The Széchenyi István University has concluded a cooperation agreement with the Mária Kopp Institute, within which Hungarian and international research collaborations are implemented, and the internship program at the Institute provides a new opportunity for the students of the university. The focus of cooperation is on family and family-friendly attitudes.
According to eight out of ten Hungarians, mothers hold the families together and play the biggest role in raising children – turned out from the survey of the Mária Kopp Institute for Demography and Families (KINCS). The majority of responding adults are grateful to their mothers for raising them. According to nearly three quarters of them, mothers are valued in Hungary today. Most of them believe that family policy should be based on mothers.
Hungary protects and supports families raising children in order to ensure that having and bringing up children represent a favourable financial situation rather than a financial difficulty.
According to the vast majority of Hungarians (77%), the government sufficiently manages the situation of refugees from Ukraine, according to a representative survey conducted by the Maria Kopp Institute for Demography and Families, which asked 1000 people. One in three Hungarians provided some assistance to refugees from Ukraine, and the same number is aware that the number of refugees arriving in our country has now exceeded 600,000. Most of them donated money (58%) or provided other donations to those in need (40%).
Every year on 8th April we celebrate International Roma Day. On this day, in 1971, the First World Roma Congress was held, where delegates decided to call the ethnic group itself Roma. Since 1990, the international community has been celebrated to what and to whom Roma should be proud of. Throughout the history, there has been many Roma athletes, actors, musicians and war heroes who were honoured to be Hungarians and we can be proud of many Roma role models of the present as well.
The majority of Hungarians are satisfied with the family-friendly policy of the last 12 years and support it’s continuation in the future, according to the representative research of the Maria Kopp Institute for Demography and Families (KINCS). For more than a decade, the government has been continuously expanding the family support system and providing unprecedented assistance to families. According to the survey conducted in late February and early March, all of the most important family-friendly measures contribute to improving the financial situation of families.
