Hungarian students abroad were able to expand their agricultural knowledge

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In his welcome address, he praised the fact that through the internship program, which has been operating since 2013, the employees of the Ministry of Agriculture and the university’s lecturers have been able to get to know young people from abroad who are committed to agriculture and who represent the agricultural intellectuals of the future, regardless of borders. “It is good news that many people in the Carpathian Basin choose agricultural training, this means for us that in the areas abroad, where the proportion of the Hungarian population engaged in agriculture and living from agriculture is exceptionally high, there will also be young, highly qualified professionals with agricultural degrees in the future who will continue or start family farms, agricultural enterprises, or who will help local producers, livestock keepers, and food producers with their advice and knowledge, thus also serving prosperity in their homeland,” emphasized the Deputy Secretary of State. The aim of the Carpathian Basin internship program of the Ministry of Agriculture is to allow Hungarian students abroad who study in Hungarian at vocational schools and agricultural higher education institutions abroad and participate in agricultural training to participate in a few-day internship in Hungary once a year, during which they will increase their theoretical and practical knowledge. In this year’s internship program, between May 11-16, the Gödöllő campus of MATE welcomed students and accompanying teachers from the faculties of Sapientia Transylvanian Hungarian University of Science and Technology in Târgu Mureș, Csíkszereda and Sepsiszentgyörgy, the Pro Selye Univerzitas Foundation in Felvidék, and the MATE Zenta outsourced training program. The students, who came from three different countries and five training locations and studied in Hungarian, listened to professional lectures, visited educational farms, and participated in cultural programs