Universities excluded from EU programmes seek new partners

The “unfair decision” to exclude a significant number of Hungarian universities from the Erasmus and Horizon Europe programmes puts the institutions in a “difficult position”, Aron Fellegi, vice-president of consulting firm EuroAtlantic, said at a conference in Rome on Monday 8 April, reports MTI.

Fellegi told MTI that the aim of the international conference was to encourage Italian higher education and research institutions to continue cooperating and building partnerships with
Hungarian universities “despite the current difficult situation”.

Rodrigo Ballester, ministerial commissioner for the internationalisation of higher education and research, called the exclusion of the more than 20 Hungarian institutions from the EU programmes a “great injustice and disgrace”. He told MTI that Hungarian university students had been put “in a worse situation” than their Russian peers, who were not blocked from exchange programmes at European institutions.
Full report on The Budapest Times site