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3/2/22, 8:49 AM
Budapest Fellowship Program, Visiting Fellowship Program

Discover Hungary - Székesfehérvár

Székesfehérvár
MCC visiting fellows and Budapest Fellows visited Székesfehérvár as part of the Discover Hungary series in February.
2/25/22, 3:48 PM
Conferences, MCC Budapest Summit

The values we teach our children – MCC Budapest Summit 2022 a huge success

Budapest
The MCC Budapest Summit 2022, a major international conference organized by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) ended with great success. The conference was seeking to shed light on the values we teach our children. On the second day of the event - 17 February 2022 - exciting discussions and book presentations involved more than 30 speakers from Hungary and abroad and an audience of nearly 750 people. MCC, as a talent development institution aims to become the largest and most dynamic think tank in Hungary - and even in Central Europe.
2/25/22, 3:45 PM
Conferences, MCC Budapest Summit

The first day of the Budapest Summit 2022 was a massive success

Budapest
The first day of the MCC Budapest Summit 2022, the largest international conference organized by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), was a huge success. More than 30 speakers and over 500 visitors attended the large-scale event on 16 February 2022. As a talent development institution, MCC aims to become the major and most dynamic think tank in Hungary - and even in Central Europe.
2/18/22, 10:00 AM
Budapest Lectures, Conferences, Publishing

MCC Budapest Summit 2022 - A Huge Hit

Budapest
The MCC Budapest Summit 2022, the largest international professional event organized by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), was a massive success. The two-day conference focused on the topic “On the Values We Teach Our Children.” This year MCC hosted more than 30 guest speakers who shared their insights in roundtable discussions. More than 750 people attended the conference to listen to the internationally renowned experts from around the world.
2/9/22, 9:44 AM
Lunch Talks

How to Have Impossible Conversations?

Budapest
Dr. Peter Boghossian, participant of the MCC Visiting Fellowship Program was the guest of this year’s third MCC Lunch Talks event. He gave a presentation on methods of conversation and debate between people of different views.
1/25/22, 8:31 AM
Budapest Fellowship Program, Visiting Fellowship Program

To Discover Esztergom

Esztergom
Budapest Fellows and MCC visiting fellows spent a meaningful day at the formal coronation city Esztergom this week to get acquainted with one of the most important historical cities in Hungary.
1/20/22, 12:03 PM
Ambassador Talks

Getting to know each other and engaging in discussion on sensitive issues is crucial

Budapest
Our Ambassador Talks series continues in 2022, with H. E. Pascal Andréani, Ambassador of the French Republic to Hungary, as our guest at the season opening event.
12/15/21, 8:33 AM
Ambassador Talks

Opening to our neighbors

Budapest
12/10/21, 1:03 PM
MCC Feszt

Next summer, MCC will "give a voice to talent" again

This year's three-day MCC Feszt was a huge success, so Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) will organize its one-of-a-kind talent festival again next year, in the historic but also vibrant Esztergom between 28-30 July 2022.
12/9/21, 8:31 AM
Ambassador Talks

Miklós Halmai, Ambassador of Hungary to Portugal paid a visit to MCC

Budapest
The guest of our Ambassador Talks event was Miklós Halmai, Ambassador of Hungary to Portugal.
11/22/21, 3:10 PM
Publishing

Environmentalism is the new religion - The Hungarian translation of Michael Shellenberger's bestseller presented at the MCC

The recently published Hungarian translation of Michael Shellenberger's bestseller Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All was presented in the framework of an exclusive discussion organized by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) and the Climate Policy Institute. Michael Shellenberger is an environmental activist, one of the most influential, multiple award-winning environmental writers in the United States who is also an expert for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Shellenberger's book has been translated into sixteen languages so far. The Hungarian edition was now published in collaboration with Gingko Kiadó and MCC Press and launched on 15 November.
11/18/21, 8:26 AM
German-Hungarian Institute for European Cooperation

The German edition of the book "A Thousand Years in the Middle of Europe—The Character of the Hungarian State" was presented for the first time in Germany

The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Mathias Corvinus Collegium jointly organized the first presentation of the German edition of the book "A Thousand Years in the Middle of Europe—The Character of the Hungarian State" at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences on 16 November 2021 in Berlin. In addition to the editors of the volume, the presentation and the subsequent panel discussion was also attended by Parliamentary State Secretary Steffen Bilger MP.
11/15/21, 2:53 PM
Conferences

MCC media conference a huge success - record attendance and exciting debates even at an international scale

Budapest
The one-of-a-kind international media conference of Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) was a huge success. On the second day of the conference, nearly 20 experts gave presentations or took part in professional discussions in front of an audience of hundreds of interested people.
11/15/21, 9:01 AM
Conferences

Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age - MCC media conference aroused great interest

With the emergence of parliamentary democracies, the role of the press has fundamentally changed and the public sphere has become democratized. The advent of the internet has triggered another revolutionary change, according to the speakers on the first day of the two-day international media conference organized by Mathias Corvinus Collegium. At the event, which attracted hundreds of participants and a great deal of media interest, well-known Hungarian and international journalists, editors and publishing executives shared their thoughts on the role of social media, the challenges facing the journalism profession and the different effects of digitalization.
10/29/21, 5:20 PM
Budapest Lectures

Tradition and innovation

We have to save our traditions and harmonise the traditional and modern approach in architecture - was said on the latest stage of the series of events Budapest Lectures organised by MCC where Justin Shubow American architecture critic and Stephen Sholl the visiting fellow of MCC had a conversation.
10/27/21, 9:52 AM
School of Law, Center for Public Law

One Court, One Judge, One State, One Agent - A Look Behind the Scenes at the ECtHR

A unique roundtable discussion was organized on 25 October 2021 but the Public Law Center operating next ot the MCC Law School. Hungary's judge at the Strasbourg-seated European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Prof. Dr. Péter Paczolay, and Hungary's state agent (representing the Government), dr. Zoltán Tallódi, a high-ranking official from the Ministry of Justice talked with Dr. Márton Sulyok, the head of the Public Law Center regarding questions on the operation and processes of the ECtHR, and in terms of the day-to-day management tasks regarding concrete cases.
10/26/21, 9:44 AM
School of Economics

Searching for Secrets of the Startup Ecosystems – Study Tour of Students of the MCC School of Economics in Warsaw (October 20-23, 2021)

Why does Warsaw have the most dynamic startup ecosystem of the Visegrád Four capitals today? As is so often the case, the success is due to several factors, which is why the students of the MCC School of Economics had a rather dense program in the Polish capital.
10/22/21, 2:42 PM
Collegium Content

Scruton’s Legacy – MCC Students in Oxford

Students from Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) will attend a series of lectures organized in Oxford in memory of Roger Scruton, who died last January. The event includes reflections from renowned experts such as the writer and historian Tom Holland or the former British supreme court justice Jonathan Sumption.
10/22/21, 11:40 AM
Budapest Lectures

Budapest Lectures: Politics and Legislation

In many countries today, ideological restrictions on the exercise of freedom of speech go beyond the principles of responsibility and community – said Christiaan Alting von Geusau, Dutch law professor in his lecture on the relationship between politics and legislation, held in the framework of the latest event of the Budapest Lectures series at Mathias Corvinus Collegium.
10/20/21, 11:43 AM
School of Law, Center for Public Law

The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights as a New Chapter in European constitutional scrutiny?

On 18 October 2021, Associate Professor and Vice-Dean Ondrej Hamulak of the Faculty of Law at the Palacky University in Olomouc was a guest of our Law School at the invitation of the head of our Public Law Center, Márton Sulyok.
10/18/21, 2:15 PM
Transylvanian School of Politics

The Transylvanian School of Politics launched its academic year

The first training weekend marked the start of the fifth academic year of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) Transylvanian School of Politics. The program, launched in 2017 in cooperation with the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ) and the Hungarian Youth Council of Romania (MIÉRT), aims to enable young Hungarians from Transylvania to effectively represent the values and interests of Hungarian communities in local public affairs.
10/15/21, 12:06 PM
Collegium Content

Philosopher Peter Boghossian to be guest lecturer at MCC from February, 2022

Peter Boghossian, American philosopher and author of several internationally acclaimed publications and best-selling books, is to be among the guest lecturers at Mathias Corvinus Collegium.
10/13/21, 11:23 AM
Budapest Lectures, Migration Research Institute

Diego Muro: weak states may be the cause of the emergence of terrorism - Budapest Lectures at MCC

How can the world fight terrorism? What are the prospects for violent modern terrorism? This was the theme of the latest event of the Budapest Lectures series entitled “In the Shadow of Modern Terrorism - From Global Threat to Immediate Exposure” which featured presentations by Diego Muro, associate professor at the University of St Andrews, Jeffrey Kaplan, Danube Institute distinguished visiting fellow and Viktor Marsai, research director at the Migration Research Institute.
10/12/21, 12:15 PM
Center for Public Law

Legal and diplomatic career and challenges on the border of the international community and the two Europes - Lecture by the former president of the Kosovo Constitutional Court in Szeged

On 5 October 2021, we had the pleasure to host in our Szeged MCC Center Mrs. Arta Rama-Hajrizi, the former president of the Kosovo Constitutional Court, who arrived to us accompanied by Márton Sulyok, the head of the Public Law Center of MCC Budapest.
10/11/21, 1:08 PM
Cluj-Napoca Program

