Elections 2023
1. Background information relevant to profession.
Gábor Móczár has an M.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering and a B.A. in cultural management. Following 10 intense years in the energy industry he devoted his attention to culture and music and became a cultural manager specialized in international relations, arts networks, events and educational projects. He was Vice President and later President of the European Choral Association – Europa Cantat (2009-2018) and since 2012 he is active as Board member of the International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM). Between 2002 and 2021 he was active as Deputy Mayor for culture, education and community building in the City Council of his home village Telki, near Budapest.
Since March 2021 he has been working as General Director of the National Heritage Institute of Hungary where beyond the management of three historic cemeteries, the virtual National Graveyard of 6000 protected graves and the network of 83 National and Historic Memorials throughout the country, he is focusing on the development and promotion of new projects in order to enhance on educating the next generations and making this remarkable asset of national memorial sites more visible to the entire society.
He speaks, reads and writes fluent English, German and Italian, and has a good intermediate knowledge of French and Russian.
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Gábor Móczár
Hungary
Budapest
National Heritage Institute
General Director
Elections 2023
2. What motivates you to be a part of Steering committee?
Throughout the past 15 years I spent on Boards of international NGOs I have developed a strong conviction that organizations like our ASCE offer a vast opportunity of sharing experience, knowledge and various manners of managing challenges.
We come from different cultures of Europe but still sharing and enjoying common roots - with a well organised exchange of practices we can strengthen together these fundaments, whilst we may learn from each other and offer assistance to other members who might be in need.
I believe we have a wide range of ways to share the manner of decent remembrance and also to share our European heritage that points to our rich past – disseminating all this on the European level is a very important inspirition that drives me duting my everyday work.
Working on the Steering Committee may offer to me a deeper involvement in our organisation, with more opportunity of working actively for our joint success.
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Gábor Móczár
Hungary
Budapest
National Heritage Institute
General Director
Elections 2023
3. How can you help develop ASCE?
Working on the Steering Committee of ASCE I would like to come up with new ideas, help with my managerial and community buiding skills, and use my knowledge in enhancing on communication and in raising funds. I can also offer my experience in organising AGMs, including new ways on involving present and potential future members in a more active way.
I can offer also the infrastructure of our Institute, through the capacity and available funds for travelling into new countries to explore, and also by the work of our professional staff in terms of contact management and data handling at our secretariat, cemetery management, funerary profession, communication and event organisation.
I would also like to help and assist the region of Central-Eastern Europe I’m coming from, also by using my network in the field of choral music in 18 countries of the region.
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Gábor Móczár
Hungary
Budapest
National Heritage Institute
General Director
Elections 2023
4. How do you plan to manage and encourage members of the region to participate?
As written on the previous slide I am ready to help and assist with our staff at the National Heritage Institute the region of Central-Eastern Europe I’m coming from, also by using my network in the field of choral music in 18 countries of the region.
Personal meeting and explanation is utmost important, therefore I am ready and capable to travel in these countries following having explored potential contacts through the network of Hungarian Cultural Institutes and Embassies.
Following having presented ASCE at these meetings and having invited them to AGMs of ASCE furthermore to regional meetings we could organise in Hungary or other more active countries in the region, we could achieve a kind of regional/local exchange of information and experience.
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Gábor Móczár
Hungary
Budapest
National Heritage Institute
General Director