Erasmus Student Network (ESN) is one of the biggest interdisciplinary student associations in Europe, founded in 1989 with the aim of supporting and developing student exchange.
non-profit international student organisation. Our mission is to represent international students, thus provide opportunities for cultural understanding and self-development under the principle of Students Helping Students.
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OPENING CEREMONY
Date: 2nd September 2013 10 a.m.
Location: The Calvinist Church of Fasor, 7th district, Városligeti fasor 7
In the framework of the Central European Exchange Program for University Students (CEEPUS), only the Faculty of Humanities entertains academic contacts with foreign universities. The Department of Dutch Studies is part of the CEEPUS network Language and Literature in a Central European context (coordinating institution: University of Vienna), with Dr. Tamás Balogh as Departmental CEEPUS Coordinator (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
The other research unit which participates in CEEPUS networks is the Department of General Humanities (Institute of Arts Studies and General Humanities). The departmental coordinator is Dr. Miklós Vassányi (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; tel. 30/831-9382). The Department of General Humanities is a member of the two following CEEPUS-networks: Study of Religions (coordinating institution: University of Szeged) and Inter-American Studies (coordinating institution: University of Graz).
Among the members of the Study of Religions network are Central-European universities like the University of Vienna, Masaryk University (Brno), Jagiellonian University (Kraków), Comenius University (Bratislava), the University of Szeged (Hungary) etc. The Inter-American Studies network comprises members as the University of Graz, the University of Zagreb, the University of Belgrade, the University of Ljubljana, and several more.
The CEEPUS networks offer an opportunity for instructors to teach for a week in foreign universities within the network, and to receive the visit of foreign instructors at their home universities. They also enable BA and MA students to spend entire semesters studying abroad while short study stays of one month and summer universities of one or two weeks are also possible. Application deadlines are in the middle of September and at the end of October; use the online registration and application forms at the dedicated website of the CEEPUS programme: https://www.ceepus.info.
If interested, please inquire at the above-indicated coordinators.
The University’s student residence is an independent institution providing services to the student population. It offers only a very limited number of rooms to the incoming students in the dormitory in Ráday Street. Every room is shared. There are places for two students in each room. The rooms are furnished and equipped with a little bathroom. The students have access to a kitchen and a recreational area with a TV-room. The rooms cost a gross of 30.000 HUF/month/person (cca. € 120,-) including sheets and blankets. Payments have to be made either by bank transfer or by cash.
The only way to apply for a room is to send the filled-in “Student Accomodation Form” to the International Office. (Address: H-Budapest 1091, Kálvin tér 9. Tel.: + 36 1 455 9060;
Fax: + 36 1 455 9062; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
Unfortunately, as mentioned above, due to the limited number of rooms available, the International Office of the University is unable to guarantee that every Erasmus student will get a room in the student residence.
Students will be sent written notification stating whether or not their application has been succesful; this note will be sent to them together with the Application Form for Studies.
If you could not get a place in the University dormitory it is suggested that you rent a flat or share a rented flat, which is what most international students do.
The International Office of the KRE will provide all possible assistance to students in finding appropriate lodging.
“Rent a flat” agencies in Budapest:
http://www.bbcsite.it/public/siti/altracasa/
Head of Programme: Dr. Semsey Viktória - (Institute of History)
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Organiser: Újlaky Judit - (Institute of Psychology)
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Pál Fodor: Hungarian Perceptions of the Ottoman Empire
István Pelyach: 15 March – a feast to commemorate the Hungarian national identity
László Honti: Hungarians and the Origin of Hungarian - A Connection Between Identity and Language
Ferenc Szűcs: The Role of the Hungarian Reformed Church in the Political, Social and Cultural Life of Hungary
Ferenc Szűcs: Presentation
Viktória Semsey: Anti-empire plans in Europe in the 19th Century
Judit Újlaky: History of Hungary in the 20th Century in the Mirror of Political Jokes
László Borhi: Hungary in the Soviet Empire 1945–1956
István Szabó: Churches in Hungary after 1989
János László and Éva Fülöp: History as context of inter-group emotions
Dr A.L. (Ad) Tervoort: Ideology and religion in the formation of the Dutch overseas empire
Béla MAKKAI: The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy – “The prison of folks”?
Carlos SANZ: Exile and Migration
Carlos SANZ: From Empire to Nation
Zalán Bognár: Trianon and 1956 in in the mirror of Hungarian national identity
Margit BLASTIK: Empires of Fiction - Two novels with Turkish topic
Raquel Sánchez: Cultural market and cultural policy in 19th century Spain
Raquel Sánchez: The role of Catholic Church in the building of Spanish Empire, 16-18th centuries
The legal predecessor of our University was the Reformed Theological Academy of Budapest, founded in 1855 and granted University status by the Hungarian Parliament in 1900. In 1993 the General Assembly of the Hungarian Reformed Church took the decision to establish a multifaculty University, and this decision was approved later on in the year on 21st September by the Parliament of the Republic of Hungary. Through the creation of Károli Gáspár University, the Hungarian Reformed Church has fulfilled the aims of its forefathers. Our University, in the spirit of the universitas scientiarium, aims to raise the status of not solely the Church, but also the nation, through its educational, teaching and academic work.
