Between February 24 and October 1, 2023, we will commemorate the 30^th anniversary of our institution with conferences in Hungarian and foreign languages, a jubilee brochure, and numerous programmes. During the jubilee commemorative year, we remember not only the past three decades, but also the period before that, the roots of Reformed higher education, the spirit and sense of mission that inspired the institution.

On 27 January 2023 the Doctoral School of Law and Political Sciences of Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary held a Doctoral Students' Meeting organized by Prof. Dr. Éva Jakab, Professor and Head of the Doctoral School. The meeting was held in the Károlyi-Csekonics Palace. The event began with a plenary presentation by Dr. Gergely Rideg titled: The legal framework, opportunities and dead ends of the use of artificial intelligence for business purposes. Afterwards, doctoral students had the opportunity to present their latest research results. 36 PhD students from the Károli Gáspár University’ Doctoral School attended the conference.

Prof. Dr. László Trócsányi, Rector of the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary was inaugurated on 19 February at 3 p.m. as part of a solemn worship service. The ceremony took place in the church of the Budapest-Budahegyvidék Reformed Parish.

The "Values Building Toolkit in Social Work Education" project supported by the Visedgrad Fund has come to an end at Fall 2021. The group who worked together consisted of Hungarian (including KRE's Faculty of Social Studies and Health Sciences' Institute of Social Work and Deaconry), Czech, Slovak and Polish universities that were coordinated by University of Ostrava. During the fruitful cooperation, participants examined the transfer of values between social professions (e.g.: social work, social pedagogy, deaconry/Christian social work) at universities of social work and social pedagogy in the Visegrad countries.

Two online conferences have been organized recently There were two online conferences in the past few weeks organized by two Institutes of Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary. Let’s take look, what were these conferences about!

Respected Members of the University Community,

The Orientation Week for the 2021/22 Spring semester took place on 7-11 February. During these days, new international students took part in a variety of activities organized by the International Office and the Student’s Union. Thanks to the fruitful cooperation of all parties, newcomers could feel at ease and home immediately.

The latest Winter 2022 issue of the University’s official student journal, the Károli Magazine is now available! You can find them in the faculties’ community places, and also can be reached online by clicking on the picture:

Prof. Dr. László Trócsányi received his official appointment from President János Áder at the Sándor Palace on 31st January 2022. 

Upon the proposal and request of the Synod of the Reformed Church in Hungary, the Senate of Károli Gáspár University at its session on 22 February 2021 endorsed unanimously that vice rector for educational affairs Dr Ágnes Czine shall continue her service as acting rector.