Commissioner for Fundamental Rights congratulates newly elected European Ombudsman - AJBH-EN
Dr. Ernő Kállai
Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Ernő KÁLLAI, Deputy-Commissioner for Fundamental Rights, responsible for the Rights of Nationalities
Studies
2008 Ph.D. degree in legal theory and legal sociology at the Deák Ferenc Doctoral School of Law and Political Sciences, University of Miskolc
1997 - 2002 Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law and Political Sciences - lawyer
1994 - 1998 Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Arts - secondary school teacher of history
1990 - 1994 Eszterházy Károly Teacher Training College - teacher specialised in history and music
1994 - 1995 Journalism School - certified journalist
1995 Hungarian Radio - news editor and radio journalist
Employment
2010 Eszterházy Károly College, Faculty of Teacher Training and Knowledge Technology - head of department
2009 University of Debrecen, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Department of Constitutional Law - guest professor
2008 Corvinus University of Budapest, Post-graduate specialist training programme in equality and minority issues - mentor and guest professor
2007 Parliamentary Commissioner for National and Ethnic Minority Rights
2002 - 2010 Apor Vilmos Catholic College, Institute of Romology and Applied Social Sciences - head of institute, college professor
1998 Hungarian Academy of Sciences Ethnic and National Minority Research Institute - Head of research group on Romology
1999 - 2002 Miskolc University, Department of Sociology, professor
1996 - 1998 member of staff of the Roma Civil Rights Foundation
1988 - 1997 teacher at various educational institutions
Scholarships
2000 - 2002 Civic Education Project
1997 - 1999 Soros Foundation
1998 - 2002 European Roma Rights Centre
1997 - 1999 Roma Civil Rights Foundation, „Invisible College" for Roma students
Public and professional activities
2007 - Member of the Equal Treatment Professional Advisory Board
2002- 2005 Member of the board of trustees of the Autonomy Foundation
1998- 2004 Member of the board of trustees of the Gandhi Public Foundation
Membership of professional organisations
Hungarian Sociological Society - member of the Presidential Board
Hungarian Academy of Science - member of the Public Body
Hungarian Association of Lawyers
Hungarian Society of Political Sciences
Hungarian Ethnographical Society
Awards
2006 Award for Minorities
2005 honoured by the National Gypsy Self-Government for excellence in research
Main areas of research using empirical data survey in the past years
- Emergence of cultural rights of the minority communities'
- The new paradigms of handling of ethnic data
- Roma entrepreneurs in Hungary
- Research on local Gypsy minority self-governments
- The past and present of Gypsy musicians
- The social history of the Hungarian Roma in the 20th century
- Equal opportunities of Roma in Hungary. Self-governance, positive discrimination, and the role of education in improving the situation of the Roma - theoretical and practical models
- The theoretical models and practice in Hungary of local Gypsy minority self-governments
- The cultural autonomy of minorities
Press releases
null Commissioner for Fundamental Rights congratulates newly elected European Ombudsman
Commissioner for Fundamental Rights congratulates newly elected European Ombudsman
At the anonymous voting held at its session on 17 December 2024, the European Parliament, with 344 votes in favour, elected human rights expert, a former member of the Supervisory Committee of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), former Deputy Ombudsman of Portugal to the position of European Ombudsman. Ms. Teresa Anjinho will take office after 27 February 2025.
In his congratulation letter, the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary expressed his sincere hopes for a successful cooperation between their respective offices in the future. Furthermore, he made mention of the investigation launched by the European Ombudsman currently in office Ms. Emily O'Reilly into the exclusion of Hungarian university students and researchers from the Erasmus+ and Horizont programmes, highlighting that Teresa Anjinjo’s experience gained both as a member of the Supervisory Committee of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and the former Deputy Ombudsman of Portugal may mean a guarantee for the fair resolution of the situation of Hungarian university students and researchers, which counts as grave discrimination.
Hungarian university students and researchers were excluded from the Erasmus+ and Horizont programmes two years ago. The Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary asked the current European Ombudsman to launch an investigation into the reasons for, and the lawfulness of the exclusion of Hungarian university students and researchers from the Erasmus+ and Horizont programmes. Furthermore, he asked the European Ombudsman to consider, even before closing the investigations, the promotion of the dialogue between the parties with a view to finding a reassuring solution to the problem as soon as possible, and ensuring that Hungarian university students and researchers may fully use the opportunities offered by the Erasmus+ and Horizont programmes again, in the same way as the citizens of other EU member states.