The Erasmus+ programs can be implemented without disruption this year as well, the Ministry of Culture and Innovation (KIM) told MTI on Monday. They wrote that the December decision of the European Commission on public interest trust foundations performing public tasks does not affect the currently running exchange programs.
The government is continuously negotiating until the March deadline on the further uninterrupted provision of funds for higher education, they added.
The European Commission's decision at the end of last year does not affect the currently running higher education student and teacher exchange programs that universities are applying for this year. The financial framework for this is ensured, so the students cannot suffer any disadvantages, they emphasized.
"Hungary has fulfilled all its commitments, so it does not accept the European Commission's decision, which includes the discriminatory exclusion of public interest trust foundations performing public tasks and the universities they maintain from direct EU tenders. This will be clarified, similarly to other EU sources, by March 16, 2023," the announcement reads.
The background to this is that, according to newspaper information, Hungarian educational institutions that operate in the form of public interest trust foundations or that are maintained by such foundations cannot receive new grants from the Erasmus+ cooperation and educational exchange program financed by the European Union.
