

    • Preparing “Smart city “ concepts- Baja, Rácalmás, Veresegyház
    • National Directorate General for Hospitals: reengineering of Telemedicine related processes; preparation of feasibility study of Telemedicina service and methodology Center in consortium with Semmelweis University
    • ELTE TINLAB (National Laboratory for Social Innovation - Eötvös Lóránd University): development of projects and preparation of applications
    • Eindhoven Brainport (NL)- project preparation and management services to health innovation projects using new and novel smart toolkits

    Project Development and Management Related to National and Direct EU Funding Programmes

    We are prepared to design local-regional development programmes and projects to be funded through “smart financial engineering” optimizing the combination of national and direct EU (or other donor) funding options:

    • Elaboration of “Application strategy” to match development needs and funding options to be implemented by way of smart financing schemes
    • Development of projects, preparation of applications fitting to the administrative and professional requirements of the selected funding programmes
    • Provision of administrative and process management capacity for the smooth and safe implementation of the projects
    • Energy efficiency- Renewable energy
    • Climate resilience
    • Circular Economy
    • Sustainable urban transport

    Main References

    • Application strategies for Budapest districts ( 1., 3., 12., 22.) and major cities
    • Application strategies for universities (ELTE, SOTE, University of Szeged, METU)
    • Project development for municipalities to be funded by OP for Spatial and Urban Development, Competitive Central Hungary OP, Human Resources Development OP, Economic Development and Innovation OP, Environment and Energy OP
    • Project development services for more than 200 projects assigned by an international clientele (80% success rate), full or partial management services for their implementation
    • Projects development and management services for so called “Strategic” or flagship projects ( over 5 millions budget) in various CBC programmes ( HU-SK, RO-HU, HU-HR)

    Supporting Green Transition

    • Green City; Green-Blue Infrastructure
    • Sustainable tourism
    • Nature Based Solutions (NBS)
    • Energy efficiency- Renewable energy
    • Climate resilience
    • Circular Economy
    • Sustainable urban transport

    Funding Sources

    • Environment and Energy OP, OP for Spatial and Urban Development
    • Life +
    • Interreg programmes
    • Horizon Europe
    • EUCF

    Main References

    • Sopron: Hospitality and tourism driven infrastructure development of Saint Michel Church
    • Szeged-Makó area: Tourism development strategy
    • TeAM-HUB (Nature Based Solutions” Hungarian Network and Knowledge Centre): founding partner
    • Szeged: Combating “Heat Inlands” with innovative measures (LIFE COOL)
    • Mijnwater B.V. (NL) - D2Grids: Reusing mine waters for energy production (Interreg North West Europe Programme)
    • EUCF - EU City Facility Programme: elaboration of 4 winning EUCF applications, contributing to the design of urban energy concept/programme development

    Development of Public Services

    • Digitized Health Service; Telemedicine
    • Infrastructure development for hospitals, health prevention
    • Competitive municipalities
    • Information freedom
    • Active and healthy aging, elderly care

    Funding Sources

    • Public Administration and Public Services Development OP/Competitive Central Hungary OP/Human Resources Development OP
    • Interreg CBC
    • Interreg Europe
    • Interreg Central Europe
    • Interreg Danube
    • EU4Health
    • Horizon Europe

    Main References

    • National Directorate General for Hospitals: Feasibility study for the establishment of a Telemedicina service and methodology center – in consortium with Semmelweis University Medicine and Health Sciences
    • State Secretariat for Local Government, Ministry of the Interior: Design and implementation of a comprehensive research programme on the competitiveness of local governments – in consortium with Collectivo Ltd
    • Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (NAIH): design and implementation of a comprehensive research programme on the delivery of public data -- in consortium with Ex Ante Ltd
    • Csongrád-Csanád County Health Care Centre: Cross-border health infrastructure development (flagship project of the 2014-21 Interreg RO-HU CBC Programme)
    • Hungarian Charity Service of the Order of Malta: Strengthening of social enterprises (Interreg Central Europe Programme)
    • Province of Limburg (NL) - DigitalDeConstruction: Implementing new construction projects by using demolition waste, supported by digital technology (Interreg North West Europe Programme)

    Térség- és városfejlesztés

    • Várostérségek, települési együttműködések tervezése, támogatása
    • Integrált város / településfejlesztési, Fenntartható városfejlesztési stratégiák elkészítése,
    • Helyi gazdaságfejlesztési stratégiák, foglalkoztatási akciótervek kidolgozása,
    • Szakmai közreműködés városfejlesztési projektek előkészítésében és végrehajtásában
    • Turisztikai fejlesztések ( stratégiák, projektek) előkészítése
    • Lakhatás-politikához kapcsolódó projekt-előkészítés

    Források

    • TOP / EFOP / KEHOP
    • EU URBACT Program
    • European Urban Initiative (EUI)
    • Horizon 2020 / Horizon Europe (HE)
    • EU Creative Europe Program

    Kiemelt Referenciák

    • Fenntartható városfejlesztési stratégiák készítése pl. megyei jogú város: Sopron; várostérség: Békéscsaba; középváros: Makó.
    • Bács-Kiskun megyei Foglalkoztatási Paktum - Fejlesztési stratégia elkészítése
    • Városfejlesztési projektek: városrehabilitáció, zöld város, városi energetikai fejlesztések, szociális városrehabilitáció, CLLD, kohézió
    • Újbuda Önkormányzata - CUP ( EU Urban Innovative Actions Program): kulturális közösségfejlesztés nagyvárosi fiatalok bevonásával
    • Pons Danubii EGTC - Foglalkoztatási Területi Akcióterv (SK-HU Interreg CBC Program)
    • Budapest Főváros - AHA Budapest (EUI Program): megfizethető nagyvárosi lakhatás innovatív megoldások alkalmazásával