Crossing Borders in Education: Information Flow in the Hungarian-Romanian Border Region
Crossing Borders in Education: Information Flow in the Hungarian-Romanian Border Region

Summary/Abstract: The authors focus on the cross-border elements of education in the Hungarian-Romanian border region. The levels of primary and secondary as well as of the higher education are studied. The complexity of the topic may be approached from various aspects whose most important factors include the institutional, integrational and territorial co-operations (research centres, euroregional working committees, school alliances, etc.). The formal communication between the various levels and the great variety of institutions are determined by the communication between the nation states and territorial co-operations. The informal forms of communication are more likely to be met on the level of the actors and participants (teachers, students, etc.). The analysis of the number and ratio of students from the areas outside the borders of Hungary (concentrating on Romania) allows for conclusions depending on the nature of the potentials to communicate (starting with the opening of borders up to the common EU membership). The changes in the migration patterns with educational purposes after the millennium also reflect the changes in communication. In addition to taking account of the cross-border institutions serving educational purposes, the paper also intends to give an insight into the formal and informal types of communication in the higher education (concentrating on the University of Debrecen and the University of Oradea). This includes the analysis of the data of the two universities about the co-operations provided by the freemover and Erasmus students.

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