Budapesti Műszaki Egyetem - Egyetemi Értesítő, 1988
1988 / 18. szám
27 4. A university is the trustee of the European humanist tradition; its constant care is to attain universal knowledge ; to fulfil its vocation it transcends geographical and political frontiers, and affirms the vital need for different cultures to know and influence each other. The means To attain these goals by following such principles calls for effective means, suitable to present conditions. 1. To preserve freedom in research and teaching, the instruments appropriate to realize that freedom must be made available to all members of the university community. 2. Recruitment of teachers, and regulation of their status, must obey the principle that research is inseparable from teaching . 3. Each university must - with due allowance for particular circumstances - ensure that its students' freedoms are safeguarded, and that they enjoy conditions in which they can acquire the culture and training which it is their purpose to possess. 4. Universities - particularly in Europe - regard the mutual exchange of information and documentation , and frequent joint projects for the advancement of learning, as essential to the steady progress of knowledge.
