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This article delves into the dynamics of the "model change" within the Hungarian higher education during the covid-19 crisis, focusing on grassroots reactions in the University of Pécs. Amid pandemic-related restrictions, the study reveals how online platforms fostered collective action, allowing stakeholders discuss and voice concerns this change. The analysis uncovers a pattern where representative leadership sidelined democratic decision-making, indicating a disconnection between representation and accountability. Rooted in historical relational patterns and prevailing political culture, this detachment highlights the need for improved mechanisms of accountability. By presenting a participatory action research, the study underscores the transformative role of grassroots communities and trade unions in advocating collective interests and values. The paper emphasizes that online platforms, while promoting accessibility and pluralism, need to address the quality of participation. Overall, the research contributes to the complexities of decision-making in higher education transitions and the challenges of representation and accountability.

Foster care institutions are badly understaffed and operate on the lowest expected standards in terms of human resources in Hungary. In many cases, child protection personnel working with children in foster care do not have the necessary qualifications, and even those that do are often so overloaded with tasks that they cannot routinely engage in meaningful social interactions with the children. This paper introduces a unique and easily adaptable model of volunteer ,,work in university settings that aims to improve the situation of children in foster care. The Students for Children Volunteer Programme was founded in 2010 in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pécs, Hungary, and is now part of the curriculum there both as an elective course and as a cross-faculty programme. From the outset, the primary goal of this initiative has been to improve the situation of children in foster care through student mentoring by empowering them to manage everyday challenges and develop meaningful perspectives on their futures. Other equally important objectives are to enhance students' social sensitivity and skills and to shape their thinking through this challenging work. Since its inception, the programme has been operating with unbroken success and, over the years, nearly 400 volunteers have completed the programme. The long-term plan is that through this model a country-wide network of similar volunteer programmes can be developed to improve the situation of children in need. Although aspects of the Students for Children programme still need to be refined, our experience with it shows that it has invaluable social, educational, and psychological effects on both the children and the future law professionals.

Einführung in die Themen der Ausstellung durch das kuratorische Team: Das Büro trafo.K gibt einen Überblick über die sieben Ausstellungskapitel; Wissenschaftliche Artikel: Renommierte WissenschafterInnen beleuchten die 70er im Rahmen der Ausstellungskapitel; Debattenräume: Kulturvermittlung direkt aus der Ausstellung heraus: KünstlerInnen präsentieren ihren Debattenraum; Interviews mit prominenten ZeitzeugInnen: Im Gespräch mit Adolf Holl, Sarah Wiener, Wolfgang Petritsch, Herbert Prohaska, Pavel Kohout, Käthe Sasso, Freda Meissner-Blau, Daniel Spoerri; Erzählungen aus dem Alltag in den 70ern: Zeitzeugen wie du und ich: Wie weit das Politische in das Private eindringen konnte, erzählt etwa die 1949 geborene Pensionistin Anne Kroneberger, die in der DDR aufgewachsen war, dort zu Spitzeltätigkeiten gezwungen wurde und auch nach ihrer Flucht Richtung Österreich weiter spitzeln sollte: "(...) Ich habe nur zum Schein eingewilligt, weil ich glaubte, in Österreich eh meine Ruhe vor denen zu haben, bis sie mich eines Tages in Amstetten am Kirchplatz in ein Auto zerrten und drohten, mich von meinen Kindern zu trennen und in die DDR rückzuführen, sollte ich nicht kooperieren. Ich schrie aus Leibeskräften, rief nach der Polizei. Bis sie mich aus dem Auto warfen." ; Chronik: Ein Überblick über die 70er: Kurator Hannes Etzlstorfer fasst die wichtigsten Ereignisse der 70er zusammen