Expert Ease 2019 – Finding Synergies in Polish – Hungarian Foreign Policy

The project “Expert Ease” – Finding synergies in Polish-Hungarian foreign policy” aims to evaluate the current situation of Polish and Hungarian foreign policy directions in terms of European and global politics.

The project consists of two main parts: 1) a student essay competition on the topics of the roundtable talks/workshops; 2) a joint session of lectures given by senior V4 experts and a student conference where the winners of the competition introduce their essays in the framework of a Summer School in
July 2019. By the end of the registration deadline, the participants submit essays on one of the listed topics. For the student conference, the authors of the best essays will be invited from both Hungary and Poland,
thus ca 6-8 students is to present their ideas on the subject matter. They will also have the chance to publish their writings in the journal Biztpol Affairs published by the Corvinus Society for Foreign Affairs and Culture.

With the support of the Polish Embassy in Budapest, we would like to organize this student conference with the accompanying experts’ panel on the aforementioned topics in mid-July of 2019.

The conference is also to include an opening of the State Secreatary for European Affairs of the Prime Minister’s Office and an opening panel discussion with the Ambassadors of Czechia, Poland, Slovakia and the Hungarian MFA representative. During the expert panel session, the speakers from University of Warsaw, National University of Public Service and the War Studies University will have the opportunity to share their views on the subject matter.