"This Could Be the First Step in the Liquidation of the Institute Network" - neither the Academy nor the Research Institutes Agree with the Dismantling of HUN-REN

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The leadership of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has joined the lobbying process regarding the future of the former academic research institutes by issuing a statement. President Tamás Freund, Secretary General László Péter Kollár and Deputy Secretary General Anna Erdei indicate in a joint letter that “If the government (…) definitely wants to separate the humanities and social sciences research centers from HUN-REN, then the Academy – knowin…

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No such important English-language volume on the Moldavian Csángós has ever been published as the work of historian Antal Molnár on the Council of Kutnár in 1642. The book by the director of the Institute of History of the HUN-REN Humanities Research Center, published by the official Vatican publisher, expands the history of the Moldavian Csángós from a seemingly peripheral topic of church administration, and proves the community's close connect…

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"We accept that the government does not want to cooperate with us, but we do not accept that the existence and independence of the institutes will be endangered," says Ferenc Oberfrank, director of public bodies and strategy at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. A decision on the matter is expected on Friday.