Marta Korintus is the Director of Research at the National Institute for Family and Social Policy in Budapest, Hungary. She has been involved in work related to services for children under the age of 3 for more than 30 years. Her activities extended to producing guidelines for working with young children, developing curricula for training childcare workers and family day care providers, conducting surveys, evaluating services, promoting the diversification of existing childcare services, introducing new services, and monitoring all forms of childcare for under threes.