Student-businessmen's visit to Brussels

The YBP is organized every year by the Calasanctius Scholarship Foundation and aims to guide the students into the business world. The programme lasts one week and the teams have to prepare and present a feasible business plan.

The ten year old YBP hold one week long business training programmes for high-school students in Budapest and Miercurea Ciuc, and for high-school and first year university students in Berehove, Ukraine. The winners of the contest were the guests of MEP Csaba Sógor in the Brussels, where they commemorated the Hungarian Revolution of 1848-49 along with the Hungarian Delegation to the EP and the local Hungarian community.

„I consider YBP to be an extraordinary programme, because it prepares future generations for the challenges of the modern world while passing onto them the Christian set of values. It is a great joy for me to have winners from the Ukrainian Subcarpathia as my guests. Through the visit and the joint commemoration we can symbolically contribute to the reunification of the Hungarian nation in the Carpathian Basin” – said the MEP.

The YBP is a part of the Calasanctius Training Program (CTP) established in 1994 in the USA in order to aid young Hungarians with their studies there. The program has already made studying abroad available to more than 150 students; forty of them have obtained higher level diplomas. The training programme focuses on the fields of business, communication, health care and social sciences. The program has since expanded and now has a scholarship fund and an alumni group. Their motto, “Earn a lot, live with moderation and give back a lot!”, stresses the importance of volunteering and social involvement, so the graduating students carry with them the notion of social responsibility when they return. The CTP alumni founded the YBP in 2000 in order for the students that had received the scholarship to be able to give back some of their knowledge and wealth to those in need.