The visit of the ABRUEM (Associação Brasileira dos Reitores das Universidades Estaduais e Municipais) delegation to Hungary was organized Hungarian Rectors’ Conference. The members of the association that represents 46 universities paid a visit to Dunaújváros as well.

 

On Wednesday management and directors of institutes of our university received the delegation of 22 members consisting of rectors and vice-rectors of Brazilian institutions. Our rector, Dr. habil István András greeted the guests then dr. Mónika Rajcsányi-Molnár, vice-rector held a presentation in which she introduced our university. Then Aldo Nelson Bona, president of ABRUEM explained that the intention of their visit was to seek for new bilateral cooperation in Hungary that would allow them to start common projects in the area of education and research development. The association that currently counts 46 public universities has together more than 900.000 students.

 

 

The connection that binds the University of Dunaújváros together with the South-American country is not new at all. Our institution welcome 69 students between 2013 and 2015 for part-time studies thanks to the Science Without Borders scholarship. It is an integral part of the internationalization to establish and efficiently maintain connection with South-American, especially to Brazilian partners. Within the framework of our International Campus project ever since 2015 we are actively building our relationships outside of Europe as well, and for now we have 8 Brazilian higher-educational institutions among our partners. With them we seek opportunities for student and lecturer exchanges and for elaborated researches. With the university UNIS Educational Group located in Varginha for example we successfully handed in our common application for the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility programme. Within two years 3 students and 12 staff mobilities were carried out between the institutions.

 

 

Based on the International Campus project our university has started its own scholarship programme called “Study and More” that provides students with the opportunity of spending a semester at the University of Dunaújváros for free. Thanks to this possibility we could welcome 15 students form 4 different partner universities from Brazil and we expect other 4 students in the upcoming semester too.

On 22 June, the University of Dunaújváros held its graduation ceremony, where among others, 35 international students received their diploma.

 

 


In his speach, Dr. habil. István András, Rector of UOD  congratulated all graduates and expressed his hopes that beside the theoretical and practical knowledge they have studied, they also could gather unforgettable experiences and memories, and ensured that the doors of UOD are allways open to former students as well.

On behalf of the international students, a graduate from the Mechanical Engineering master program, Yassine Chahboub from Morocco said goodbye to the university by holding the following farewell speach:

"Jó napot! Good Morning,

Respected Rector, Teachers, Parents,

I want to welcome you all to this wondrous event celebrating our graduation ceremony.
I am honored to deliver this speech on behalf of the international students.
The University of Dunaújváros was the best choice for us to continue our studies and to be the first step towards our professional career.


The University of Dunaujvaros was not just a place where we registered ourselves in different lectures and exams but it was a place where we met new friends and together we built a strong bond through our social relations.
Saying goodbye is not an easy thing for any of us, and knowing that today will be our last day in the university gives the same painful feeling as when we left our homeland.
We would like to thank all our professors for their kindness and availability during good times and bad times.
The international office with all its wonderful and compassionate members, who helped us to get easily integrated in the society, they were always available and kind - answering our questions and solving our problems was their priority
We will never forget the memories that we had during the trips and events organized by the university.
Thanks also to the student office for their continuous efforts.
We will forever be grateful to the university for pointing us in the right direction towards the path of success.
Our adventure starts today…
Thank you all! Köszönöm!"

Congratulations to all our fresh graduates!

 

University of Dunaújváros has launched its project called HASIT five years ago that aims to reduce the drop-out rate of students. This semester was closed with a conference.

The conference was opened by Dr. habil András István the rector of the university followed by the speech of Dr. Solti Péter the president of Klebelsberg Center.

Six lectures was presented on the conference:

  • The Student Support Program (HASIT) in Support of Tertiary Structural Transformation (Dr. habil Rajcsányi-Molnár Mónika, Educational and General Rector-deputy, DUE)
  • The renewing of the AVATAR-project (Verasztó Sándor, DUE)
  • Personal-based career orientation guidance (Dr. László Balázs TTI Institute Director, College Professor, DUE)
  • The impact of the students' living conditions on the success of the study (Duráczky Bálint, HÖOK)
  • In-entry competence measurement at the first year students of the University of Neumann János (Dr. Török Erika Deputy Dean of Education, Neumann János University GAMF Faculty)
  • VR Learning - education interestingly, memorably, and effectively (Dr. Horváth Ildikó Associate Professor, VR Center Director, Széchenyi István University)

 

 

The conference was closed by dr. Szabó Csilla Marianna, project manager of HASIT project and head of University of Dunaújváros’ Teacher Training Center, who thanked the work of the lecturers and the developers of HASIT.

The event was followed by a press conference held by Dr. habil Rajcsányi-Molnár Mónika and Dr. Szabó Csilla Marianna.

As we learned from Dr. Rajcsányi-Molnár Mónika the University achieved big successes in keeping students and supporting them in their studies. It was raised the attention of several other home institution as well as some foreign institutions, so that they have started their mission that aims introducing HASIT to other institutions.

Dr. Szabó Csilla Marianna explained that the AVATAR project has went through several changes. Through several projects they tried to help students in gaining admission to higher education and in successful positioning on the labor market after completing their studies.

At the press conference it was also mentioned that they consider strengthening internal communication extremely important, so that they created the HASIT prize, which is awarded each year in the best performing student, educator and specialist category.

