The government of Hungary has created the VERITAS Research Institute for History by passing Government Regulation 373/2013 (X.25.).
The Institute’s most important endeavors for 2014 are establishing its organizational structure and headcount, as well as starting its initial research projects. Additionally, we are placing great emphasis on working together with other research institutes, historical archives, libraries and museums. Among our academic activities, the most important topics to be covered are the Dual Monarchy period (1867-1919), the interwar period, and the post-WWII period from 1944 to 1994, objectively presenting the politics, society and ideas associated with each era. In order to examine these topics thoroughly, we have created three separate teams of researchers:
The establishment of the Institute has created a novel opportunity for a relationship between the historian profession and the media, for the historian’s values can be most effectively shared for public consumption via the tools of the media. It is for this reason that our research fellows must be ready to support and defend their positions with convincing, fact-based articulation. At the same time --- taking into account the principle that where the study of history is concerned, there may be several different, at times even opposing, legitimate viewpoints --- respect must be shown to others’ established, data-supported and fact-based conclusions.
That is why we especially, all-encompassingly, believe that throughout the life of the Institute, the following perspectives shall be followed and maximally abided by:
We plan to submit for publication the Institute’s findings in a yearbook --- in Hungarian --- and if possible, in foreign history and political journals, as well as in independent volumes.
Every year the VERITAS Research Institute for History will organize two to three large --- both national and international, as well as several smaller --- workshops. Moreover, from autumn of 2014, the Institute will host a series of debates (with both its own historians and external experts participating), as well as send its own historians to participate in other research institutes’ debate sessions or act as a co-organizer if the case may be.
The research team shall:
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The research team would like to consider the much debated---but only partially disclosed---events surrounding the Interwar period, such as:
(Please note that all English-language pages on the website are written in American English.)
The research team’s main topics of research shall be:
(Please note that all English-language pages on the website are written in American English.)