MCC launched the academic year in Târgu Mureș in the spirit of responsible talent development

The Cluj-Napoca University Program of Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) recently held the opening ceremony of the academic year at the Palace of Culture in Târgu Mures.
10/6/21, 1:18 PM
Budapest Lectures, Collegium Content

The role and importance of tradition - Sohrab Ahmari was the guest of the Budapest Lectures

"Freedom does not mean that you can do whatever you want, but that you do what is really necessary", Sohrab Ahmari stressed.
10/5/21, 12:06 PM
Center for Public Law

A country that has been shaped by human rights - A lecture by the former President of the Kosovo Constitutional Court

On 4 October 2021, Mrs. Arta Rama-Hajrizi, the former president of the Kosovo Constitutional Court (in office until summer 2021) has visited MCC at the invitation of Márton Sulyok, Head of Public Law Center of the MCC Law School, to talk to students about "Kosovo, the ECHR and Human Rights".
9/27/21, 12:17 PM
German-Hungarian Institute for European Cooperation

German election evening at MCC

Hungarian and German experts analyzed the preliminary results of the federal parliamentary elections in Germany at an event at Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) on Sunday. Whatever coalition is formed to govern, "the period of ossification that Germans have experienced under Angela Merkel over the past 16 years will come to an end", they said.
9/24/21, 12:25 PM
Budapest Lectures

Marion Maréchal addressed at MCC the current the state of education in France

Education in France is currently characterized by a significant decline in standards and expectations - this was one of the topics addressed by Marion Maréchal, former Member of the French National Assembly, in her lecture held at Mathias Corvinus Collegium, in Tas vezér Street, in the framework of the Budapest Lectures series. At the event, organized jointly by MCC and the Danube Institute, the director of the Institut des sciences sociales, économiques et politiques (ISSEP) in Lyon also spoke about the dangers of the growing far-left ideology.
9/21/21, 10:40 AM
Collegium Content

MCC supports the development of more than 3,700 young talents in the new academic year

The interest in Mathias Corvinus Collegium's (MCC) unique training programs is growing: the talent development center starts the new academic year with more than 3,700 students. The expansion of the Foundation has been significant also in geographical terms. MCC programs are now available in 23 cities across the Carpathian Basin. In the academic year 2021/2022, several new teachers and lecturers from home and abroad will join MCC to help students who are willing to act for their future and as well as the nation.
9/16/21, 10:58 AM
German-Hungarian Institute for European Cooperation

German experts help MCC students with their professional development

Four guest lecturers from Germany came to the Hungarian-German Institute of Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) in September. As participants of the MCC Visiting Fellowship Program (VFP), the professors carry out teaching activities and do research work and publications at the now 25-year-old talent development institution.
9/9/21, 10:49 AM
Collegium Content

"We square the talent" - opening ceremony at Mathias Corvinus Collegium

Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) starts the new academic year with an opening ceremony. In 2021/2021, more than 3,500 young people will pursue their studies in the Foundation's unique training programs. The event included an address by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and a lecture by the British historian Niall Ferguson.
8/26/21, 12:09 PM
Collegium Content

The historic building of the old town hall in Zalaegerszeg will be restored

From autumn, the unique training programs of Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) - the Young Talent Programme (FIT) and the Secondary School Program (KP) - will be available also in Zalaegerszeg. After renovations, the old town hall building will be the home of the MCC training center in Zalaegeszeg.
8/13/21, 11:39 AM
Collegium Content

The European Union at crossroads

The European Commission's infringement procedure against Hungary about the child protection law is not a legal but a political issue, Gergely Gulyás stressed at the discussion held on the MOL Main Stage of MCC Feszt. The Minister of the Prime Minister's Office discussed with András Schiffer, lawyer and former co-chair of LMP, where the European Union is heading.
8/13/21, 11:37 AM
Collegium Content

Dennis Prager on the MOL Main Stage at MCC Feszt

At MCC Feszt, Dennis Prager, one of the most influential political commentators in the United States, held a talk entitled "Media and free speech".
8/13/21, 11:34 AM
Collegium Content

Tucker Carlson's talk at MCC Feszt was a huge success

The space in front of the MOL Main Stage at Széchenyi Square was packed with people who came to listen to the well-known broadcaster Tucker Carlson’s talk entitled "The World According to Tucker Carlson".
8/13/21, 11:24 AM
Collegium Content

Abishur Prakash on stage at MCC Feszt

Geopolitical futurist Abishur Prakash came to Hungary at the invitation of Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC).
8/8/21, 2:42 PM
Collegium Content

We gave voice to talent! - MCC Fest was a great success

More than twelve thousand visitors attended the first Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) festival in three days.