Hungarian Researchers Push Back against Transfer of Humanities Institutes
Eleonora Francica | 09 July 2025 | Science Business
The Hungarian academic and research community is protesting to the government over the Hungarian Research Network’s decision to transfer four of its humanities research centres to Eötvös Loránd University.
On June 21, one day after the research network’s governing board approved the move, a group of Hungarian research heads, including European Research Council grant recipients, sent an open letter to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, warning that the transfer would “cause historically significant harm to the entirety of Hungarian scientific life.”…