On 25 March 2011 István Hegedűs made a presentation on the Hungarian EU Presidency to the students of the Center for Global Affairs at the New York University on skype.
István Hegedűs made a lecture entitled "Have the European Parliament Elections Been Europeanised in Hungary in 2014?" at the annual meeting of the Hungarian Political Science Association at the University o
In Britain, the campaign of the European Citizens' Initiative for Media Pluralism started on 21 March 2013. István Hegedűs represented the coalition of Hungarian NGO-s at the event in the House of Lords.
The Hungarian Europe Society organised a workshop entitled “First Time Hungarian EU Presidency, First Time in a Trio” on 29-30 October 2010 at the Central European University in Budapest.
István Hegedűs made a presentation entitled „The Hungarian Experience: Accession Agreements and What Comes the Day After” at the conference organised by The Georgian Institute for Strategic Studies on the subject