Thousands of university students will not be able to move into their dorms in September!

The government asked for hundreds of rooms for the participants of the International Eucharistic Congress held between September 5-12.

The Pope is finally coming to Hungary this August. It was not an easy ride for him to decide whether to participate in the Congress or not. DNH wrote in summer that, according to some sources, the head of the Catholic Church was considering skipping the event because of a clash of standpoints between him and Hungary. Luckily, he changed his mind and will spend a day in the organising country.

Pope Francis to meet PM Orbán for half an hour in the Museum of Fine Arts 

The Congress itself, however, is causing some outcry among university students. In the past couple of days,

thousands of university students had to face the bad news: they will not be able to move into their dorms at the beginning of the semester. The rooms are either paid for or obtained as a social allowance.

The reason is the Congress and the government’s demand for the dormitory rooms to accommodate up to 5000 participants arriving at the event. As the students say, they did not receive any preliminary information. Student councils noted that several universities decided without involving student associations.

“Neither students with a dorm room nor the student council or any student association representing the students’ rights were notified before making the decision”, received telex.hu the answer from readers.

“Only freshmen and those who stayed in the dorms of Schönherz and Kármán (of BME) during this summer can move in now. There was no preliminary discussion about it. The decision was made out of the blue. It is outrageous.”

On Tuesday, the National Conference of Student Councils (HÖOK) made public that the governments’ request for 5000 beds arrived last week. Their announcement was somewhat late, as both BME and ELTE wrote on Monday that they would provide room for the event’s guests. 

ELTE will provide 2200 places at most, probably in the dorms Ajtósi Dürer sor, Damjanich utca, and the Köőrösi Csoma Sándor building.
BME made a promise for 2000 places in all their dorms except for Kármán Tódor and Schönherz.