Plans include creating photo walls and floor matrices what physically displays the program in the university area.

 

University of Dunaújváros does not forget about its alumni, in the middle of May we had our annual Alma Mater meeting.

 

Each year former students of the institution are welcome to return to their Alma Mater (Latin phrase for university or college), so old friends can reunite and remember the years spent together. This year’s event was special as every tradition keeper were invited to attend the meeting not only those who graduated 10-20-30-40 years ago.

The registration for the event was started at the building „A”. At the same time, a Beer Garden was opened at the Campus. Nearly 450 people attended the Meeting this year. After the successful registration, Krisztina Lászlóné Kenyeres the University’s Director of Education officially opened the event. The opening speech was followed by the dinner. Short after dinner at 18.00 the official ceremony of tradition keepers (called „Szakestély”) has started what was opened by Dr. Kiss Endre’s speech.

 

The ceremony had a good atmosphere, enormous space of the gym was filled with the sound of the traditional Selmec songs sung by attendants. The organizers hope that every attendant had a great time. See you in 2019 as well.

More than 50 students participated this year at the Science Day, the scientific competition organised each year at the University of Dunaújváros.

Participants of the Science Day conference held on 16 May 2018 at the university of Dunaújváros could listen to 52 papers presented by 66 UOD students in 7 different sessions. 

Many international students joined the competition, in the fields of Social Sciences 2 sessions were organised for their presentations. Foreign students participated in the Engineering Sciences Session as well with great success. For the third year in a row a Doctorand Session was organised as well, in cooperation with the Doctoral School of the University of Pécs.

 

Prize winning international students and their tutors:

Social Sciences Session 1.

  • 1st place: Aicha Hajoui Taalibi: Communicating emotions in a film
    Tutor: Dr. Orsolya Falus
  • 2nd place: Lama Aldayoub Hassan: The art of reviewing, reacting, and interacting with art works
    Tutor: Dr. Orsolya Falus
  • 3rd place: Leila Ben Salem–Wasim Ben Abdalla: The other side of travelling
    Tutor: Dr. Orsolya Falus
  • 3rd place: Wenting Song–Hajar Bichri: Sign language
    Tutor: Dr. Orsolya Falus

 Social Sciences Session 2.

  • 1st place: Marina Sukhinina: Strategy of development niche business startup
    Tutor: Csilla Fejes
  • 2nd place: Firuza Alizada–Guljan Ismayilzada: How to grow in different industries
    Tutor: Csilla Fejes
  • 3rd place: Shapal Hasan: The future expectancies of inventions
    Tutor: Ibolya Szalai

Engineering Sciences Session

  • 1st place: Amanuel Mekonnen–Elias Attallah: Research proposal on ‘Thermionic power generator’
    Tutor: Dr. Endre Kiss
  • 2nd place: László Koroknai: Optical Schlieren System
    Tutor: Dr. Endre Kiss
  • 3rd place: Ibrahim Rihani–Jamal Karmuoual: Using rich carbon pellet producing and development of biomass burner
    Tutor: Dr. Endre Kiss

  Congratulations to all prize winning students and their tutors!

 

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Eighteen guests from eight countries visited the University of Dunaújváros to exchange professional experience.

This is the first time that the University of Dunaújváros organized an international staff week. Due to the higher number of partnerships signed in the past years, the number of requests for Erasmus related visits coming from our international partners has also increased. Our aim was to provide a well-organized eventful opportunity for staff members who are working on the internationalization at one of the partner universities to exchange experiments and discuss good practices they gathered via workflows.

 

The event also helps participants to deepen their intercultural communication skills and knowledge.  Our visitors arrived from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Poland, Russia, Tunisia, and Ukraine. At the event, those partner universities of the University of Dunaújváros represented themselves who are cooperating in the Erasmus + KA103 project or in KA107 international credit mobility programme. The rules and regulations of Erasmus + provide the opportunity for higher-educational institutions carrying out student, staff and lecturer’s mobility for education and training through its resources.

On the very first day our guests took part on an official ceremony where Ms. Mónika Rajcsányi-Molnár, the vice-rector for general and academic affairs and Ms. Katalin Gyöngyössy head of the international relations office greeted them. The usual guided tour around the city and the university’s campus could not miss from the schedule of activities.

 

Of course besides the fun activities that were typical for most parts of the week, it involved some working as well. On the section meetings that took place on two days. After their registration four different topics were given to the staff members and all participants were kindly asked to prepare and hold a 10-15 minute-long presentation concerning their institution. We were interested in how the different institutions try to make for example the student life more colorful, what methods they use to help integration, how they can motivate alumni students or how they tend to cooperate with the industrial sector. The official language of the workshops were English.

 

An excursion around the Lake Balaton was also part of the official programme, where they could explore one of the most beautiful part of the country, Veszprém and Tihany.  Also on Thursday the whole group of participants travelled to a nearby village, to Kishantos for a nice checkpoint team building that gave the opportunity for everybody to get to know each other better. Shooting with a bow, using a traditional whip, solving puzzles and quizzes. At the end of the day not just the best teams were rewarded but everybody got a small present for taking part in the activities.

 

Altogether it is safe to say, that we had a vivid and busy five days that was indeed beneficial not just for the guests, but for the representatives of the University of Dunaújváros too. We look forward to meeting everyone next year too.