Starting in September, 47 talented young Hungarians will be able to start their studies at the world's best foreign universities with the Stipendium Peregrinum scholarship, Katalin Novák, the minister without portfolio responsible for families, announced at a press conference in Budapest on Monday.
Katalin Novák said that among the successful applicants there are 34 new scholarship recipients, and 13 of them studied abroad with this state support last year, and this year they successfully applied again.
Seventeen talented young Hungarians can study in the United Kingdom, four in the United States, seven in the Netherlands, two in Switzerland, and one each in Denmark, Belgium, Portugal and France. Most of them will continue their studies in scientific fields, natural sciences and technical fields, but for example there are also scholarship recipients in economic and artistic fields, he explained.
The minister also reported that 68 applicants participated in the scholarship selection camp in Balatonszárszón, from which a three-member committee then selected the winners.
As part of the Stipendium Peregrinum scholarship, the state covers not only the tuition fees, but also all other expenses of the young people, he reminded.
He said: the goal of the support is to enable talented young people to increase their knowledge in the best centers and then use it in Hungary. Accordingly, those who study abroad for one or two years with this support must study and work in Hungary within five years, those who study more than that, within ten years, for a period corresponding to the duration of the support.
Balázs Orbán, Parliamentary and Strategic State Secretary of the Prime Minister's Office, President of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) Foundation, spoke about the fact that this year MCC also joined the scholarship, so young Hungarians will be able to study in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, France and Portugal with the support of the institution. . Grant recipients will usually study in the fields of social sciences and economics.
He also announced that, in addition to financial support, MCC also provides scholarship recipients with a professional mentoring program, which will make their time abroad even more useful and help them find a job in Hungary after their studies.
Biochemist Veronika Ádám, a member of the judging committee of the Stipendium Peregrinum ("wandering student scholarship"), spoke about the fact that when selecting the winners, they took into account who, in addition to talent, has the ability to listen to others, to connect with their community and Hungary.
Gergely Böszörményi-Nagy, the founder of Brain Bar, said: it is exceptional that the government supports young people who want to study abroad. In addition, the scholarship program gives the participants the flexibility to do what they want, he added.
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