As a preparation for the task of designing the Principles of Good Communication Conduct, the DIACOMET project has completed a systematic collection of existing codes of ethics and guidelines for public communication. They are presented to the public in the form of a searchable online database that is integrated in the DIACOMET project website. It is now available online.
Erik Uszkiewicz gave a presentation entitled "How Ukraine and Russia have been portrayed in the Hungarian public sphere since February 2022" at the Warsaw East European Conference at the University of Warsaw on 3 July 2024. The theme of the twentieth academic meeting in a row was "How to Deter Russia: Resilience of Ukraine and the Western Community".
The publication titled "Media Polarization Turbulences in Georgia and the Visegrad States: How to Depolarize?" was issued by the Georgian Institute of Politics in partnership with the Hungarian Europe Society, the Strategic Analysis Think Tank (Bratislava), the Institute of Public Affairs (Warsaw) and Masaryk Univers
István Hegedűs participated at the intergenerational roundtable discussion entitled "We are Europe" organised by the City Government of Szentendre together with the Cultural Centre of Szentendre on the twentieth anniversary of Hungary's accession to the European Union at the Postás Beach on 1 May 2024.
The Hungarian Europe Society organised an in-person and on-line workshop under the auspices of the DIACOMET project in cooperation with the SCIENCE+ regional project entitled "Scientific disinformation and populism" on 25 April 2024.
Scientific disinformation and populism
INVITATION to an in-person and on-line workshop organised by the Hungarian Europe Society under the auspices of DIACOMET project
in cooperation with the SCIENCE+ regional project
Date: 25 April 2024, Thursday 6:00 – 8:30 PM
Venue: Hungarian Europe Society, H-1052 Budapest, Gerlóczy utca 11.
RSVP: via e-mail (uszerik[at]gmail.com) by 19 April 2024
The DIACOMET consortium gathered on a project meeting in Budapest, Hungary, organised by Hungarian Europe Society on between 10 and 12 April 2024.
As the project is approaching its first year, the consortium meeting was a great opportunity to review the project activities so far and make plans for the future. The meeting began with a workshop on Dilemmas of Democratic Dialogue, organised under the auspices of DIACOMET.
Concluding Public Discussion
April 15, 2024 | 12:00h (GMT +4) | 10:00h (CET) Tbilisi Marriott/Hybrid
Hungarian civil society organisations, including the Hungarian Europe Society, called on EU Member States to finally take action in the Article 7 procedure against the Hungarian government on 20 June 2024.
The Hungarian Europe Society, as a member of Civilizáció NGO community, signed a protest against the so-called sovereignty protection bill introduced by the Hungarian government in November 2023. A broader campaign was also started to collect supportive signatures from citizens on 1 December.
In February 2022 HES signed the joint declaraion of Civilizáció to object that the Hungarian authorities' continuously pestering the Oltalom Karitatív Egyesület and the Magyarországi Evangéliumi Testvérközösség (MET). The signatory organisations stand for Oltalom and the religious community of MET and refuse the government's long-lasting offensive against them.
HES signed a joint letter of Civilizáció in February 2022 to express its respect and appreciation to the civil disobedience of Hungarian school teachers. The signatory organisations support the teachers' claims and acknowlede: strike is a fundamental right!
