The Italian Cultural Institute in Budapest, an office of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, organizes a wide range of events to inform the Hungarian audience on the most relevant aspects of contemporary Italian culture.

This Tuesday, deputy state secretary in the Hungarian Foreign Ministry Gergely Pröhle opened a permanent exhibition in the Hudec Memorial Hall in Shanghai dedicated to the works of Hungarian-born architect László Hudec.

Amiche dell’Italia, a Budapest based nonprofit organization organizes its annual Charity Gala Dinner on Monday, December 10. The venue is again Budapest's NOBU restaurant. Proceeds from this event will support the Budapest’s Heim Pál Children's Hospital.

The number of Hungarians studying abroad under the Erasmus student exchange project in the 2011/2012 academic year increased by about 4.5% compared to the previous year. the numbers have been steadily rising over the past years.

The Japan Foundation, Budapest encourages cultural collaboration between Hungary and Japan by organizing programs and making contributions to various festivals and exhibitions in the fields of film, dance, theater, literature and photography.

The Houston's International Quilt Festival in Texas features – among others – the exquisite artistry of the Hungarian quilts, a 16-piece exhibit of Hungarian blue-dyed fabrics and folk-art motifs in the first days of November in the George R. Brown Convention Center.

To celebrate linguistic and cultural diversity in Europe, the European Union National Institutes of Culture (EUNIC) will again organize its annual European Languages Cocktail Bar on September 26 in Akvárium, Budapest.

Organized on September 21 by Jam Dance Studio and Visual World Foundation, Swing and Soul Day offers a great range of dance related programs. Look after your body and think of dance as a source of energy! Oh, and ALL THAT SWING!

As part of the Jewish Summer Festival, Budapest’s Central (Szabó Ervin) Library hosted two spectacular exhibitions, on Israel’s finest children’s book illustrations, and on famous Jewish manuscripts and ceremonial objects.

The new season of the Budapest Festival Orchestra once again opens with the Budapest Mahler Festival. The festival program reflects the revamped strategy of the Orchestra/BFO, which focuses particularly on new, modern music and a young audience.

The Goethe Institut in Budapest opened its gates in March 1988, becoming the first such establishment in the EasternEuropean region. The aim of this cultural institute is to bring the multifaceted image of the Federal Republic of Germany to the world.

Green Pyramid: the flora, fauna and the culture of Indonesia - that is one of the main attractions in the Sóstó Zoo in Nyíregyháza that the June issue - dealing with the countries of the ASEAN region - of Diplomacy and Trade.

The long awaited sub-program of the Visegrad Artist Residency Program targeting writers, poets, journalists and translators was recently launched by the International Visegrad Fund, of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.

Rabindranath Tagore was an individual who became a legendary figure in his own lifetime. He substantially re-wrote and enriched the landscape of Indian art, poetry, culture and literature. He was the father of Bengali Renaissance.

King Harald V of Norway presented the 2012 Abel Prize to Hungarian-American mathematician Endre Szemerédi at a ceremony in Oslo this Tuesday. The Abel Prize is awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.