It is clear that if families and human relationships are strong and harmonious, then our wider community, the Hungarian nation, will also become more successful and, not least, happier. With our just announced tender, we also want to achieve that the success and happiness of others can be known as a kind of recipe - Tünde Főrész, president of the Mária Kopp Institute, told Vasárnap.

- Mária Kopp passed away ten years ago, and in memory of this, KINCS launched a unique tender.

– Yes, this year we are commemorating the namesake of our institute, Mária Kopp , doctor and professor of psychiatry. He would have turned 80 years old on January 14 this year, and at the conference organized for this occasion, we announced that we were launching a tender Our Common Treasures – Family, Community, Mental Health . We are waiting for works in two categories until April 3: on the one hand, we expect works of fiction, on the other hand, studies that are in some way related to the work of Mária Kopp, the topics she researches, such as mental health, the search for happiness, or the spiritual state of Hungarians.

- Whose applications are expected?

- Basically, people over 18 can apply. We gladly accept any work for the fiction competition, from poetry to prose to short stories. It is a great honor for us to have such great members of the jury as Erzsébet Schäffer and Tamás Krúdy . The scientific papers by György Purebl, director of SE's Institute of Behavioral Sciences, and Ágnes Engler , scientific vice president of KINCS. The president of the jury is Petra Aczél , professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest and head of the KINCS College of Family Studies.

 – In her research in the 1990s, Mária Kopp pointed out that the relations between Hungarian communities are often very weak. How can the application help with this?

– One of the goals of the tender that we are announcing is precisely that we can read positive, affirming examples to be followed about the joys experienced in communities and the sustaining power of communities. I am confident that we will receive entries that will provide thought-provoking, good ideas and practices on how to strengthen social relationships.

– It is clear that if families and human relationships are strong and harmonious, then our wider community, the Hungarian nation, will become more successful and, last but not least, happier.

The relationships experienced in well-functioning communities are real treasures, so the rise and development of communities must be supported. This is also the essence of the family-friendly policy, since its goal is to strengthen our smallest community, the family. In the past twelve years, families have become stronger in Hungary, and the results of this are already visible. Families not only developed and prospered in a material sense, but also became more resilient in terms of physical and mental health. The satisfaction and happiness level of family members is higher than the average and shows better values ​​than ten years ago.

Source: Sunday

Author: Gábor Tóth

Photo: Tibor Vermes/KMI