About the Janusz Korczak Workshop 

The Korczak workshop of the Hungarian Pedagogic Society was re-formed in October 2004. Meetings: 	13th October 
		3rd December 
		18th February 

Fifteen people take part in the work of the committee. 

Main aims:
-	to increase the publicity of Korczak’s pedagogic system and ideas 
-	to establish contact with Korczak societies abroad 
-	to translate Korczak’s works into Hungarian 
-	to establish contact with Korczakianum 

These aims practically mean a lot of different tasks. These aims concern college students, pedagogues and educators primarily. We asked the pedagogy departments of universities whether Korczak is mentioned in their work. We received three replies. Only two of these were yes, which arrived from Miskolc and the Kodolányi College. 
We attempt to gain publicity so our re-formation was reported in Köznevelés (Public Education) and an article was published about the French Korczak Society too.
Our invitation for applications was also published in the same review. We established contacts with the Polish departments of Hungarian universities. This is how we came across Gergely Farkas who wrote his thesis about Korczak and his career. At present he is translating it into Hungarian and we intend to publish it. 
We established connection with the Polish Institute and wrote a letter to the Ambassador. We would like to organize an international Korczak conference for which we need financial resources, therefore we have to compete. 
We find it essential to initiate the translation of Korczak’s works into Hungarian. When we succeed in this, staging plays and script-reading evenings can also take place. We also plan to create a website. 

18th March 2005 

Mária Simon Ph.D. 

www.korczak.iweb.hu
simon.mari@gmail.com
mpt@index.hu