By 2026, Hungary had become a defining centre of the region in the scientific research and education of animal protection, the University of Veterinary Medicine stated in a press release sent to MTI on Monday. According to the press release, the system connecting multiple universities and scientific disciplines is a professional hungaricum, in which the interconnected training programmes, research infrastructure, scientific journal, and scholarship system form a continuously expanding scientific ecosystem for animal protection. They highlighted, among other things, the institutional collaboration between veterinary science and legal science, the postgraduate training specialisations in animal protection and animal welfare, and the establishment of the region’s first interdisciplinary, bilingual scientific journal on animal protection. The university also established a scholarship system to support the next generation of researchers. Applications for the scholarship call announced by the Közös ügyünk az Állatvédelem Alapítvány for postgraduate training at six partner institutions can still be submitted on Tuesday and Wednesday, the press release noted.