Buying Time for Climate Action – New Book Available

The narrator of the video on the new book Buying Time for Climate Action is Professor Daniel C. Brooks, the Senior Research Fellow at iASK.
Significant progress made in the renovation of the Kőszeg Ball House

After more than two decades of unsuccessful attempts and failures in terms of recovery and renovation, the KRAFT programme will soon bring about a worthy renewal of the Ball House of Kőszeg.
“Europe of two velocities or Europe really United” by Klaus Prömpers
Date: 5th of October 2021 (Tuesday) at 2.00 pm (CET)
Venue: Online platforms of IASK (Zoom and Facebook)
The formation of the Bethlen government and the intellectual background of consolidation

Date: Tuesday, 28 September 2021, 10.00 (CET)
Venue: Parliament House, Main Hall, Budapest V. district, Kossuth Lajos tér 1-3.
Development policy 2021-2027 – Online presentation

Online presentation on Monday 27 September 2021, from 14.00 to 15.00
Moments of the Szigetköz – Photo Exhibition by Zoltán Alexay

Venue: Zwinger Old Tower – Kőszeg H-9730 Chernel st. 16.
Date: 21 of September 2021, at 6 pm
Opening of the Hankiss Archive

Venue: Festetics Palace Kőszeg H-9730 Chernel st. 10.
Date: 20 September 20, 2021 Monday 18.00 (CET)
A Personal Farewell to Iván Vitányi – by Ferenc Miszlivetz

Read the whole article at www.mandiner.hu in Hungarian!
Hungary Update: Progress in the restoration of the synagogue in Kőszeg

Following years of false starts and failed announcements, restoration is well underway on the long-derelict 19th-century synagogue in Kőszeg, Hungary – report by the JHE
Sgraffito House – Kőszeg

The most famous building in the city centre, built in the 16th century in Renaissance style. Originally a ground floor building, a floor was added in the 1560s. The ground floor was once used as shops, the upper floors as apartments. The building takes its name from the technique used on its façade, which originated […]
Festetics Palace – Kőszeg

On the site of the former Chernel or Festetics Palace, in the early 1700s, there were two smaller houses owned by the Count Nádasdy family. They were united by József Kelcz, lawyer of the Transdanubian District Court and later adviser to the royal chancellery, who had the buildings rebuilt in the late Baroque-Rococo style in […]
Zwinger – Old-Tower – Kőszeg

At 16 Chernel Street you will find the medieval Zwinger, also known as the Old Bastion. It was built in the 14th century and served as the southwestern corner bastion of the former city wall during wartime. The wall extended 10 meters from the outer wall, providing a gateway to the Sarkos Bastion, or Little […]