The Campus Hungary Programme of the Balassi Institute, which was launched in 2012, came to an end this Wednesday with a closing event held within the frames of the Budapest Design Week under the title ‘Creativity and Mobility’.
The volume ‘Creativity and Mobility – Hungarian higher education as a national brand’ debuted at the event, while young researchers and students participating in the scholarship programme reported on their research and experiences.
In his opening speech Deputy State Secretary for Cultural Diplomacy Dezső B. Szabó stressed that Campus Hungary is a unique mobility programme in which students could apply to all countries of the world regardless of fields of science. According to the Deputy State Secretary, Hungarian students have won scholarships to nearly 90 countries during the course of the programme.
He said as well that considering its theme, the issued volume is a market novelty. He pointed out that the European Commission publishes annually the European Innovation Scoreboard, which measures the Member States on the basis of the results of 29 innovation indicators.
According to the Scoreboard, countries including the Scandinavian states and Germany fell in the leading category and the following category includes Austria as well as Benelux, while Hungary with the Visegrad Countries were placed together with Portugal and Spain in the ‘moderate’ group, with Romania and Bulgaria belonging to the fourth or ‘emerging’ category.
Dezső B. Szabó said that Hungary has a chance to get a place in the upper categories during the next two years, to which the Campus Hungary Programme may contribute as a tool of promotion.
Pál Hatos, director of the Balassi Institute emphasized that thanks to the mobility programme launched in 2012 by the Institute, more than eight thousand students have benefited from eight different types of scholarships.
(MTI / Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade)
