Hungary’s Pannonia Programme sends 3,000 students abroad, aims for 5,000 next semester

The number of Hungarian students given a chance to study at a top-notch university abroad through the government’s Pannonia Programme has reached 3,000, the culture and innovation minister said at a ceremony in Budapest’s Liszt Ferenc International Airport on Wednesday.
All of the 1,200 foreign universities that are partners to the student exchange programme recognise the credits earned by Hungarian students, Balázs Hankó said at the event, adding that every participant studying at a university in Germany or Spain receives a higher monthly stipend than what is offered under the Erasmus study scheme, he added.
“The Pannonia Programme is flexible; it offers grants for courses varying from a few weeks up to six months,” the minister said. He said the Pannonia Programme had allowed some 3,000 Hungarian students to take courses at the world’s leading universities in the previous semester, and the aim is to have that number reach 5,000 by the end of the next one.
Over the past six months, 62 Hungarian students studied in the United States, 31 in Japan, 45 in the UK, 25 in China, 21 in South Korea and 15 in Spain under the Hungarian programme, Hankó said. At the event, the minister and the heads of several Hungarian universities welcomed Anett Tamás as the grant programme’s 3,000th student, who was flying to Spain to start her studies in March.
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