Hungary

Merlin is an open cultural institution that believes that the notion “culture” cannot be reduced to merely theater, dance, fine arts or music. Other areas of our lives must also be included, and what determines us the most: the world around us. Strictly speaking the social realities of Budapest, Hungary and on a larger scale, Europe.

The Middle East Research Centre takes part in the teaching and scientific work of the Faculty, conducts and helps Hungarian and foreign students in preparing their theses about Middle East topics, fosters interrelations and co-operation with similarly focused institutions abroad and in Hungary. It organizes lectures, workshops, conferences, its experts offer analysis and commentary for television, radio, and printed media.

The Minister and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage ensures the freedom of artistic life and the continued evolution of national culture, maintains and protects the nation’s cultural heritage and historical monuments, coordinates these duties and provides professional leadership for the sector and operates supervisory and professional organisations. The Minister’s and the ministry’s duties include, among other things, the registration, preservation and protection of cultural goods and making these treasures available to the public, and to provide guidance for activities related to public education and collections and for the works of creative and performing artists. Further activities: drawing up drafts of legislation on the subject, adopting decisions for placing historical monuments and archaeological sites under protection, the surveillance of museums, libraries, and archives, the preparation of international agreements on cultural subjects, the overseeing of the operations of foreign

Our missionis to support less privilege youths living in Hungary. We organise cultural events to encourage tolerance in our society. Also, we offer the opportunity for young people regardless of their background the possibility to take part in intercultural activities both in and outside Hungary.
Our objectives are:
Publishing information brochures and organizing forums to properly inform the Hungarian society about the ethnic minorities and foreigners living in Hungary.
Making network with non-profit organizations, governmental bodies and other authorities, institutions with the purpose of exchanging knowledge and co-operation in youth and cultural fields.
Giving the possibility to young people to take part in intercultural activities, such as youth exxchanges, voluntary services, trainings, both inside and outside of Hungary
Promoting the culture of non-Hungarians living in Hungary in the frame of festivals and other programmes.

Notars (Womanmate) Foundation’s goal is to make the women’s equality come about in the societal and economic practice by self-conscious, well-informed, gender-dimensioned women and men.
Notars (Womanmate) Foundation’s mission is to strengthen and continually develop women’s enterprises by cooperating with non-governmental organizations, firms and volunteers by means of trainings, programmes, publications, partnerships, consultancy, running networks and through the publicity for enterpreneur and civil women in Hungary and the European Union, together with participating in the establishment and development of
self-conscious women’s networks, who are capable of validating themselves.

The Foundation aims to increase the utilization of the documentary in the society. Our organization is dedicated to the preservation of cultural diversity and interest. Our projects with the documentary use are promoting social awareness, the need and responsibility of forming an opinion. To achieve this: the development and realization of alternative film distribution strategies, organizing professional events, workshops, publishing film making publications, database management and providing information, archiving, education, fostering young talent, film making. The Foundation has also the profile to organize documentary film festivals and make film collections about the actual social questions.

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PLM collects, preserves and exhibits cultural heritage, to enrich cultural life and to promote literature and the value of reading on an individual level and in the society to generations of audiences as a means to comprehend and be able to connect to the world around us and to understand one another and each other’s experiences better.
The PLM undertakes/aims to
- process and preserve the inherited collections under modern conditions.
- collect materials of museum value from contemporary Hungarian literature such as writers’ and poets’ legacies, correspondence, libraries, sound and video recordings, photographs, furniture, personal belongings, the documents of the editorial offices of literary periodicals etc. as a basis of conscious, scholarly-founded, ideology-free expansion of the collections.
- play an active role in scientific life both on a national and international level, to foster and support scientific research in literature and (literary) museology and support individual researchers as well as research labs or scientific institutions. We make use of the intellectual value of our collections, catalogues and databanks in critical editions, philological and textological research. Our museologists participate in university education as lecturers, and our volumes of essays and studies appear in the technical literature of cultural research and literary museology.
- present its various collections through exhibitions and online to the widest possible audience. Since its establishment, PLM has organised almost 500 exhibitions and issued more than 300 scholarly and popularising publications and exhibition catalogues.
- offer learning opportunities and well as quality cultural programmes to the widest possible audience and invigorate local (and national) cultural life. The PLM – with its branch institutions - organizes 600-700 events annually for people of all ages, professions and interests. Around 40% of the PLM’s programming is based on partnerships with a variety of institutions from university departments to foreign cultural institutes, publishers or various civil society organizations.
- promote Hungarian literature, encourage reading, support various literary initiatives through partnerships, grants, scholarships and other support programmes.
- work together with all levels of the education system and provide valuable learning experiences to students of all ages in PLM’s buildings and in classrooms.
- promote Hungarian literature internationally through the Hungarian Books and Translations Office providing grants for publishers and translators of Hungarian literary works.

With our main goal being to support the art of live music and, at the same time, inspire people to live a fulfilled and healthy life, we believe that music is able heal the soul and relax the mind. The sound of the acoustic music instruments is inimitable and is a tool to communicate with the audience. In the age of the internet, despite of the overcrowded societies, people become alienated easily; a live music event is able to entertain, teach and build a community. The idea of a healthy, sustainable life is also important for us. Dance and yoga classes are among the projects supported by the Play Live Foundation.