Modernisation and expansion investment in Rákosmenti Szárszép Kindergarten I. General presentation and justification Rákosmente as the largest and 8th largest district of Budapest — contrary to national trends — has experienced a significant increase in the number of people over the last 1-2 decades. The increase in population was primarily due to young couples arriving in the district, whose children, who have since born since then, have also increased the total number of districts as cancers. Due to the above trends, the average number of children in Rákosmenta was the highest in Budapest according to the 2011 census of the HCSO. Population growth has created new challenges for local city management committed to developing early childhood care. The number of places in the former kindergarten, which was able to provide a population of 65-75 thousand, proved to be insufficient for the nearly 90 thousand district, so it was necessary to increase the capacity of the kindergarten area. Thanks to the efforts of the Municipality of Rákosmente, the Municipality of Rákosmente created a 90-seat kindergarten in Rákoshegy in the south-western part of Rákoshegy as a greenfield investment in 2011. Three years later, with the help of EU funds (under the KMOP-4.6.1 scheme), this building was expanded with additional 66 places. In the opposite part of the district, Rákoskert, in the Százszép Kindergarten, which is the subject of the project, despite the fact that demographic trends are already on a temporary downward trend, there is a significant congestion and shortage of places. The work of the institution with excellent professional work, which has won more than 50 smaller competitions — not aimed at building development — also boasts a green kindergarten title since 2007, is greatly hampered by the fact that its group rooms have an average area of 1.78 m² per child. In order to meet the needs of the kindergarten as much as possible, the former teaching room is now a forced group room with only 1.18 m² of space available for one child. Despite the overcrowding, the kindergarten cannot meet the needs of places, and there is also a significant number of rejected people. Considering that the kindergartens of the districts adjacent to the entrance district of the Százszép Kindergarten are also crowded, the only way to deal with the problem is the investment involving the expansion of places. The project, which includes the renewal and extension of the Százszép Kindergarten, aims to eliminate the current congestion with the newly created places and, on the other hand, to reduce the number of rejected by adding to the remaining new places. In addition to the extension of the space, the project will be used to replace the currently missing rooms (e.g. gymnastics room, medical room, development room, faculty room, service room). In order to ensure the complexity of the development, the project includes equipment procurement, energy, environmental and equal opportunities development and ESF-type activities at the expense of the own contribution. The main objective of the project is to help parents with young children return to the labour market with new places. The 5 new jobs that will be created under the project will also contribute to increasing employment. Investment in areas currently under-exploited will continue to avoid congestion and capacity creation in the future. II. The aim of the project is to comply with a multi-level target system with the modernisation and expansion investment of the Százcsszép Kindergarten place. During the planning of the development, special attention was also paid to the aspect that development should not be carried out in isolation, but should be in line with the developments in the narrower environment and in line with Rákosmente’s strategic documents. Two overarching objectives have been identified during the project planning. On the one hand, our priority is to ensure and increase employment opportunities for parents with children of pre-school age, to which both the creation of new places and the reduction of current congestion contribute. With the realisation of the project, 102 places will become more airy, thanks to the purchase of equipment, more modern and 58 new, compliant spaces will be created with the necessary service spaces in the new building and 2 new places in the existing building. Out of a total of 60 new places, 38 places are occupied by those attending kindergarten due to the current overcrowding situation, while in 22 places the institution hosts new children. As a result of the development, 140 children will be provided with a higher quality material environment than before and 22 families from the nursery area will have the opportunity to write their children to the pre-school with no congestion. The 2 full-time nursery nurses and 3 full-time nurses who will be admitted to kindergarten will also contribute to the project’s objective of increasing employment. In...