Digitalisation is everywhere around us, it has entered the schools and teachers need information on global trends and possiblities. Learning Reloaded is a conference for all teachers working in Hungarian public education who are open to new and exciting ideas in teaching and digitalisation. The conference presents an overview of the experiments and reform processes of the Finnish education system, but it also covers the challenges along the way. The aim is to inspire the participating teachers to take active role in forming the future of education in Hungary by applying and developing new

Liksom whose works show a grim view of Finnish society will appear in the panel discussion Europe from Female Perspective on 21 October at 16 PM. She will be interviewed on 22 October at 15 PM . On 22 October at 16 PM there will be a discussion with Statovci about his work My Cat Yugoslavia . The discussion will be conducted by Hungarian author György Dragomán . The festival also features the award winning ceremony of the literary translation competition organized by the Hungarian-Finnish Society and ELTE University’s Department of Finno-Ugric Studies on 22 October at 14.30 PM. http://www.

Christmas comes early for fans of Finnish jazz this December, as top-class acts Gourmet and Jukka Eskola Soul Trio are booked for shows at Budapest’s Opus Jazz Club. New Jazz From Finland is a collaboration between FinnAgora and Budapest Music Center. New Finnish Jazz brings exciting contemporary acts from the Finnish jazz scene to Hungary. Gourmet is a favourite of both audiences and critics, and has been refered to by the former as ”The most proficient and at the same time the most entertaining Finnish jazz group”. Gourmet’s saga begun 20 years ago when founder members Mikko Innanen and Esa

Anilogue International Animation Festival takes place in Budapest for the fifteenth time between the 29th of November and 3rd of December. Anilogue gives special attention to animation art in Finland this year with the program Finnish Focus. The festival is organized at Urania National Movie Theatre and Kino cinema, while side programs can be seen also at Szimpla Kert and Magvető Cafe. Finnish Focus welcomes four guests from Finland; brothers Juha and Vesa Vehviläinen who are a duo of visual artists and electronic musicians known by the pseudonym Pink Twins, director of Turku Animated Film

The results of the literary translation competition organized for beginner translators by the Hungarian-Finnish Society and ELTE University’s Department of Finno-Ugric Studies, supported by FinnAgora are the following: Category prose: 1 st place: Botka Gabriella, Sabján Ildikó (shared prize) 2 nd place: Majoros Etelka 3 rd place: Freisingerné Bodnár Judit Category poetry: 1 st place: Buzás Borbála and Várkonyi Flóra (joint application) 2 nd place: Nagy Ulla 3 rd place: Neer Beatrix We would like to congratulate all our winners and thank everyone for participating in the competition. The award