The Bálványos Free Summer University and Student Camp (Hungarian: Bálványosi Nyári Szabadegyetem és Diáktábor; Romanian: Universitatea de Vară și Tabăra Studențească „Bálványos”; commonly known as the Tusványos Festival or just Tusványos) is a large-scale intellectual workshop of the Carpathian Basin held annually in Băile Tușnad, Romania (Hungarian: Tusnádfürdő).
The early camps were attended by several high-ranking politicians both from Romania (such as Emil Constantinescu, Traian Băsescu, Adrian Severin) and Hungary, and it was well received by both communities.
Around 2000, it started turning from a political workshop into a student summer camp; some critics consider that to have a negative effect on the event.
[4] Around 2010, a new transformation took place: the Viktor Orbán regime from Hungary became heavily involved by using the summer university to exhibit the politics of Fidesz.
Many politicians refused invitations for the fear of being stigmatised[5] and disapproved of the event because they considered that used to be a dialogue has turned instead into a monologue by the Hungarian side.