Calvinist university city to be built in Budapest’s heart

The new campus of the Károli Gáspár Calvinist University will be in the heart of Budapest’s downtown. You will be able to study law and psychology there.

According to our Hungarian partner site, Helló Magyar, the constructor of the new campus will be decided on a national plan competition. The location will be Ferencváros’s Markusovszky Square. The place is in Budapest’s downtown, in the 9th district, not far from Hungary’s National Museum, the illustrious Great Market Hall and the Corvin district metro station. Hungary’s world-known Semmelweis University is also in the neighbourhood.

In the plan contest, all Hungarian architects will be able to submit their concepts. Furthermore, the competition is open for EU members and state architects.

Regő Lánszki, the secretary of state of the Ministry of Construction and Transport, will chair the professional jury. His co-chairman will be Balázs Fürjes, the former leader of Budapest’s transport company BKK. Apart from professionals invited by the Hungarian Calvinist Church, other members of the body will be Tihamér Szalay, the VP of the Chamber of Hungarian Architects, Krisztina Baranyi, the mayor of Ferencváros, and Zoltán Erő, Budapest’s chief municipality architect.

The government supports the new university city

Results will be announced in May 2024.

The new campus will be a city development investment in the neighbourhood of Kálvin Square and Ráday Street, where the buildings of Hungary’s Calvinist University are. According to the church’s statement, the new buildings will strengthen the district’s role in Hungary’s higher education and contribute to a greener, more organised Markusovszky Square and Kinizsi Street. Here is the location:

The government decided to support building a new campus there in the summer of 2023.

The project aims to create a university campus in the heart of Budapest where students of different faculties can study closer to each other. The university is dynamically developing but its buildings are scattered in Budapest.

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