Bethlen Gábor Fund
A separate public fund set up in April 2011 to help achieve the objectives of the Hungarian Government’s kin-state policy strategy. Its funds are managed by Bethlen Gábor Fund Management Ltd. Its main task is to provide support to Hungarians living abroad in order to promote their individual and communal well-being, their material and spiritual prosperity, and the preservation of their culture in their homeland. It operates a transparent application system to ensure that grants are used and allocated efficiently. The Bethlen Gábor Fund is the administrator of domestic funds earmarked for supporting national minorities and churches, the National Cooperation Fund (which supports civil society cooperation), and the Hungarian Village Programme. It operates the House of Hungarians/Magyarság Háza/, which organises programmes, and the Institute for Kin-State Policy Research, which contributes to the professional background of national policy through its analyses and knowledge management. The overall national policy programmes of the Fund include ‘In Hungarian in the Motherland’ (education and training grants), ‘Borderless’ (student travel), and the development of Szabolcs-Szatmár County and Transcarpathia/Subcarpathia (Ukraine). In line with its kin-state policy strategy the Hungarian Government supports organisations, institutions and programmes of special national importance that place great emphasis on the preservation of the self-identity of Hungarians living beyond the borders of Hungary as well as their individual and collective well-being in their homelands.