Bangladesh and Hungary have signed an MoU that secured Hungarian Governments’ full scholarships under the Stipendium Hungaricum Program for a yearly intake of 130 Bangladeshi students at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels for the next three years.
Bangladesh Ambassador to Austria, Hungary, and Slovenia Muhammad Abdul Muhith and Hungarian State Secretary Dr. Orsolya Pacsay-Tomassich signed the MoU at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary in Budapest on June 30, according to a statement issued today.
There are 30 dedicated scholarships for the students and professionals of nuclear energetics in the new MoU, which is a new initiative in comparison to the previous 100-scholarship per year program for Bangladeshi students which ran for three years.
During a meeting before the signing ceremony, the two sides discussed future roadmap for the growing bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Hungary including economy, health, water management and agriculture, joint-celebration of the Birth Centenary of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Budapest this year. ♦
