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The Mathias Corvinus Collegium is establishing a new center in Brussels
Budapest – This year, at MCC, the academic year began with a record number of almost 6,000 students at 24 training locations.
The Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) is establishing a new center in Brussels, the institution wrote in a statement sent to MTI.
Balázs Orbán, chairman of the board of trustees of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium Foundation, was quoted in reporting on the opening of the MCC, who said at the event: Hungary has become a knowledge superpower, and the MCC plays a major role.
He added: MCC’s undisclosed goal is to nurture Hungarian talents.
Principal Zoltán Szalai said about the opening of the Brussels center in October: in addition to hosting conferences and book presentations, in the future their student director will also be able to regularly go on study trips. This can support young people in getting to know European political and economic processes better, he noted.
In explaining the programs for the coming period, the Director General called the MCC Budapest Summit international conference to be held at the end of September, at which the economic consequences of the Russian-Ukrainian war will be in the center, of outstanding importance.
According to the announcement, as part of the Visiting Fellowship Program, fifteen foreign specialists will strengthen the teaching staff of MCC. Among them, at the opening of the academic year, Zoltán Ács, an American researcher of Hungarian origin, emphasized the importance of national identity, Peter Boghossian, an American philosopher, and Gábor Csepregi, a Canadian philosopher of Hungarian origin and a philosophical anthropologist, encouraged the students to think critically, while John Laughland, an alumnus of the University of Oxford, spoke about political and war difficulties.
This year, at MCC, the academic year began with a record number of almost 6,000 students at 24 training locations, they said.
The Young Talent program for elementary school students starts with about 1,500 students in twenty-three settlements in the Carpathian Basin, 3,700 students in the Middle School program in fifteen centers, and 600 students in seven centers in the University program from September. a gift of Roma talent, as well as public life programs are also launched – the announcement states.