TEMA+ Erasmus Mundus Master's Programme

The conference report of the TEMA+ Milestone Conference 2023 is now available on the wesbite of the ELTE Faculty of Humanities: https://btk.elte.hu/en/content/cultural-heritage-in-focus.t.8528 The Consortium would like to thank to the authors, the members of the Organising Committee and to all contributors and participants to our student and alumni conference. It was such an honour and pleasure to meet all of you to celebrate the past 12 years of the programme. Thank you!

Cultural heritage in focus Report on the closing

During the first 3 sessions of the conference, we had the honour to listen to the newest research results of our recently graduated students and Alumni. Many of them are now excellent professors at prestigious universities in Europe and overseas, including Yale University, Northeastern London and Université de Bourgogne.

Prof. Gábor Sonkoly, Scientific Coordinator of the TEMA+ Consortium and Prof. Péter Erdősi, Associate professor of Atelier, ELTE BTK, Budapest are opening the conference with a presentation on European Territories perceived by TEMA and TEMA+ programmes by sharing interesting information and statistics on the past 9 student editions!

The TEMA+ Milestone Conference 2023 on European Territories: Identity, Heritage and Development student and Alumni conference has just kicked off in Budapest at the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University to celebrate the past 12 years of the TEMA and TEMA+ Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Programme. We are grateful for all the professional and personal experiences on which we are ready to reflect on during the next 3 days. Enjoy the conference!

Dear TEMA and TEMA+ Students and Alumni!
The application deadline for the TEMA+ Milestone Conference has been extended until 19 February 2023!

The TEMA+ Consortium formed by the Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France), the University of Catania (Catania, Italy), Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) and University of Laval, Québec is pleased to invite you to the TEMA+ Milestone Conference on European Territories: Identity, Heritage and Development (Budapest, 14 – 16 July, 2023).

This call addresses students and alumni of the TEMA European Master Course on European Territories (Civilisation, Nation, Region, City): Identity and Development (2011-2017) and TEMA+ European Territories: Heritage and Development Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree programmes (2017-2023).

The Consortium and its partners invite both researchers and practitioners who are related or work in the field of the two programmes’ key themes and will be reflecting on the importance of cultural heritage, identity and development in contemporary culture on global, European, national, regional and local scales. Students and alumni who do not wish to give a presentation are also welcome to apply as participants in the Alumni Knowledge and Experience roundtable discussion or just as conference attendees.

During the conference, formal presentations (max 20 min. long presentations) will be combined with a round table discussion, where participants will be sharing their knowledge, work and career related experiences on real-world transition practices in the field of academia, research and job market (short presentations).

This event is also designed to celebrate the 10th graduation anniversary of the first student edition and to maintain or regain contact with alumni who have graduated from the two study programmes. This will also be an excellent opportunity for networking with all students, alumni and professors of the TEMA community.

Special focus should be given to the three main topics of the conference sessions:
• Territories and Identity
• Territories and Cultural Heritage
• Territories and Development
The final session titles might be subject to change and parallel sessions might be organized pending the submitted student and alumni applications.
Application procedure:

1. For submitting your application as a conference speaker (20 minutes):
1. Please fill the online application form on this link (https://forms.gle/H8Q5e1LS2vZ9gn7x9) by 19 February 2023 to inform the organisers about your intention to participate,
2. Send an abstract of your presentation (max 450 words in English or in French) and your CV via email to Mrs. Lilla Zámbó ([email protected]) by 19 February 2023. Please, indicate your affiliation and which session topic is of specific interest for you.
3. Selected conference speakers must send their full papers by 31 May 2023. Conference proceedings will be published after the conference.

2. For submitting your application as a participant of the Alumni Knowledge and Experience roundtable discussion:
1. Please fill the online application form on this link (https://forms.gle/H8Q5e1LS2vZ9gn7x9) by 19 February 2023 to inform the organisers about your intention to participate,
2. Send a letter of motivation (max 300 words in English or French) and your CV via email to Mrs Lilla Zámbó ([email protected]) by 19 February 2023. Please, describe your study and professional experiences after your TEMA programme, current affiliation with a brief illustration of the topic and experience you would like to share during a short presentation (max 8 min./participant).

