A total of 1.89 billion HUF is available for disadvantaged primary and secondary school students for the school year 2012/2013 within the framework of the “For the road” scholarship program.

Its subprograms called “Road to secondary school” and “Road to Certificate of Education”, launched by the Human Resources Support Management Office on behalf of the State Secretariat for Social Inclusion of the Ministry of Human Resources, provide scholarship and mentoring programmes in order to enhance the learning opportunities of disadvantaged students, with special regard to those of Roma origin.

Creating equal opportunities for disadvantaged students is an important objective for the government and will reap its rewards for the whole of society. Owing to the “For the road” program, more than twenty thousand students received financial and mentoring support last year and 50 percent of new applicants for the school year 2012/13 are of Roma origin.

(Prime Minister’s Office)