Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Robert Capa, the world renowned photographer of Hungarian descent, the National Bank of Hungary issued a gold memorial coin while the Hungarian Post Office came out with a commemorative stamp.
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Robert Capa, the world renowned photographer of Hungarian descent, the National Bank of Hungary issued a gold memorial coin while the Hungarian Post Office came out with a commemorative stamp.
2013 marks the 20th anniversary of ESSCA (École Supérieure des Sciences Commerciales d’Angers) Budapest. To celebrate "á la mode," the school hosted a conference on education and a mini gala event serving French delicacies.
“Our mission is to create and offer Hungarians innovative and unique programs in education and the arts that explore the evolving diversity and richness of French culture,” said the Director of the French Institute in Budapest, Francois Laquieze.
September 5th is the day of passing away of Mother Teresa, a day commemorated all over the world, a day in which humanity is called for action to help the poor of the poorest, something that Mother Teresa did all of her life.
As it enters the 2013/2014 school year, the American International School of Budapest (AISB) celebrates its 40-year anniversary that creates the opportunity for the School community to reminisce, reconnect and celebrate its achievements.
As of this August, movies and TV series on public service television channels in Hungary (m1, m2, Duna TV and Duna World) can be also watched in their original language as an alternative to the audio track with Hungarian dubbing.
Celebrated pianist, jazz musician and composer György Vukán died this Monday, just nine days before his 72nd birthday. Although, he was widely known as a musician, he also held a degree in dentistry (received in 1964), a profession he also practiced.
“Chess education was introduced in 2010 to the Happy Kids International Kindergarten, where my own kids went at that time,” Hungary’s Judit Polgár, the world’s top female chess player recalls in a recent interview to Diplomacy & Trade.
Located at the edge of the former Jewish Quarter in downtown Budapest, at Paulay Ede Street 1, the Israeli Cultural Institute (ICI) hosts and organizes concerts, exhibitions, film screenings and club activities for Jews and non-Jews.
Under the auspices of the Ministries of culture in Bulgaria, the institute introduces Bulgarian culture to Hungary’s international audience through exhibitions, a great number of concerts, film screenings, literary evenings and more.
An exhibition opened in the Hungarian National Gallery on June 27, presenting paintings and drawings by French and Hungarian impressionists and post-impressionists, including Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Pál Szinyei-Merse and József Rippl-Rónai.
In its WittyLeaks series, a recent issue of Diplomacy & Trade has carried a piece by the Swedish ambassador to Hungary, Karin Olofsdotter who describes her walk from her residence to work as she observes everyday life in Budapest.
CERN, the European organization for nuclear research, inaugurated its data center in Budapest, marking the completion of the facility hosting the extension for CERN computing resources. CERN and this facility are connected with 100 Gbit/s circuits.
The Hungarian shadow-dance group ‘Attraction’ won this year’s Britain's Got Talent show on ITV with 27% of the viewers’ votes. The Hungarians finished ahead of a teenage comedian from Yorkshire and a pair of singing brothers from Wales.
