His Excellency Ragnar Almqvist, Ireland’s Ambassador to Hungary, and Marianna Szegedi Joó attaché visited Károli University on 3 April 2025, where they met the Rector, László Trócsányi, Róbert Szuchy, Vice-Rector for Education, Péter Furkó, Vice-Rector for Science and Innovation, Mózes Csoma, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Judit Nagy, Vice-Dean for International Affairs, Miklós Péti, Head of the Institute of English Studies and Dóra Pődör, Irish Studies scholar and Deputy Head of the Institute of English Studies.

The Doctoral School of Law and Political Sciences, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church is organising a National Doctoral Students’ Conference

Associate Professors of the Institute of Psychology, Continuing Education Center, Zsuzsanna Kövi and Gabriella Simon, visited Chiang Mai University (CMU) in Thailand from February 23 to March 4, 2025, as part of the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility (ICM) program.

On March 19, His Excellency Ilirian Kuka, Ambassador of the Republic of Albania visited our university for the first time, who was received by László Trócsányi Rector, Péter Balla Vice-rector for International Relations, Judit Nagy Vice-dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Gábor Szalai Head of International Relations Office at the Károlyi-Csekonics Palace.

On March 13, His Excellency Aybek Shakhavdinov, Ambassador of the Republic of Uzbekistan visited our university. During the introductory visit, the members of the delegation were welcomed by László Trócsányi Rector, Péter Balla Vice-rector for International Relations, Róbert Szuchy Vice-rector for Education, Andrea Domokos Vice-dean of the Faculty of Law, Judit Nagy Vice-dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Miklós Sárközy Associate Professor of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Gábor Szalai Head of International Relations Office at the Károlyi-Csekonics Palace.

The accelerating changes of the 21st century have brought countries closer together, resulting in an increasing number of cross-border legal relationships. It is no longer difficult to go abroad to purchase goods or services, or to study or work there. It is therefore increasingly important to understand different legal systems and to recognise their similarities and differences. The legal system is part of a country's cultural heritage and knowledge of it can help to build and strengthen mutual trust between countries.

The Department of European Law and Private International Law of the Károli Gáspár Reformed University has launched the Budapest Comparative Law Seminars series with the aim of providing an insight into the national legal systems and judicial practices of foreign countries. The invited speakers are all experts in a particular field of law, academics and researchers who are known and respected not only in their own countries but also abroad. Their presentations and question and answer sessions guarantee that the objectives of the seminar series will be achieved.

Religious freedom has been considered as the keystone in the arch of freedom since it allows us to ask for and seek responses to the most fundamental question of human existence. This freedom allows communities to develop inner strength and resilience. Together with the freedom of speech, they aim to shield citizens and communities against arbitrary state intervention. However, religious liberty is being challenged by new phenomena such as cosmopolitanism, globalization or even religious extremism in the 21^st century. Furthermore, even though there has been an explosion of human rights in terms of international treaties and apparatus; we have been experiencing an erosion of religious freedom around the world. It is mainly due to secular criticism and attacks especially in the West that aims to drive religion to the margins and out of the public discourse as well as to an individualistic construction of fundamental rights that ignores the collective nature freedoms. These and similar contemporary questions will be addressed by Gerard V. Bradley, Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame in the online event of the Barna Horváth Hungary Law and Liberty Circle.

This very special roundtable discussion, unique in Hungary, took place on the evening of 20 January 2025 as part of the Károli Open Talks with two internationally renowned experts, Eryn Andrews, NASA engineer, and Jim Christensen, space education specialist.