Mayor István Tarlós has received the Minister of Higher Education of Saudi Arabia

Mayor Tarlós has hosted a lunch in honour of H. E. Dr. Khalid Bin Mohammed Al Anqari, Minister of Higher Education of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, who has arrived to Hungary together with his delegation for three days.

The parties have discussed cooperation opportunities among universities, especially to increase the current number of those 300 Saudi students studying at national universities within the framework of a government scholarship programme. The Mayor and the Minister have then continued a discussion on opportunities for cultural cooperation and on the challenges of urbanisation.