Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, launched the Erasmus+ programme on the 12th of March 2014 in Budapest, on the opening conference organized by Tempus Public Foundation and the National Institute of Family and Social Policy. The conference was opened by Mr. Zoltán Balog, Minister of Human Resources. A welcome note was given by Péter Tordai, Director of Tempus Public Foundation, and Gergely Máté, deputy director of the Youth in Action Programme Office of the National Institute of Family and Social Policy.