COURAGE

connecting collections

UHFS-MEFESZ, which was founded in Vaduz, Lichtenstein in 1957 and dissolved in Bern, Switzerland in 1967 was an organization representing some 7,000 Hungarian émigré students in 16 countries worldwide.
The Union of Free Hungarian Students was a federation of émigré student associations in various countries, with its coordinative central office in Bern, Switzerland: the “International Secretary,” was headed by the annually elected president of UFHS.

The Háttér Society (1995) is one of the largest Hungarian LMBT+ organizations, and it has been active in many fields: advocacy, lobbying, legal aid, and the maintenance of an archive and library, AIDS/HIV prevention, mental help. The organization systematically collects various kinds of materials relating to LMTB+ issues (articles, scientific texts, literature, movies, even the foundational documents of the first Hungarian LMBT+ organization, Homérosz, etc.). Given the absence of an organization or institution dedicated to homosexual issues during the socialist era, most of the materials preserved are from private collections. At the same time, this is also the biggest obstacle the archive faces, because in recent decades many private collections vanished after the owners died. Frequently, the heirs are not able to accept that the deceased, who was often a family member, was homosexual, so the Háttér Society’s requests for materials have been regularly refused.

ICUB - The Research Institute of the University of Bucharest is a newly established research institute, a research division of the University of Bucharest. Its mission is to promote excellence in research and to encourage international collaborations. ICUB is organized in four divisions: Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences; Exact Sciences; Humanities; Social Sciences. The Social Sciences Division aims to promote "smart" research, to build a state-of-the-art research infrastructure within our university and provide scientific evidence for public policy decisions. Our mission is to promote interdisciplinary and internationally-oriented research projects in such domains as law, public administration, business, sociology, political science, international relations, psychology, journalism and communication.

IHLIA LGBT Heritage (formerly known as International Homo/Lesbian Information Centre and Archive – IHLIA), is an international archive and documentation center on homosexuality, bisexuality and transgenderism. It collects, preserves and presents to the public all kinds of information in the field of LGBT. IHLIA curates the largest LGBT collection of Europe. ŠKUC LL's Lesbian Library and Archive donated copies and/or some surplus originals of its most important and representative documents, magazines and other materials that are part of its collections.