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Your Success is Our Success – Ibrahem Sabra
We are very proud to announce that Ibrahem Sabra, student of the Budapest Business University received the Excellence and Creativity Award of the Hungarian National Bank.
Opening Ceremony 2023
On 20 October 2023, the Hungary Helps Agency officially opened the new academic year and proudly celebrated the fifth year since this scholarship program launched.
Testimonies in Bakonyszentiván
On 23rd September, 2023 two of our scholarship holders, received invitation from the believers of Bakonyszentiván community, to attend the expiation prayer day there. The aim of this invitation is to get the chance to meet Christians from other cultures, different...
SCYP Yearbook 2023
Your Success is Our Succes!
Please welcome our yearbook, which summarises the past year, presenting the universities participating in the programme, the most important programmes for SCYP scholarship holders and those scholarship holders who graduated this year.
Operational Regulations in a Brief
An infographic which summarises the programme’s Operational Regulations and contains the most important rules for scholarship holders.
Top 10 tips for first-year students
The new academic year is about to begin, with new opportunities and new scholarship holders. We asked some of our scholarship holders what advice they would give you. What has meant the most to them? What difficulties did they face? You can find a summary of this in 10+1 points below.
SCYP Scholarship Holders on the 36th National Scientific Students’ Associations Conference (OTDK)
One 1st place, one 3rd place, two special prizes, 9 participating SCYP Scholarship Holders on the 36th National Scientific Students’ Associations Conference (OTDK).
Please welcome their story.
Holy Mass for Persecuted Christians
Holy Mass for persecuted Christians at the Downtown Parish Church, where State Secretary, Mr. Tristan Azbej spoke, and some of the SCYP scholarship holders also bravely stood up to testify and share their lives and experiences of persecution.
Lumina Park and Body Worlds
Celebrating the end of the exam period, our ESC volunteers visited the Lumina Park and Body Wolrd exhibitions with some of our scholarship holders. During the programmes they were able to learn about the world and the human body from a new perspective.
Your Success is Our Success
Asad Rahji, one of the scholarship holders of the Scholarship Programme of Christian Young People won the first place in the “A Sea of Words” award from the „European Institute of the Mediterranean” in Barcelona for his short story “Stories Seeking Shelters”. It is our greatest honor to share his story with you!
Five Churches Advent Festival
We visited one of the concerts of the Five Churches Advent Festival in Győr, where the 30-year-old Ukrainian Pikkardiyska Tertsiya and the 20-year-old Hungarian Saint Ephramm Male Choir performed traditional Christmas carols and chants together with some internationally well-known songs.
Armenian Culture in the Diaspora: Transylvania and Bukovina
In the end of October a study trip took place in Romania for students of PPKE Armenian Studies Department in frames of the Hungary Helps Programme. During this one-week trip students travelled to major Armenian settlements of Transylvania and Bukovina.
Opening Ceremony 2022
New academic year!
New opportunities!
On 20 October 2022, the Hungary Helps Agency officially opened the new academic year.
Mass of Nations 2022
The ESC volunteers with a group of 14 Scholarship Holders, attended the “Mass of Nations” in the St. Stephen’s Basilica.
Get to know Szentendre
On 25th August, 2022, students traveled to Szentendre, to visit the Japanese Garden, the “Umbrella Street” and a lot more places.
Festival of Folk Arts
The scholarship holders, together with our ESC volunteers, visited the "Festival of Folk Arts" on 19 August, where they were introduced to Hungarian folk art, folk costumes, food, jewellery and decorative elements.After visiting the exhibition at the Buda Castle, they...
Festival of European Peoples
On 7th August, 2022, students traveled to Szeged for the final weekend of the "Festival of European Peoples". Students from Szeged guided the tour of the city. The program came to a close at the Museum of Public Culture, where a German and a French folk dance troupe...
Get to know Hungary
The “Get to Know Hungary” program was introduced on August 5, 2022. Along with the Director General of Hungary Helps Agency, students traveled to Pannonhalma and Tihany, to learn about their history.
Bosch exhibition
On July 8, 2022, Vanda, an ESC volunteer who works with the SCYP program, took part in a day of team-building activities with students who volunteered to welcome newcomers. They went to the museum together and admired the Bosch exhibit as their first activity of the...
Five Churches Festival
The scholarship holders attended a day of the Five Churches Festival in Győr on May 16, 2022. They toured churches of various religions in the early afternoon and guided about their histories. The Barcelona Gypsy Balkan Orchestra performed to crown the evening.
Budapest 100
On May 14, 2022, the scholarship holders attended the “Budapest 100” festival, where they got the chance to see structures that are off-limits to visitors at other times of the year.
International Eucharistic Congress
Fifty of the scholarship holders of the Scholarship Programme for Christian Young People program participated in the International Eucharistic Congress held in Budapest from 5 to 12 September. The scholarship holders attended the Family Day on the Margit sziget on...
Farewell lunch 2021
State Secretary Tristan Azbej invited all the SCYP Scholarship Holders who had successfully completed their studies in Hungary to a farewell lunch on 23 July. The ceremony was also attended by Péter Kovács-Pifka, the Director General of the Hungary Helps Agency. They...
Wonder biscuit for people suffering from hunger
The goal of the Nigerian Christian student studying in Hungary is to save her people.
Farewell lunch 2020
More Christian young people from the Middle East and Africa have successfully completed their higher education studies in Hungary through our scholarship programme.
Epiphany Spiritual Recollection
Opening Ceremony 2019
We welcomed the scholarship holders of the Scholarship Programme for Christian Young People at the opening ceremony of the 2019 academic year.
Farewell lunch 2019
At the end of the school year, we held a dinner for the graduating scholarship holders.
Washington D.C.
The 2nd Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom was for a broad range of stake-holders including foreign government offi¬cials, international organizations, religious leaders and social activists who address the challenges facing religious freedom as well as recommended best practices to advance religious freedom for all.
Brussels
Hungary Helps Program Goodwill Ambassador, MEP György Hölvényi has invited 20 Scholarship Holders for field trip in Brussels to get to know about European Union and how the European Parlament works.
Rome
State Secretary Tristan Azbej invited 20 SCYP Scholarship Holders to Rome in October 2018 to give testimony at the opening ceremony of the Cross-in-Fire Exhibition.