Pannónia Scholarship Program Turns Out to Be a Huge Success

Balázs Hankó, Minister of Culture and Innovation, assessed the first half of the Pannónia Scholarship Program, which ended in January, as a huge success. He also said that this May, for the first time, there will be a Hungarian higher education gala in the Carpathian Basin.

In the first semester of the program, 3,052 students have been accepted to the world’s leading universities. The Pannónia Scholarship Program has more young people going to universities abroad, has a higher scholarship that students receive in advance, and is fully credit-bearing, he said, comparing it to the Erasmus program.

In addition to European universities, 62 young people have been able to study in the United States, 45 in the United Kingdom, 31 in Japan, and more than 20 in China.

Balázs Hankó pointed out that Hungarian higher education is strong, with 4,045 cooperation agreements in place between universities. He cited as an example that in the first semester, more than 200 students attended Spanish universities, 91 are currently in Spain, and there are more than 130 Spanish-Hungarian university links.

According to David Pressman’s statement over the weekend, the renewed university model “goes against everything.” Hankó denied the statement, saying that “it represents Hungarian interests: the interests of Hungarian students, the Hungarian economy, and the Hungarian nation.” He also noted that Hungarian higher education was renewed on the basis of the universities’ proposals.

Speaking about the soon-to-be-launched Universities 2030 program, Hankó said that the first phase of the renewal had been successfully completed;

Hungarian universities had been renewed and twelve Hungarian institutions were among the top 5% of the world’s universities.

The program is being launched with the aim of having a university in the top 100 in the world by 2030. In the coming months, he said, a “Hungarian university tour” will be launched for students and teachers in the Carpathian Basin, and in May, for the first time, a Carpathian Basin Hungarian higher education gala will be held.

Hungarian universities welcome foreign students under the Erasmus program, with around 5,000 students participating in the program in Hungary, while Hungarian students are offered scholarships to the best universities in the world through the Pannónia Scholarship Program.

Via MTI; Featured picture:MTI/Purger Tamás