3. For submitting your application as a conference attendee:
1. Please fill the online application form on this link (https://forms.gle/H8Q5e1LS2vZ9gn7x9) by 31 March 2023 to inform the organisers about your intention to participate.

The organisers screen all proposals and selects the applicants to participate in the conference as speakers, round-table participants with or without financial support. If required, additional materials/documents for selecting the application might be subsequently requested. All information, material and data provided by students and alumni will be treated confidentially, according to the GDPR regulations.

In order to facilitate a flawless organization of your conference participation, please use consistently one e-mail-address for communicating with the conference team at [email protected].

Notification of acceptance to the Conference:

Participants will be selected for the respective conference sessions and the round-table discussion by a board of reviewers of the partner institutions coordinated by the TEMA+ Pedagogic Council, based on the submitted applications. Selected participants will receive a notification of acceptance to the conference by 28 February 2023. Full papers must be sent until 31 May 2023. Non-selected applicants will also be able to participate on the conference as attendees.

Costs and Funding:

No conference fee is charged. Selected conference speakers and round-table discussion participants can apply for full or partial funding for their travel and accommodation costs during the conference by sending a bursary application to the organisers. The bursaries will be selected by the Management Committee, comprising representatives of the partner universities, including coordinators, professors, students and alumni.

The bursary application request consists of the following documents that must be filled or sent to Mrs Lilla Zámbó ([email protected]) by 19 February 2023:
- The online application form (to be filled)
- Short CV (to be sent)
- Motivation letter in English or in French (max. 450 words) for requesting funding. Please, describe your current affiliation, conditions (if you have a paid full-time post or not), your travel plans (distance to travel for the conference) and if you have any other possibilities for getting a fund.

The priority will be given to students and young alumni scholars who live farer from the conference venue and who have no grants or other financial support which would be able to pay the costs for them. If required, additional materials/documents for selecting the application might be subsequently requested.

Further Information and Contact Details:

Please find up-to-date information about the conference on the website of the TEMA+ programme www.mastertema.eu. If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via email at [email protected].

Join us in Budapest next summer and let us celebrate and share what TEMA has given to us!

Prof. Gábor Sonkoly and Lilla Zámbó
on behalf of the organisers and the TEMA+ Consortium

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An Eminent Historian, Founder member of the TEMA+ Consortium and Professor of the Institute of World History, CUFA, Luďa Klusáková Passed Away.

With deep regret, we announce that in the early morning on 8 April 2020, our beloved colleague and TEMA+ Scientific Coordinator, Prof. PhDr. Luďa Klusáková, CSc. passed away after a severe illness. She worked at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, for more than 40 years and her endeavour significantly contributed to the forming of the Institute of World History, its scientific and pedagogical accomplishments and expansion of international contacts.

Prof. Klusáková graduated from two programmes, History and French, at CUFA. Briefly, she worked as a research assistant at Archive of Charles University; from 1978 until the present, she worked at CUFA. In 2000, she became the director of Seminary of World and Comparative History. She was expertly focused on the comparative study of cities’ modernization, their image in culture, and the use of cultural heritage and history as a strategy of local and regional development.

She contributed to the Institute’s engagement in eminent European research and educational projects, for example, our TEMA and TEMA+ (European Territories: Heritage and Development) Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree programmes. The French Government awarded her with the Order of Merit in Education, Science and Culture Chevalier de l´ordre des palmes académiques. Between 2010-2012, she was the President of the European Association for Urban History. In 2019, she was appointed the Foreign Member of Finnish Academy of Sciences for her exceptional scientific merits.

She was a person that with her unceasing energy repeatedly proved her research and organizational abilities, yet at the same time, she maintained a human and helpful approach to her colleagues and also students. She is dearly missed by all members of the TEMA+ programme, her students, the faculty, academia, and by many foreign colleagues from all over the world, with whom she actively cooperated.

Without her, the TEMA and TEMA+ programmes would not have been possible.

Her memory and legacy will live on forever in our lives and in our hearts.

Prof. Gábor Sonkoly, DSc
TEMA+ Scientific Manager
on behalf of all members of the TEMA(+) Consortium and programme