As we already reported , last week the awarding of the Spiritual Patriot Award, founded by CÖF-CÖKA, took place. Among the recipients of the award is Dr. Ildikó Orosz, the II. Ferenc Rákóczi, president of the Subcarpathian Hungarian College, also received the recognition, who is an active member of the Subcarpathian social life, doing a lot for the preservation of Hungarianness through education.
Dr. Ildikó Orosz's eulogy Ferenc Péter Szilágyi , ministerial commissioner responsible for coordinating national political tasks, which can be read below:
Dr. Ildikó Orosz was born in Nagydobrony, where he got to know the teaching profession in his parents' house. He studied at the local high school until 1976, then he was admitted to the mathematics department of the state university in Ungvár. Already during his studies, he got involved in Transcarpathian education, as he worked as a daycare educator, later as an elementary school teacher, and finally as a mathematics teacher in his native village.
He received his teaching diploma in 1983 and continued teaching at the secondary school in Nagydobrony. Two years later, he already worked as the deputy director responsible for education in the institution, and from 1990 as the elected director of the school.
In 1991, on his initiative, the professional organization of teachers working in Hungarian-language schools, the Subcarpathian Hungarian Teachers' Association, was founded, which is still headed by Dr. Ildikó Orosz is its president. This organization performs the educational expert tasks of the Subcarpathian Hungarian Cultural Association, and as a social organization it is also one of the founders of the only independent Hungarian-language higher education institution in Ukraine, the Transcarpathian Hungarian Teacher Training College, today known as II. Ferenc Rákóczi for the Transcarpathian Hungarian College.
Dr. Ildikó Orosz began his doctoral studies in Debrecen in 1995. He defended his dissertation in 2001, obtaining his scientific degree. This was naturalized in 2013 after a public defense at Ternopil National University, receiving the degree of Candidate of Sciences in Ukraine. The central topic of his scientific activity is the problems of learning and education of national minorities in Ukraine. In connection with this, his publications appeared and are being published in both Hungarian and foreign languages.
After starting his doctoral studies, dr. Since 1996, Ildikó Orosz has been a teacher and director of the college at the same time. As president from 2000, as rector between 2015 and 2020, and then again as president, he assumed and continues to play a role in the management of the college. Under his leadership, the institution received licenses entitling it to educational activities, college courses were successfully accredited, while the institution underwent significant infrastructural development.
It is also worth emphasizing that Dr. Ildikó Orosz is an active participant in Transcarpathian social life. He has been a representative of the Subcarpathian County Council for several cycles, and is currently the chairman of the Subcarpathian County Council's education, scientific, church affairs, and national minority committees. In addition, he is a member of numerous advisory boards and local organizations dealing with education and scientific issues. Member of the public body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, member of the presidency of the Transcarpathian Hungarian Academic Council.
The NGO Pro Cultura Subcarpathica was founded on the initiative of Dr. Ildikó Orosz, with the aim of further building, strengthening and developing the Subcarpathian Hungarian community through culture. He also actively participated in the founding of the P. Frangepán Katalin high school education network and the Tulipán Tanoda Hungarian folk art school.
The work of Dr. Ildikó Orosz has been rewarded with several important recognitions and prizes in the past decades. Among them are recognitions from the president of the Hungarian Republic, Hungarian government, several Ukrainian state and county recognitions, as well as additional awards from professional organizations in Hungary and abroad. These are all clearly Dr. They bear witness to Ildikó Orosz's purpose in life. Namely, to maintain and develop the Transcarpathian Hungarian educational institution network and Hungarian-language higher education.
Thanks to Dr. Ildikó Orosz's tireless work of several decades, tens of thousands of Hungarian students in Transcarpathia can be grateful that they can benefit from quality mother-tongue public education, vocational education and higher education. The fruit of this uncompromising, not infrequently combative work is a young intellectual who is the key to the survival of the Hungarian part of the Transcarpathian nation.
Today's award also embellishes this aspiration. Dr. Ildikó Orosz's professional, human and public role, and his faithful standing in this role, are exemplary for today and all future generations.
According to the creed of the national policy, there are two basic pillars for the survival of the separated parts of the nation. One is the strong representation of Hungarian political interests, and the other is mother tongue education. In the case of Transcarpathia, we can say without exaggeration that the main pillar of education is today called: dr. Russian Ildiko. He is the kind of leader of Transcarpathian Hungarians who has remained physically and spiritually close to his people in this difficult time, knows them personally and cares about them. His name is such a concept in Transcarpathia, and even in the light of his awards and life journey for all Hungarians, around which quality, struggle, plan and its implementation are combined. We thank Ildikó for his self-sacrificing work and congratulate him on the award he just received.
(From right to left in the cover image: Dr. Ildikó Orosz, László Csimadia, president of CÖF-CÖKA, and ministerial commissioner Ferenc Péter Szilágyi, who gave the eulogy)
