The Ministry for Social Relations and Culture said Monday that the government is continuing the Határtalanul! (“Borderless”) program, which enables seventh-grade students in Hungary to take study trips lasting at least two nights to regions of Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, Slovenia and Croatia inhabited by ethnic Hungarians.
The trips aim to give students firsthand experience of life in those communities and help them build relationships with local young people.
The program has a budget of HUF 2 bln, with nonrefundable grants ranging from HUF 1 million to HUF 7 million per application. Successful applicants will receive the full amount in advance, with no own contribution required.
The ministry also announced its first dedicated call for applications to support Hungarian-language electronic media abroad. The scheme has a budget of HUF 200 million, with individual grants ranging from HUF 4 million to HUF 30 million.
According to the ministry, the new scheme replaces ad hoc, case-by-case funding decisions with an open, transparent application process for online media operating wholly or partly in Hungarian in the Carpathian Basin.
Organizations based in Slovakia, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria and Ukraine’s Transcarpathia region are eligible to apply.
In addition to supporting editorial operations, the funding aims to increase the visibility of the lives, values and causes of ethnic Hungarian communities abroad. Eligible content may cover minority rights, local economic developments, heritage protection and marginalized groups, through formats including investigative articles, video reports and podcasts.
The ministry said both programs support the government’s goal of strengthening ties between Hungarian communities at home and abroad while preserving their shared cultural heritage.
The calls were published by the Bethlen Gábor Asset Management Company on behalf of the ministry’s state secretary for Hungarian nation policy.
Applications for both schemes must be submitted electronically through the national policy IT system by 2 p.m. on Nov. 6.
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