Since then its home is the Palazzo Falconieri. Hungaro-French university informing office founded (from 1933 it was called Hungarian Study Centre of France)  1948 Institutes opened in Sofia and Warsaw  1949 Institute of Cultural Relations founded  1953 Institute opened in Prague  1973 Institute opened in East-Berlin (House of the Hungarian Culture)  1974 Institute opened in Cairo  1978 Institute opened in Delhi  1980 Institute opened in Helsinki  1990 Institutes opened in Stuttgart and Moscow  1991 Institute opened in Bratislava  1992 Institute opened in Bucharest  1992 Institute opened in Tallinn  1999 Institute opened in London  2001 Institute opened in New York City  2002 Renamed from Hungarian Cultural Institute to Balassi Institute  2004 Institute opened in Brussels  2006 Institute opened in Sfantu Gheorghe  2013 Institutes opened in Beijing and Istanbul  2014 Institute opened in Zagreb  2016 Institute opened in Ljubljana Since 2002 the headquarters of the Balassi Institute is located at Somlói út 51, Budapest. The first Hungarian institutes abroad, the so-called Collegium Hungaricum, were established by Kunó Klebelsberg (minister of culture at the time) in the 1920s in order to build relations with the international scientific community (in Vienna and Berlin in 1924, in Rome and Paris in 1927). Organising scientific life and education make up a fundamental part of the institutes’ activity even today. Apart from differences shaped by history, there are also variations in the scope of activities, services and equipment of the institutes. Some of them maintain libraries, Hungarian language teaching centers and galleries in addition to their primary work in culture, education and organising science. The Balassi Institute has 24 branches in 22 countries around the world:  Diplomats specialised in education and culture promote Hungarian culture and education in countries where no such institutional representation is ensured. Diplomats operate at the following foreign representations:  Joint institutes are independently functioning institutions abroad promoting Hungarian culture, involved in broadly defined Hungarian cultural diplomacy via partnership and joint institutional agreements with the Balassi Institute. The aim of establishing the network was to enhance cooperation between coexisting institutions and the Balassi Institute in order to reach their shared strategic goals. Henceforth, the Balassi Institute supports certain programs of member institutes as well as their cultural, scientific and educational projects and helps them build relations with private and public institutions in Hungary. Members of the Network:  The Institute, as a center for education and scientific cooperation, fulfills a supporting, coordinating and funding function in the international network of Hungarian Studies institutions and in the teaching of Hungarian as a foreign language.