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Partner institutions - Hungary
Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Budapest, coordinating institution
Founded in 1635, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) is the largest and oldest university in Hungary with more than 35 000 students, divided into 8 faculties. The university maintains close ties with national research institutions such as the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and hosts dozens of academic research groups that contribute to the activities of the different faculties (research and teaching). The university has also established a strong international network by signing contracts of bilateral cooperation with more than 100 universities all over the world. ELTE takes active part in the European networks. In the framework of the Erasmus exchange program, every year the university hosts more than 100 students from all over Europe and sends more than 200 Hungarian students abroad. For this reason, the university is the biggest Erasmus exchange program institution in Hungary. Every year the number of participating professors reaches 100-110, and the university hosts 70-80 foreigner professors per year. The Faculty of Humanities is responsible for more than half of the Erasmus exchange students. In March 2010, the university was awarded the title “University of Excellence”, which enables it to benefit from a significant financial support of the Hungarian State. With this support, the university aims to integrate excellent researches into education on the Master’s and doctoral levels. The excellence initiative of the Faculty of Humanities for the period 2010-2012 aims at the internationalization of its educational programs and their integration into international networks. In this initiative, the Atelier – Department of European Social Sciences and Historiography serves as a model; the head of Department is responsible for the operation of the initiative on the Faculty level.
In Budapest, the TEMA European Master Course is run by the Atelier – Department of European Social Sciences and Historiography, which operates within the Institution of History of the Faculty of Humanities. This department was founded in 1989 with the aim of helping student and faculty exchange between France and Hungary, following the fall of the Berlin Wall. The department has always placed urban researches at the center of its scientific projects as a result of the main interests of its founders, Jacques Revel and György Granasztói. Since its creation, Atelier has sent more than 60 students to study in Paris, and organized more than 100 international seminars and symposiums. In 1997, Atelier launched its doctoral program. Today Atelier simultaneously functions as a department and a research center that benefits from the financial aid of the Eötvös Loránd University, the French Institute of Budapest, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and the Hungarian Ministry for Education and Culture. This interdisciplinary research center aims to study issues related to the civilization, nation, and city.
Atelier was the coordinating institution of the TEMA Socrates Erasmus curriculum development project (from October 2005 until September 2008), supported by the European Commission. This project was aimed at developing and accrediting the TEMA European Master Course’s curriculum at the partner universities: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France, University of Catania, Italy, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, University “Sveti Kliment Ohridski” in Sofia, Bulgaria, and University Babeş-Bolyai of Cluj, Romania. The last two universities do not participate as partner institutions in the consortium of the TEMA Erasmus Mundus Master Course.
Atelier has signed Erasmus bilateral agreements with the following universities : EHESS in Paris and University Pierre Mendès-France Grenoble II (France), University of Catania (Italy), Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic), University of Salamanca (Spain), University of Freiburg (Germany), University of Aarhus (Denmark), Catholic Univerity of Lisbon (Portugal), Charles III. University of Madrid (Spain) and University Babeş-Bolyai of Cluj (Romania).
Atelier participates in several national and international initiatives, as for example:
- “The spatial frameworks of the history of identity: civilization, nation, region, city”, research financed by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. During a three-year period, this fundamental research, studying the relation between society and space through the question of identity, is led by a consortium composed by researchers affiliated to 4 institutions and coordinated by Atelier. The members of the research group analyze elements that compose modern identity from the perspective of appropriation of space on various levels from the 18th to the 20th century.
- “New approaches and new sources for the process of the Hungarian nation-building in the 19th century”, research financed by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund. During a three-year period, this research project, led by Professor György Granasztói, aims to highlight and analyze the impact of national construction on the new research fields of economic history, church history, history of royal courts, history of travel, history of the school manuals, and history of popular theater. Cast in a different light, namely in the context of the unification of Europe, outside of Hungary it has been shown that these fields play a significant role. However, in Hungary they have not yet been reexamined through the lens of their inherent “national” content.
- Urban Observatory of Budapest
Atelier is an integral part of this brand new organization, created at the initiative of Collegium Budapest, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, and the French Institute of Budapest in order to institutionalize the scientific analysis of the urban processes of modern European cities. Symposiums are organized every year by the discussion groups of Collegium Budapest (European center of excellence with great reputation) on urban subjects in order to improve the dialogue between the representatives of the different disciplines involved.
Atelier published several works in the field of history and interdisciplinary researches on urban and territorial development.
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