Request submitted to register foundation supporting the Chinese Fudan University
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The innovation and technology ministry (ITM) on Friday submitted a request to authorities to register a public interest foundation to manage the assets of Fudan University, a Chinese university slated to set up a campus in Budapest.
The foundation’s board of trustees, headed by Innovation and Technology Minister László Palkovics, will prepare impact studies and plans before a referendum on the construction of the university, the ministry said.
The government is working to
bring a university ranking 31st worldwide to Budapest,
to strengthen the competitiveness of Hungarian higher education and to enable Hungarian and central European students to obtain degrees at an elite university in Budapest, the statement said. Fudan University may help Budapest to become an international knowledge hub, it said.
The government will brief parliament on the preparation and expected costs of Fudan Hungary University by the end of next year, the statement said.
Meanwhile, Gergely Karácsony, one of the PM candidates of the opposition and mayor of Budapest, said that
The Chinese Fudan University is wrong for Hungary.
You want to strengthen the competitiveness of Hungarian higher education? Then use the funds to help existing universities. Why should they be second best. Obtain degrees at an elite university? What on earth does that say about Hungarian higher education. Makes them sound completely worthless. As the majority of people are saying, China is NOT to be trusted. What’s the real motive for this Fudan complex, that’s what everyone should be asking. The truth is it won’t be Hungarians attending this university, the Chinese will select who they want.