10Th Anniversary Publication
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10TH ANNIVERSARY PUBLICATION 10TH ANNIVERSARY PUBLICATION TABLE OF CONTENTS — ABOUT THE FOUNDATION 8 THE DIRECTOR’S REMARKS 11 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 12 FOUNDATION BOARD 13 BOARD OF ADVISORS / SUPERVISORY BOARD 14 INTERNATIONAL BOARD OF SENIOR ADVISORS 15 PARTNER INSTITUTIONS 18 ABOUT JÓZSEF ANTALL 22 IN MEMORIAM JÓZSEF ANTALL 23 QUOTES AND PHOTOS 24 BUDAPEST OFFICE 26 OUR PREVIOUS PROGRAMMES 28 FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY 30 INNOVATION 38 RESEARCH 44 SUSTAINABILITY 46 TALENT 48 DANUBE REGATTA 52 BRUSSELS OFFICE 54 REGIONAL OFFICES 62 PÉCS 64 GYŐR 65 PUBLISHING OFFICE 66 ABOUT THE FOUNDATION 10 ABOUT THE FOUNDATION secondary and higher education. Furthermore, we launched a THE DIRECTOR’S number of scholarships at international organisations (United REMARKS Nations, Hungarian cultural institutes) or accepted partnership in international programmes already existing (e.g. Fulbright, — Erasmus+) to maintain a channel for gifted young people to experience an international working environment. Besides talent management, research activities and the popularisation of academic results are the sinews of our institution. The priorities of our work, conducted at the main office in Budapest, our international outlet in Brussels, and two regional offices in the Hungarian university towns of Pécs and Győr, are to foster institutional cooperation within and without the boundaries of Hungary and to deepen academic collaboration internationally. The Knowledge Centre is progressively becoming a think tank which is indispensable in certain fields (e.g. European Union, V4 Cooperation, transatlantic relations, the future of East Asia and the Middle East, security policy, sustainable development, technological and societal innovation) not only in a domestic but also in a regional context. Our academic duties are completed by a wide-ranging book publishing activity. Books released by the AJKC Publishing Office are conveying the message of the most significant thinkers of our times and the recent past available to a Hungarian audience interested in political and social studies. PÉTER ANTALL, DIRECTOR Our specialised books react to the most significant trends in social and economic life and provide an output for the In January 2008, the European Parliament decided to name newest writings with the state-of-the-art findings in the one of the wings of its buildings after Hungarian Prime Minister fields of international relations, geopolitics, economics, József Antall. The ceremonial inauguration took place a year and psychology. Our publishing profile is further diversified after, in January 2009. This gesture clearly made me realise with university textbooks and essay collections written and the extent to which my father’s name is revered throughout compiled by our own research team, as well as the quarterly Europe fifteen years after his death. The Antall József Knowledge magazine In Focus. Centre was still in the formative phase, but it already garnered the support of remarkable personalities such as German This is where we are today. We have reached this point by 2019 Minister of Finance Wolfgang Schäuble who not only knew my on the road we took a decade ago. According to my plans, the father, but they held one another in high esteem. Upon hearing the next ten years will be about making our institution internationally name, József Antall, European heads of states, former ministers, renowned and to earn a place in academic discourse and and decision-makers at European Union bodies accepted become an indispensable institution on a European level as our invitation to take part in the International Board of Senior well. Our profile has been constantly streamlined in the past ten Advisors of the Knowledge Centre or our different academic years, our strong points stood out, and an academic community events. Feedback from former colleagues of my father, such was born out of the cooperation among our colleagues and as that of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who had already retired partners. All the munitions, organisational as well as intellectual, at the time when he accepted to be our honorary chairman, are now at the disposal of the Antall József Knowledge Centre strengthened our ideas that an institute for political and social to live up to similar European institutions named after illustrious studies would contribute to the continuous appreciation of the European statesmen and to reach widespread international name Antall in Europe. recognition. From the outset, I thought it important to carry on the intellectual legacy of Antall in the activities of the Knowledge Centre. Therefore, we put transatlantic relations, European integration, foreign and security policy, cross-border national unity, and talent management as the cornerstones of our activity as an institute. This latter was not only a labour of love for him but personally for me, too—because I realised where my talents lay relatively late. This is why that, during the 