Education, Culture, Science and Technology Relations

A new Agreement on Science and Technology Cooperation was signed by Minister of Education Zoltán Pokorni in Washington in March 2000.  Cooperation defined by the Joint Hungarian-American Fund in technical sciences was ended after 10 years in 2004 and was replaced by new cooperation based on institutional relations.  The successfully developing areas include environmental protection, the energy sector, biotechnology, and medical research cooperation and reactor safety.

In December 1990 the two states signed an agreement on the establishment of a joint education committee (Fulbright Committee – www.fulbright.hu).

An institute of Hungarian culture was opened in New York in December 2001. (http://www.magyarintezet.hu/newyork)

Minister of Culture István Hiller signed a bilateral data protection agreement in Washington on 5 November 2003 allowing the research of holocaust data in the holocaust documents kept in Hungarian archives by experts of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (http://www.ushmm.org).

Minister of Culture István Hiller and Chairman of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad Warren Miller (http://www.heritageabroad.gov) signed an agreement in Budapest on 15 April 2004 on the protection of institutions and facilities forming part of the cultural heritage, dedicated to the memory of the victims of history.

The inter-ministerial framework agreement on health issues and medical sciences signed by Ministers of Health Jenő Rácz and Tommy Thompson on 14 January 2005 supports more effective cooperation in institutional development, logistics and sharing of medical knowledge.