A new website, funded by the United Kingdom’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the International Visegrad Fund, was presented at the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on December 18. MFA Deputy State Secretary Gergely Prőhle declared that the establishment of the web site demonstrated that Hungarian diplomacy and the Hungarian Presidency of the Visegrad Cooperation (V4) focuses on practical issues.

The website, www.britishalumni.org, was set up to facilitate the cooperation and the sharing of the knowledge of those experts coming from the V4 countries who have studied as recipients of the Chevening Scholarships in the UK. The goal of the project is to make the web site a forum for the professional dialogue of the Chevening Alumni in the areas of health care, research and development, energy, financial services, manufacturing and technology.

Mr Prőhle stressed that the establishment of the web site demonstrated that Hungarian diplomacy and the Hungarian Presidency of the Visegrad Cooperation (V4) focuses on practical issues, and puts matters on the agenda that appear relevant to the public as well. Seeting up this new web site was a message to the academic sphere as well as to civil society, he added.

(Ministry of Foreign Affairs)