Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén said the Hungarian government is expanding its remembrance education program to take all Hungarian school students to a historic national memorial site at least once.
The Deputy PM added that the initiative would reach some 78,000-80,000 students in the 7-11th grade, in some 3,000 classes, who will visit one of 47 national memorial sites.
The 1 billion forint (EUR 2.5m) scheme which brings together history lessons, good practices of teaching remembrance at the historic sites and team building in classes will be reviewed after a year. If successful, the government will pursue it further, he added.