“It is always better to be sure that we cannot be harmed,
than to assume that no one wants to harm us.”
– Gyula Andrássy
The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), together with The Hungary Initiatives Foundation (HIF), is now accepting applications for the Andrássy National Security Fellowship - asix-month fellowship program aimed at cultivating the next generation of Hungarian strategic thinkers committed to strengthening ties between Hungary and the United States.
During their time in Washington, Andrássy Fellows will be paired with a specific CEPA program – Strategy and Statecraft, Strengthening Frontline Security, StratCom and Bolstering Atlanticism.
Fellows will have the opportunity to showcase their research findings via podcasts, expert roundtable discussions, and written policy briefs. Andrássy Fellows will participate in outreach to the U.S. policy and expert communities.
Fellows will also work with core CEPA staff on a full spectrum of think tank processes including, policy briefings, brainstorming sessions, networking, and program planning and administration. CEPA will provide a $3000 monthly stipend, cover roundtrip travel to Washington, D.C., and provide assistance for the Fellow’s visa application process.
On Tuesday 26th February, Dr Péter Földesi, Rector of Széchenyi István University and Dr Károly Jókay, Managing Director of the Fulbright Committee, signed a cooperation agreement. One of the principle goals of the collaboration is to invite lecturers and professors from the United States to be involved in the delivery of 24 new English-taught academic programmes to be launched in September 2019, within the University’s current internationalization drive.
ADMISSIONS NEWS interviewed Dr Péter Smuk PhD, Vice-Dean of the Deák Ferenc Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Head of the Department of Constitutional Law and Political Sciences and Professor who has been employed at Széchenyi István University since 2002.
Grants for the incorporation of postdoctoral research staff into the Catalan science and technology system, within the Beatriu de Pinós programme (BP 2018)
The purpose of the Beatriu de Pinós programme is to award individual grants for the employment and incorporation of postdoctoral research staff into the Catalan science and technology system.
The Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade (Külügyi és Külgazdasági Intézet, KKI/IFAT) invites applications for its 12-week research internship program for undergraduate, graduate and PhD students, as well as recent graduates, starting on March 4, 2019.
On 6 December 2018, with the support of the University Student Council and the Széchenyi István University and with the cooperation of the Erasmus Student Network (ESN), around 80 students took part in the closing event of the Autumn semester.
On Wednesday, 16th January, Széchenyi István University hosted this year’s Open Doors (Nyított Kapuk) Fair for prospective students. On an expanded site, in both the Aula and in the Lab Building, there were 32 booths and countless novelties. Altogether, there were over 5,000 visitors, with many more high school students, teachers and parents than last year showing interest in the opportunities offered by our expanding HEI.
Tóth Árpád is a project manager, PhD candidate on the SzEEDSM management programme, researcher and lecturer currently working and studying at Széchenyi István University, Győr.
Árpád graduated in Győr, completing both his Bachelors and Masters studies (the latter in Accounting and Finance) at Széchenyi, following this with a Law qualification (Law extended Economist, Finance and Economic Regulations) from ELTE.
Empowering Future Female Leaders to Change the World
Toptal® is awarding $10,000 and a year of mentorship to five future female leaders who want to change the world.
In September we posted an article about the new Budapest base for Széchenyi István University’s Doctoral School in Management.
Now the video of the opening ceremony is available with English subtitles.
Each year, the Tempus Public Foundation organizes a professional consultative meeting for the international affairs staff of Hungarian higher education institutions, where the focus is on current events, challenges, good practice and diverse aspects of the internationalization process of HEIs. This year from 14-16 November the University of Debrecen was host to the meeting with around 250 participants attending the event, including a team from Széchenyi István University’s Centre of International Programmes. This was the fifteenth occasion on which the meeting has been held. The central theme this year was the internationalization of institutions, that is student and teacher mobility, the reception of foreign scholarship holders and international cooperation between universities. Via lectures, workshops and interactive sessions, participants had the opportunity to become better informed about current issues surrounding all these topics.
The Bavarian Academic Center for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (BAYHOST) invites applications for its one-year scholarship program for students from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe for the academic year 2019/20 via BAYHOST. Graduates from Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine are eligible to apply.
In the framework of the countrywide Erasmus Days promotion, The Centre of International Programmes (CIP) at Széchenyi István University hosted an event designed to encourage greater interest in student mobility schemes for study and work experience abroad. Dr Eszter Lukács, Vice-Rector for Educational Affairs at SZE opened the event with a welcome speech to participants who were principally members of staff and lecturers at the University.
Under the auspices of the Austrian Embassy to Hungary and with the support of Advantage Austria, the official Foreign Trade promotion body, the Austrian Business Circle organized a workshop held on 28. September at the Danubius Hotel Helia, Budapest, on the theme Recommendations for training and in-service training programmes to ensure the supply of specialists to Austrian subsidiary companies operating in Hungary.
A BUDAPEST BASE FOR SZÉCHENYI ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY’S DOCTORAL SCHOOL IN MANAGEMENT
Call for proposals for International Scientific Workshop 2018 Autumn Term
The Scientific and Artistic Students’ Associations Conference 2018
07 November 2018
Application deadline: 17 October 2018
***UPDATED*** The application period is now closed. Thank you for all the applications.
The Scientific and Artistic Students’ Associations Committee of Széchenyi István University and the University Student Government invites all international students from all fields-Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Health Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts- to participate in The International Scientific Workshop 2018 as part of The Scientific and Artistic Students' Associations Conference 2018.
XI GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND X INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR OF THE COIMBRA GROUP OF BRAZILIAN UNIVERSITIES (CGBU)
“GLOBAL UNIVERSITIES IN THE 21st CENTURY: CHARACTERISTICS, TRENDS AND MAIN CHALLENGES”
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
24 – 27 September 2018
Széchenyi István University, Győr, was worthily represented at the Tenth International Seminar of the CGBU by members of the University’s senior management, senior academic staff and affiliate academics who delivered presentations in plenaries or parallel sessions.
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018, Széchenyi István University held a press conference on the theme of Internationalization, generating a future supply of lecturers, researchers, students and the development of knowledge and technology transfer as tools of smart specialization at Széchenyi István University, a major project within the framework of the EU’s Human Resources Development Operational Programme (EFOP).
The European Commission and the European Parliament regard it as important that its leaders and decision-makers are able to have a dialogue with citizens. To this end, Citizen Forums are organized. Such an event will take place on 8 October 2018 in Révkomárom. The event will be held in Hungarian and Slovak. The event will conclude with a buffet lunch for the participants.
A bus to the Forum will be organised.
If you wish to participate, please fill in the application form on the link below by 6 October 2018.
Please note that participation is free but available places are limited.
Contacts
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Var Square 2, H-9200 Mosonmagyarovar, Hungary