4 doctoral students, László Ambrus, Orsolya Dani (Pál-Jakab), Hunor Gál and Edit-Rozália Péter represented the Doctoral School of Religion, Culture and Society at the conference held at the Faculty of Theology of the Hungarian University of Applied Sciences in Budapest.

In his opening speech, Dr. Attila Puskás, Dean of the PPKE HTK, drew the attention of the participants to the historical link that the person of Péter Pázmány creates between the two institutions. Péter Pázmány studied at the Jesuit College in Cluj, of which BBTE is the successor. At the same time, the Pázmány Péter Catholic University is the successor of the very institution founded by Cardinal Péter Pázmány.
Attila Puskás illustrated the close relationship between BBTE, RKTK and PPKE, HTK through Erasmus programmes, publications, conferences, lectures, participation in doctoral and habilitation committees. From this academic year onwards, the two institutions have also started to cooperate more closely at the level of their doctoral schools.
Dr Imre Kocsis, Head of the Doctoral School of the PPKE, HTK, explained the importance and depth of the meetings in his welcoming speech.
The Dean of our faculty, Dr. Dávid Diósi, emphasized in his welcome speech that the conference will give the opportunity to the doctoral students of the Catholic doctoral schools of the PPKE and the BBTE, the most representative and strongest universities of 2 countries – from the point of view of Catholic theology – to meet, get to know each other and give a taste of the wide spectrum of their research. He also reminded the participating doctoral students that, beyond their research, they are living witnesses that “it is worthwhile, necessary and even necessary to engage in theology, which in fact means to search for and reveal the footprints of the living God in history, in our history, for our society”.