People.
Places.
Food.
On a Mission.

Making new connections

Holis is a place-based learning program to tackle critical social and environmental challenges through interdisciplinary collaboration and collective intelligence. Every year we bring together professionals from a wide range of disciplines to work on real projects with the support of outstanding team facilitators.‍ This learning experience is helping local communities at the same time. No mental energy should be wasted.

Walk the talk

Holis is also a collective of professionals who has at least one thing in common. They all working on projects that brings us closer to a more just and sustainable world. We are working with clients who share our mission.

We are proud what we've done so far

The first Holis focused on the future scenarios of an old felt factory in Hungary, which at the time was suffering from a 90% loss of income due to the rise in popularity of synthetic felts. As a result of the solutions that Holis participants helped to identify and implement, the felt factory now has new owners, new products, and other thriving business activities. Since then we’ve been working on various challenges in different countries.

Past Holis Summer School

Open School for Village Hosts

Training programme to connect the rural pioneers, across Europe to share their knowledge & create a community around village hosting.

Online Platform / Study visit at Grottole, Italy
March - August 2023
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Past Holis Summer School

HOLIS SCHOOL: Building resilience of NGOs

What lies ahead for NGOs and non-profit organizations on a local (global) scale? How does the cultivation of a flexible yet resilient organizational culture impact daily operations? How can we support them?

Centrum Veronica Hostětín / Czech Republic
27th of August - 4th of September 2023
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Past Holis Summer School

Early Childhood Development System in Visegrad Region

Early childhood experiences affect the development of brain architecture, which provides the foundation for all future learning, behavior, and health. How might we improve the system of early childhood development in the Visegrad Region?

Live Online Sessions
October-November 2021
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Past Holis Summer School

Revitalizing Economic and Social Fabrics

We partnered with CLARA - Center for Rural Future to revitalise the economic and social fabric of the Odemira Region in Portugal

Sabóia, Portugal
2019
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Past Holis Summer School

Rural social innovation

In 2018 we explored what are the challenges of rural Poland and what can we do about them.

Sobole, Poland
2018
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Past Holis Summer School

Community and business

We partnered up with Spomlek, a local cheese factory and asked ourselves: how a local business can serve the community around it?

Sobole, Poland
2017
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Few alumni

