ELTE Institute of Romance Studies
Since its establishment in 2001, the Institute of Romance Studies has been the foremost academic center for Romance research and education in Hungary. The Institute comprises the following long‑established academic departments: Department of French Language and Literature, Department of Italian Language and Literature, Department of Portuguese Language and Literature, Department of Romanian Philology, Department of Spanish Language and Literature. Education in the departments is conducted in the target language.
Currently, the Institute serves nearly 450 students and is supported by 50 staff members.
Research
The departmental units host a variety of teaching and research projects. Notably, the Academic Publishing House (Akadémiai Kiadó) has produced new French–Hungarian and Spanish–Hungarian, as well as Hungarian–Spanish, compact and mid‑sized dictionaries, alongside numerous other linguistic and lexicographical publications. Faculty members across all departments actively participate in the Institute’s planned projects, spanning fields such as literary studies, linguistics, and professional methodology.
Doctoral Studies
Following structural reforms in doctoral education and degree programs, the Institute hosted doctoral schools offering both linguistics and literary studies programs. After the reorganization and reaccreditation of the PhD programs, these are now continuously administered through the ELTE Faculty of Humanities’ Doctoral School of Linguistics and Doctoral School of Literary Studies. Many of the enrolled and graduated postgraduate students serve as young instructors and researchers at universities and colleges in cities such as Budapest, Debrecen, Piliscsaba, Szeged, Veszprém, Eger, Nyíregyháza, Pécs, Szombathely, and Székesfehérvár.
International Relations
The Institute’s departments maintain close, decades‑long partnerships with universities in France, Italy, Portugal, Romania, and Spain (including institutions in Paris, Rome, Madrid, Porto, Bucharest, etc.), as well as with relevant cultural institutes in Budapest. These collaborations have been further strengthened by increasingly active and extensive Erasmus agreements in recent years.