The commitment of Károli Gáspár University is to carry on the distinguished traditions of the Reformed Colleges of Sárospatak (founded in 1531), Pápa (founded in 1531), Debrecen (founded in 1538), Kolozsvár (founded in1622) and Nagyenyed (founded in 1632). In addition to the education of ministers of religion, for the purposes of academic research, training for the position of lecturer and for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, and the awarding of degrees, its aims and objectives are to provide BA and MA level basic education in several fields and branches of scholarship, and to be capable of carrying out academic research, in accordance with the aforementioned traditions and in the spirit of the Reformation.
The Hungarian Accreditation Committee, in Decision no.1 of June 6th 2000 regarding the standard of education and academic research carried out at Károli Gáspár University, granted our University accredited status as a result of the fact that our educational and research activities conform with the laws currently in force and are, additionally, in accordance with the Hungarian Accreditation Committee opinion and with their guidelines on educational standards.
Together, may we receive inspiration on the path to knowledge, morality or goodwill.
Every third level study involves a significant component, the participation in international education. Our University puts special emphasis on the opportunities for part-time studies as exchange programmes.
Numerous programmes of the European Union make active participation of students in mobility programmes possible. After the foundation of our University we first developed relationships with the Dutch region, but by now we have expanded our connections with the neighbouring countries, overseas and with religious and public universities all over the European Union.
We receive continuous financial and professional support from the Socrates and Lifelong Learning Programme/Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci or CEEPUS programmes of the European Commission. Our University’s departments maintain mainly student and teacher mobility relationships but we do consider further developments like joint educational modules, curriculum development and the evolvement of new study programmes. Our aim is to strengthen the European dimension by the complete recognition of credits acquired abroad, the development of the quality of education and foreign language teaching, the extension of projects based on international relationships, the comparison of different educational structures and policies and the use of commonly gained insights.
The Károli Gáspár University hosts many undergraduate and graduate students every year from most parts of the world, especially from the EU, the USA, and Japan. Students who choose our University will find themselves in a beautiful city with lively cultural activities, and will also have the chance to follow courses that will enable them with sound knowledge in the field of humanities.
Foreign students are welcome to select among a wide range of courses in each semester (most courses worth 4 ECTS and are taught in a 2 x 90 minute session every week).
To read more about the courses, please click here.
Application procedures
Application deadlines
Student registration, Mobility Online
Study Guide
The Erasmus Programme
The Programme is named after the humanist and theologian Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1465-1536) whose travels for work and study took in the era’s great centres of learning, including Paris, Leuven and Cambridge. Like the man, the Erasmus programme places great importance on mobility and furthering career prospects through learning. By leaving his fortune to the University of Basel, he became a pioneer of the mobility grants which now bear his name.
Studies show that a period spent abroad not only enriches students' lives in the academic field but also in the acquisition of intercultural skills and self-reliance. Staff exchanges have similar beneficial effects, both for the people participating and for the home and host institutions.
Around 90% of European universities take part in Erasmus and 2 million students have participated since it started in 1987. The annual budget is in excess of €440million, more than 4,000 higher education institutions in 31 countries participate, and even more are waiting to join.
Objectives and actions
Erasmus has become a driver in the modernisation of higher education in Europe and inspired the establishment of the Bologna Process. The general aim of the Programme is to create a European Higher Education Area and foster innovation throughout Europe.
Erasmus became part of the EU's Lifelong Learning Programme in 2007 and expanded to cover new areas such as student placements in enterprises (transferred from the Leonardo da Vinci programme), university staff training and teaching for enterprise staff. The Programme seeks to expand its mobility actions even further in coming years, with the target of 3 million Erasmus students by 2012.
General Information
Title of the programme:
Empires, Nations, Churches
-historical past, national identity, stereotypes, prejudices -
Characteristics: interdisciplinary
(history, psychology, music, film, literature)
Language: English
Date: 8-19 March, 2010. (on weekdays lectures between 9-12 am, discussion and cultural activity between 13.30 -17 pm)
Venue: Budapest, Gáspár Károli University of the Reformed Church (Central and Eastern European Institute for Mission Studies, III. Floor, 1091 Budapest, Kálvin tér 7.)
Credits: 5
Organisers:
Dr. Viktória Semsey (Institute of History) and Judit Ujlaky (Isnsitute of Psychology)
Participants: Hungary, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands
For the detailed programme, please check “programme”.
The course offers lodging (twin bed rooms, 20 minutes from the programme venue) and half-board for free, pays also the airplane tickets (in cash during the programme; for administrative reasons we kindly ask our students and lecturers to keep their boarding cards). The cultural activities (museums, excursion on Saturday) and the public trasport weekly tickets are also paid.
Our students will have an access to the Ervin Szabó Metropolitan Library.
Required activities before and during the course:
(a) composing 3 8-10 item lists on the stereotypes and prejudices on the other three countries until 10 January 2010.
(b) handing in 3 papers (25-25 pages each, in the mother language) on the 3 other countries’ history and culture from the epoch of empires to 1989 – based on a 3-4 item bibliography defined by the organising lecturer in each country). Előre. ) The papers should be handed in until 15 February, 2010.
(c) On the last day of the course there is a test to complete in groups.
At the end of the course students receive a certificate on participation.
Courses offered in foreign languages:
Károli University offers several English-language courses that have been designed for Erasmus students in such fields as History, Religious Studies, Philosophy, Psychology, English, German, Dutch and Japanese Studies. In addition, two Hungarian language courses (beginner and lower intermediate) are available free of charge for the incoming students during their Erasmus stay at our institution.
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