On 7–8 October 2026, the Hungarian Accreditation Committee (MAB) conducted an on-site visit to Pázmány Péter Catholic University. During the visit, the Committee learned about the University’s activities through a series of thematic sessions. The Fraknói Research Group was represented in the session devoted to research at Pázmány, in which Viktor Kanász presented the Group’s activities, with particular emphasis on its contribution to the training and development of the next generation of researchers.

2026. October 9.

Csongor Cziráki, an intern at the Fraknói Research Group, won first prize in the competition organised by the Hungarian Batthyány Foundation for his paper, Common Interests, Shared Struggle: The Relationship between Captain-General Ádám Batthyány (I) and Bishop György Széchényi in the Light of Their Correspondence.


2026. October 5.

A new international series jointly published by the Fraknói Research Group, the Collegium Professorum Hungarorum, and the Gyula Moravcsik Institute has been appearing since 2024 under the title Storia d'Ungheria – History of Hungary, published by the Viterbo-based Edizioni Sette Città.

2026. October 2.
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The Vilmos Fraknói Vatican Historical Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Péter Pázmány Catholic University was established in the June of 2012 as the ‘Impetus’ Church History Research Group in the frame of the Church History Research Institute of the University founded by Rector Péter Erdő in 1999. It carries on independently the latter’s publications (Bibliotheca Historiae Ecclesiasticae Universitatis Catholicae de Petro Pázmány Nuncupatae) and researches in Rome and in Vienna, with the involvement of academic and other funding sources.

 

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