Elżbieta Rafalska, the Polish Minister of Family Affairs, Labor and Social Policy held a consultation with the leaders of our Institute on family policies and future cooperation opportunities of our countries. At the meeting, the Ministry of Human Capacities was represented by Attila Beneda MD, Deputy State Secretary for Family Policy.
MD Jane Wathuta, Head of the Institute of Family Studies and Ethics at Strathmore University, Kenya, and colleagues from our Institute have consulted on the family policies of our countries.
The conference ‘Towards a Family-Friendly Europe’ was organised by György Hölvényi MEP and the National Association of Large Families (NOE) in the Brussels building of the European Parliament, named after the former Hungarian Prime Minister Antall József.
Following the Year of Families, the family-friendly Hungary may strenthen further, as it is still in the focus of the government to eliminate any barrier to the start to life and family formation of young people, said the Secretary of State for Family and Youth Affairs of the Ministry of Human Capacities.
On November 29, 2018, a Korean family policy delegation has visited the Kopp Maria Institute with the aim to acquaintance themselves in detail with the Hungarian family policy and child welfare system. Our Institute has received the delegation together with the competent field of the Ministry of Human Capacities (EMMI), presenting them the most important elements of Hungarian family policy.
The closing event of the MoveS network series this year was held in Salzburg on November 15-16, 2018, at which an international coordinator of KINCS has participated. The network devotes itself to issues relating to the free movement of workers and social services, is funded by the European Commission, and its members include national experts from Member States.