10-year existence of AJKC, our colleagues organised countless event series, workshops, roundtable discussions in order to help the occupational orientation and development of those enrolled in 11 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS — MRS KLÁRA ANTALL, FOUNDER In the spring of 2009, the József Antall Building of the European Parliament in Brussels was inaugurated. It was at the conference organised on this occasion that I announced the establishment of the Antall József Knowledge Centre (AJKC). At the time, I did not anticipate that, in only a couple of years, we would achieve the kind of results you are going to read about in this anniversary brochure, neither did I foresee that we would inaugurate the bust of my husband in the building bearing his name and open the Knowledge Centre’s Brussels Office. The Knowledge Centre has come a long way in the past ten years. The initiative to create an institution, named after my husband, where talent management and research in the field of social studies are conducted, has become an institution that is renowned nationwide as well as internationally, and, today, it provides a place where talented and ambitious youngsters pursue their goals in fields important to the one-time Prime Minister. It is especially delightful to see young colleagues at the Knowledge Centre constantly having in mind the same values that drove József Antall as a politician. Realising the dedication of youngsters to keep the intellectual legacy of Antall alive in the 21st century fills me with joy and pride. This, looking back from ten years, reinforces me that founding the Knowledge Centre was indeed a first step on the right course. Special acknowledgements and thanks are due for the International Board of Senior Advisors, through which we are proud to welcome Europe’s outstanding statesmen, as well as former colleagues and friends of my husband. It is a tragic loss that some of them has passed away—most recently the intimate friend of my husband, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. At the same time, a younger generation of politically responsible people stand by the Knowledge Centre, and, thus, I firmly hope that the next ten years will see this institution, named after my husband, continually be a source of pride for itself and the country. 12 ABOUT THE FOUNDATION DR BARNA Has been Senior Lecturer at the Faculty FOUNDATION BOARD MEZEY of Law and Political Sciences of Eötvös — Loránd University (ELTE) since 1983. From 2000 to 2008, served as Dean of ELTE’s MRS KLÁRA Is wife of József Antall, the first freely- Faculty of Law and Political Sciences ANTALL elected Prime Minister of Hungary after and, from 2010 to 2017, as its Rector. Has the regime change. Is Founder of the Antall been doctor of the Hungarian Academy József Knowledge Centre, established in of Sciences (HAS) since 2011. From 2012 2010. In 2014, Polish President Bronisław to 2014, acted as Head of the Hungarian Komorowski awarded her the Grand Rectors’ Conference. Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. — — DR GYÖRGY Studied and obtained his doctorate in 1974 DR ATTILA Pursued his medical studies in Pécs. NÓGRÁDI at the Budapest University of Economics. MISETA Is a medical laboratory specialist and Earned his Candidate in Military Science acts as the Chair of the Department of in 1986 and his university professor status Laboratory Medicine of the University of in 1997. Is Head of the Research Institute Pécs. Became a professor in 2006. Served of Defence and Security Science, expert as the Vice Dean of the Medical School on security policy. Is Member of the of the University of Pécs from 2006 to academic advisors’ council of the Austrian 2010, then as Dean from 2010 to 2018. Minister of Defence. Is Chairman of AJKC’s Has been the Rector of the University of Foundation Board. Pécs since 1 July 2018. — — DR LÁSZLÓ Was the Vice Director of the Institute of ANNAMÁRIA Graduate of CUB and a former EU BORHY Archaeology and the Rector’s Secretariat. STEINER-ISKY professional with mainly policy expertise. Habilitated in 2002, and has been Doctor Worked as a policy advisor in the European of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Parliament (2009–2014). Designed (HAS) since 2004. Served as Head of innovative policy initiatives for the State the Department of Classical Archaeology Secretary for European Affairs during the and the Institute of Archaeology. Has Hungarian V4 presidency year (2017–2018). been a corresponding member of HAS Now advising the Ministerial Commissioner since 2014. Was Dean of the Faculty of in the PM Office on governance scholarships Humanities of ELTE from 2015 to 2017, abroad. Has been a guest speaker in the and was elected its Rector in 2017. Robert Schuman Institute since 2014. — — DR PÉTER Graduated from the Faculty of ZSOLT Graduated in 1998 from the Budapest FÖLDESI Transportation Engineering of the SZABÓ Collage of Foreign Trade, and in 2004, Budapest University of Technology, earned his degree in Economics at ELTE. earned his CSc in 1994, and his PhD Worked for the Robert Schuman Institute, in 2004.