As part of the annual Carpathian Basin educational program, the Sustainability Theme Week and the Green Bridge Volunteer Expert Program, we welcomed groups of elementary and high school students to the green library presentations at the ELTE University Library and Archives between April 13 and 30, 2026.

The goal of the theme week and the Green Bridge volunteer expert program is to demonstrate the complexity of sustainability and to shape students’ perspectives through an interactive program. The collaboration platform provides schools with the opportunity to connect with organizations that are active in the fields of sustainability and innovation and possess real-world practical experience. Through authentic, real-life examples, environmental protection becomes tangible, while also supporting students in their career orientation. As part of the program series, all of our announced dates were fully booked immediately following their publication on the official website. A total of nearly 400 students from twelve public schools attended our tours. Based on the feedback, the children gained new knowledge and had many positive experiences, finding inspiration for environmental protection and lifelong learning.

Emerald Publishing opens its entire Book collection to ELTE starting April 24. 

Trial access period: from 24th April to 31th May.

The Publisher’s eBook collection offers more than 8,800 titles, including monographs, book series, and handbooks. Partnering with a community of expert authors and editors from top global institutions, our books are a must-have resource. They cover some of the world’s most significant issues such as climate change, healthcare, as well as traditional business management and social sciences topics. The content challenges viewpoints, develops professional skills and brings positive change to society.

The content of the database can be accessed via ELTE IP addresses, or in the case of remote use, with an ELTE VPN and/or after logging in via Shibboleth.

Between the 28th and the 30th of April 2026, the ELTE EKL Savaria Library and Archives hosts the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Hungarian Association of Higher Education Archives. 

The professional conference will focus on current issues facing higher education archives and university public collections, and will provide an opportunity for the exchange of experiences, professional dialogue, and the strengthening of collaborations.

The three-day event will bring together archivists from higher education institutions across the country, who will examine the profession’s most important challenges and achievements through lectures, discussions, and joint programs.

It is an honor for our institution to host this prestigious professional event.

During the Night of Museums our guided tours focus on the history of the University Library and Archives, Eötvös Loránd University.

The library palace was designed by Antal Szkalnitzky. Up-to-date technology of the time was used for ventilation, heating and illumination. The tour will take you through the entrance hall decorated with sgraffiti to the reading room with figures on its ceiling which symbolise sciences and arts. Besides the magnificent art and architecture of the library’s Reading Hall, you can also admire an oil-painting of the middle-aged Franz Joseph I. by Mór Than and the reconstruction of the Perczel Globe. Our librarians will tell you the secrets, and show you the hidden nooks and crannies of the library. Join our library tour! For more information, please visit our website or the Night of Museums’ homepage. All visitors are welcome!

Guided tours:

University Library and Archives, Eötvös Loránd University

1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 6.

20/06/2026, Saturday – 19:00–19:45

20/06/2026, Saturday – 20:00–20:45

20/06/2026, Saturday – 21:00–21:45

20/06/2026, Saturday – 22:00–22:45

20/06/2026, Saturday – 23:00–23:45

Guided tours in English:

20/06/2026, Saturday – 19:30–20:15

20/06/2026, Saturday – 22:30–23:15

Within the framework of the Night of Museums program series, calligrapher Dezső Buzogány will hold a workshop on the 20th of June 2026 between 15:00 and 24:00 in the hall of the ELTE University Library and Archives (1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 6.). Our guests are able to gain an insight into the art of calligraphy.

Calligraphy adds creative flair to correspondence, parties, decorations and art projects. Learn more about this ancient art that is still popular today in our workshop with Dezső Buzogány. The programme is a perfect introduction to the art of hand lettering, you will learn the fundamentals of modern calligraphy using a dip pen and ink. For more information, please visit our website or the Night of Museums’ homepage. All visitors are welcome!

The ELTE–NFI FILMIO University Film Club screening and discussion series continues. We welcome university members from all ELTE faculties. In celebration of Mother’s Day and the upcoming Children’s Day, we warmly invite children and families to join us. (The film is recommended for ages 12 and up.)

A heartwarming, tear-jerking, laugh-out-loud family film that introduces viewers to the life of a sweet, slightly eccentric family through well-known actors, unique locations, and 21st-century visuals: Nina’s greatest dream is to become a writer – she inherited her creativity from her father, an animated film director. Her daily life is turned upside down by her clumsy magician younger brother, and since her mother (Rozi Lovas) died young, her somewhat strict aunt serves as the female role model in the family. When a new love enters her father’s life, Nina, following the guidance of a bohemian writer living next door, uses writing to process the loss of her mother and opens her heart to the new family member and her first love.

The film is based on Annet Huizing’s multi-award-winning novel How I Accidentally Wrote a Book, published in ten countries. The film won the Hungarian Film Award in 2025, the Special Prize for Feature Films at the 44th Hungarian Film Week, and the Grand Prize at the 28th Montreal International Children’s Film Festival.

Date: 6 May 2026; 6:00 p.m.

Venue: ELTE University Library and Archives, Community Space (1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 6, ground floor)

Director: Nóra Lakos

Screenwriter: Nóra Lakos

Cinematographers: Dániel Reich, Dániel Bálint

Editor: Béla Barsi

Music: Jacob Meijer, Alexander Reumers

Cast: Villő Demeter, László Mátray, Kati Zsurzs, Vivien Rujder, Réka Tenki. 

