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Why do we travel? What does traveling give us? How does it affect our work and career as journalists? What does it mean to be internationally connected as a journalist? What do international Hungarian connections mean? This paper attempts to discuss these questions among others, from a perspective of a young, aspiring journalist, who had just stepped into the realm of international cooperation in media. Through my experiences and the lessons I’ve learned, the paper also sheds light on the benefits of seizing the opportunity that Erasmus programmes give to university students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Planning is a social activity which aims at creating better places for communities. Participatory and communicative planning is gaining ground also in Romania, and there is plenty of research on the theory, practice, and ideology of planning regarding the involvement of the public, but there is a need to understand if there are language barriers here which might represent a bottleneck for linguistic minorities. The paper discusses this latter issue in the case of Romania’s design, town planning, and strategic planning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gyu la Szép is the director of the Hungarian Opera of Cluj and one of the people with the deepest knowledge on the topic of Hungarian musical life in Romania. His account of the opera production of the Hungarian minority of Romania first presents the prestigious past of this genre in Transylvania, which obliges the artists working today to do their best. Then he also discusses in detail the problems of the present. The opera director considers it especially important that the best contemporary opera works are present in their repertoire. Szép looks forward to the future of the institution, seen as an era marked by a growing number of quality performances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]