The official opening of the European Capital of Culture (ECoC) programme year starts days before the grand launch event, so it's worth arriving in the region early.

The journal Filológia.hu announces a special issue on mobile communication (mobile phone, smartphone). http://www.filologia.hu/ is the online journal of the Modern Philological Society of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

The National Tourism Meeting of Universities and Colleges (EFOTT for short) is a summer music festival founded in 1976 and is one of Hungary's traditional festivals.