Guest for the post-screening discussion is Nóra Lakos, the film’s director.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGm6HPLOSGc&t=18s  

Due to limited seating, advance registration is required: https://www.ajk.elte.hu/veletlenul-irtam-egy-konyvet-2024

The organisers welcome any correspondence regarding the film club at eltenfi.filmklub@elte.hu.

ELTE–NFI Film Club Facebook page

As part of Cultural Connection Day on 23 April 2026, international and domestic students were able to obtain information about our library services and available databases at the ELTE University Library booth on the Lágymányos Campus.

The university event, held in the Gömb Auditorium, was organized around the theme of “Friendship Without Borders,” with the participation of approximately 27 embassies, 15 civil society organizations and student associations, and representatives from more than 30 countries, organised by the International Student Advisory Committee (ISAC), ELTE EHÖK, and INSINC, with the support of the ELTE International Strategic Office. At the event, both domestic and international students visited the ELTE University Library and Archives booth, learning about the wide range of opportunities and services offered by the library, as well as the benefits and programs provided by the international community space established as part of the BoYL project. Our library is committed to supporting the university’s internationalization efforts and strategic goals, with a particular focus on the integration of international students, the development of services tailored to their needs, community building, and the preservation of cultural diversity.

The ELTE–NFI University Film Club screening and discussion series continues. We welcome university members from all ELTE faculties.

Angi Vera is a young nursing assistant at a hospital. When she speaks out against the deplorable conditions, she is reprimanded, but the Communist Party takes her under its wing nonetheless. She is sent for ideological training, where she learns to be an agitator in exchange for room and board. Meanwhile, she falls in love with one of her teachers, but she is unable to live out her love within the strict confines of the school. The film is about how communism shattered people’s personalities. After all, the party school is like a prison: anyone who runs away is dragged back by soldiers; dancing and having fun are only allowed on command. Angi Vera is placed alongside the cold, hard-line Anna Traján, from whom years spent in hiding and fleeing the Arrow Cross have stripped away all humanity. By the end of the film, the dictatorship reveals its true face, willing to sacrifice everything for its goals.

Date: 29 April 2026, 6:00 p.m.

Venue: University Square Campus, Weiss Emilia Hall (1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1–3., ground floor, in the corridor next to the cloakroom)

Director: Pál Gábor

Screenplay: Pál Gábor, Endre Vészi

Cinematographer: Lajos Koltai

Editor: Éva Kármentő

Music: György Selmeczi

Starring: Vera Pap, Erzsi Pásztor, Éva Szabó, Tamás Dunai.

Our guests for the post-screening discussion: actress Éva Szabó, who plays Mária Muskát in the film, and Dr. Hajnalka Kovácsné Magyari, social historian and women’s history researcher.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Xt3f2Mg48 

Due to limited seating, advance registration is required: https://www.ajk.elte.hu/angi-vera-1979

The organisers welcome any correspondence regarding the film club at this address.

ELTE–NFI Film Club Facebook page

Bentham Science Publishers is providing trial access to its publications for EISZ members, including ELTE, from April 1st through June 30th. The Publisher primarily specializes in the fields of natural sciences, engineering, and medicine, providing the latest information for academic researchers and industry professionals across various areas of science and technology. Bentham Science currently publishes more than 130 journals in both electronic and print formats, most of them are indexed by both Scopus and Web of Science.

The content of the database can be accessed via ELTE IP addresses, or in the case of remote use, with an ELTE VPN and/or after logging in via Shibboleth.

For the duration of the trial access period, Bentham Science is also providing an Open Access publishing opportunity for ELTE authors. You can find more detailed information about the conditions of this in the document regarding ELTE's Read & Publish agreements.

Starting in 2024, they are collaborating closely with the Elsevier; every open access article that appears in the publisher's journals is also visible on ScienceDirect.

The period of the trial access and Read&Publish opportunity:

from 1 April to 30 June, 2026

For any problems related to database use or access, please contact us at the eisz@lib.elte.hu e-mail address; please send your questions regarding Open Access publishing to the oa@lib.elte.hu e-mail address.

The ELTE–NFI University Film Club screening and discussion series continues. We welcome university members from all ELTE faculties.

A film by world-famous director Béla Tarr, who passed away at the beginning of the year, based on the novel by Nobel Prize winner László Krasznahorkai.

A traveling circus unexpectedly arrives in a boring, quiet small town in the Hungarian Plain. Two of its attractions attract the public's attention: the prince and the giant whale. Strangers also come to the town, whom the prince enrages and incites to destruction, along with the locals. In a short time, all hell breaks loose, which common sense is unable to stop. The work paints a dark picture of our human present and future, in which there is no longer any place for idealism, and where the sharp line between killers and victims is often blurred.

The film will be shown with English subtitles. The discussion following the screening will also be in English.

Date: 27 April 2026, 6:00 p.m.

Venue: ELTE University Library and Archives, community space (Budapest, V. Ferenciek tere 6., ground floor)

In main roles: Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla, Péter Dobai, Ferenc Kállai, Kati Lázár.

Facilitate the discussion: Kinga Pétervári, associate professor at ELTE Faculty of Economics.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJVdq_G_Go

Due to limited seating, advance registration is required: eltenfi.filmklub@elte.hu.

The organisers welcome any correspondence regarding the film club at this address.

ELTE–NFI Film Club Facebook page