Hover me!
Industrial, Product Design
Dan Pikalo
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Service Design
Amber Francis
Savannah, GA, USA
Graphic designer
Karolina Styczeń
Cracow, Poland
Architect at Paradigma Ariadné
Dávid Smiló
Budapest, Hungary
PhD student
Zuzana Waszczuková
Bratislava, Slovakia
Integrated Design / Communication Design
Sophia Nan Wu
Cologne, Germany
UX Designer
Karina Rachwał
Wrocław, Poland
Project manager
Magdolna Györgyei Szabó
Hungary
Business Analyst
Katalin Zsuzsanna Nagy-Szabó
Budapest, Hungary
Innovation & Service design
Fei Feng
Beijing, China
Product Designer
Michał Kociszewski
Łódź, Poland
Media & Communication / Urban Studies
Monika Domanska
Gdynia, Poland
Product design
Bálint Eckhardt
London, UK
Service Designer
Collyn Cooper
Düsseldorf, Germany
Designer
Jeremiasz Rzenno
Glasgow, UK
Product Designer
Fanni Csöbi
Düsseldorf, Germany
Graphic Designer
Panna Júlia Petró
Budapest, Hungary
Architect
Attila Ágoston
Romania
Engineering Project Manager at Hello Wood Group
Nóra Láng
Budapest, Hungary
Designer
Eszter Horváth
Budapest, Hungary
Design Engineer at Delft Hyperloop
Maciej Zawierucha
Delft, The Netherlands
Designer at ChemAxon
Gábor Lukács
Budapest, Hungary
PhD student
Monika Favara-Kurkowski
Warsaw, Poland
Artist, Freelance Graphic Designer
Daniel Kozma
Budapest, Hungary
Account manager at Mito
Anna Mészár
Budapest, Hungary
Production Coordinator
Katarzyna Witkowska
Katowice, Poland
Biology
Enikő Molnár
Romania
Geoinformatics
Karolina Sielicka
Warsaw, Poland
Media design
Evelin Horváth
Budapest, Hungary
Curatorial Practice
Kasia Zawada
Glasgow, UK
Product designer
Zsolt Sarkadi
Budapest, Hungary
Architect
Zoltán Takács
Bratislava, Slovakia
Visual communication
Adrienn Gréta Schönberg
Romania
Finance
Ágnes Marczinkó
Budapest, Hungary
Theology
Anna Diósy
Budapest, Hungary
Communication & PR
Sarolta Lapohos
Romania
Landscape architect
Enikő Tóth
Gyöngyös, Hungary
E-commerce entrepreneur
Aniko Brachmann
Budapest, Hungary
Architect
Márk Kendernay
Bath, UK
Architectural designer
Csaba Szalai
Budapest, Hungary
Furniture designer
Amira El Shawarby
Cairo, Egypt
Integrated Design / Landscape Design
Shumin Luo
Cologne, Germany
Philosophy
Bence Makkai
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Creative Direction
Sandra Dernbach
Cologne, Germany
Product and Industrial Design
Tamara Olbrys
Warsaw, Poland
Service Management
Kitija Matisone
Copenhagen, Denmark
Digital Design
Miriam Loos
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Graphic design
Hermina Csala
Romania
Event manager
Bettina Alscher
Budapest, Hungary
Co-founder at LAVOR
Sarolta Szonja Molnár
Budapest, Hungary
Preservation of Cultural and Architectural Heritage
Anna Regina Enyedi
Romania
Industrial Design/ Speculative Design
Dominika Majewska
Denmark
Urban planner
Zsuzsa Czeiz
Budapest, Hungary
Architect
Erdenejargal Rinzaan
Budapest, Hungary
Strategic Designer
Sara Galan
Mexico City, Mexico
Service Designer
Zsófia Szatmári-Margitai
Innsbruck, Austria
Service Design
Marta Salas
Madrid, Spain
Human Centred Design, Ergonomics
Robin Hancock
Bristol, UK
Architect at Paradigma Ariadné
Attila Róbert Csóka
Budapest, Hungary
Experience Designer at Mirum Agency
Larasati Larasati
London, UK
Strategic Product Design
Gunjan Singh
The Hague, Netherlands
Architect
Beáta Bartha
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Communication specialist
Mónika Simon
Budapest, Hungary
Google Ads Specialist at Majorel
Lóránt Korodi-Vass
Romania
Cultural anthropology
Lili Varga
Budapest, Hungary
Luca Elek
Budapest, Hungary
Head of Global Marketing at OnRobot
Nóra Bereczki
Budapest, Hungary
Business Development Director & Brand Specialist
Beatriz Segura Garcia
Spain
Urbanism
Emese Burista
Louvain, Belgium
Pattern designer and illustrator
Lili Veszprémi
Budapest, Hungary
Consultant, project manager
Alvaro Valls Boix
Spain
Mathematical Modeller at Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Beáta Tünde Szabó
Budapest, Hungary
User experience researcher, design strategist & speaker
Archie MS
Atlanta, USA
Founder at Stilblog
Petra Hoffmann
Budapest, Hungary
Project manager
Eszter Kalóz
Berlin, Germany
Architect and graphic designer
Sára Dányádi
Budapest, Hungary
Customer Experience Designer at O.P. Holdings
Hitomi Tachikawa
Tokyo, Japan
Service Designer
Pieter Overgoor
Copenhagen, Denmark
Service Designer at Cocomore
Miriam Schmalen
Cologne, Germany
Fashion and textile designer
Zsófia Papp
Budapest, Hungary
Business analyst
Andrea Szilágyi
Augsburg, Germany
UX team lead at Emarsys
Zsuzsanna Polgár
Vienna, Austria
Ecology
Anikó Bakos
Romania
Service Systems Design
Simona Mancusi
Copenhagen, Denmark
Sustainable Design Consultant & Facilitator
Justyna Turek
Strategic Service Designer
Mani I
London, UK
Customer Success Manager
Iwona Kastunowicz
Warsaw, Poland
Programme Manager at Prime Minister's Office
András Stefanik
Budapest, Hungary
Service designer at Globant
Silvia Romano Redondo
Madrid, Spain
Art history
Beáta Bordás
Romania
Product designer
Robert Raimann
Gdansk, Poland
Textile design
Petra Debnárová
Berlin, Germany
Singer
Andrea Vâță-Diénes
Romania
Digital Communications Manager at Legrand
Tamás Ádám Vedres
Budapest, Hungary
Digital Storyteller Designer at Yello Strom GmbH
Miguel Lobato
Mexico City, Mexico
Industrial design
Tamara Lašič Jurković
Ljubljana, Slovenia
UX designer and researcher
Zsófia Czémán
Vienna, Austria
International studies
Zsófia Méhes
Berlin, Germany
Product designer at Frontíra
Zsófia Elek
Budapest, Hungary
Researcher
Áron Miszlivetz
Budapest, Hungary