From March 18 to 22, 2019, the lecturers of the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the Institute of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Lviv Polytechnic made a working visit to Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic) and the University of Pannonia (Vespers, Hungary). It took place within the framework of the project «State policy on national minorities rights protection: experience of the Visegrad Group countries» (coordinator – IHSS Director, Professor Yaryna Turchyn), which is being implemented with the support of the International Visegrad Fund and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea.
The head of PSIR Department Professor Halyna Lutsyshyn, Associate Professors Uliana Ilnytska and Yurii Tyshkun and Assistant Marian Lopata met with Ph.D Ondřej Klípa, a lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague, who is an expert on the protection of the rights of national minorities in the Czech Republic. Interesting was the meeting with representatives of state authorities on national minorities in Prague, where, in particular, the policy of the Czech Republic and the European Union on the protection and support of national minorities was discussed. Also, Polytechnicians met with Michał Chrząstowski, Director of Polish Institute in Prague, Director of Polish Society in Prague, and visited the House of National Minorities in Prague.
Interesting and fruitful were the meetings with Dean of the Faculty of Modern Philology and Social Sciences of the University of Pannonia (Hungary), Professor Judith Navrachic, President of State Self-Government of Ukrainians of Hungary, Jurii Kravchenko, and Brigitte Superak, an official representative of the Ukrainian national minority in the Hungarian Parliament. There was a discussion of the problems and needs of the Ukrainian national minority in Hungary.