Between the 5th and 8th March, 2018 a delegation from the University of Dunaújváros has visited two of our Erasmus+ partner institution in the north.
Beside Dr. habil István András Rector and dr. habil Mónika Rajcsányi-Molnár, Vice-Rector of Academic and General Affairs the assistants from the Rector’s Office and colleagues from the International Relations Office represented the University of Dunaújváros.
The main aim of visiting our partner institution in Katowice was to make our cooperation more fruitful, especially to strengthen the collaboration with the Faculty of Computer Science and Materials Science in Chorzów and Sosnowiec. We had the chance to introduce the University of Dunaújváros and get to know more about the University of Silesia as well. We hope that the number of the student and staff Erasmus+ mobilities between the two institutions will be growing in the near future.
The representatives of the International Relations Office also continued their journey to our other Polish Erasmus+ partner institution, the Jan Amos Komenski State School of Higher Vocational Education in Leszno. The main goal of the meetings was to check out and negotiate the current ongoing projects and put down further cooperation possibilities in the higher-education and seek for other opportunities for the two twin towns, Dunaújváros and Leszno.
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The University of Dunaújváros has been visited by the Wenjing College, Yantai Unviersity from China on the 23rd of January.
The delegation of five arrived to our city as a counter-visit after last year a delegation of our university have visited their campus.
During the introduction Mr. Liu Kongqing, Assistan Dean; Mr. Han Shaoming, Dean; Mr. Gao Zhaolong, Director of Administration Office; Mr. Liu Jiaguang Dean; Mr. Liang Xiaojing, German teacher saw a presentation about the UOD and they also saw our new teaser video. The guest were welcomed by Dr. habil Mónika Rajcsányi-Molnár, Vice-Rector of Academic and General Affairs, Dr. Csilla Szabó, Head of the Teacher Training Center and Mrs. Katalin Gyöngyössy, Head of the International Office.
After the meeting the delegation took a campus tour and visited the laboratories and facilites of the UOD.
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It is a tradition now that the University of Dunaújváros keeps good connection with Chinese Higher Education Institutions thanks to our long time partner, the Bejing L&J Education Tecnology Co. and it's manager, Mr. Jing Wang.
Now a new partnership arises as a delegation from the Guizhou University of Finance and Economics have visited our campus on the 30th of November.
The delegation, led by Prof. Yang Yong, Vice President proposed that they will send their students to the UOD in the frame of the Chinese Government Scholarship programme. This could be the first time for the UOD to participate in China's most important study abroad programme. They were also interested to join the UOD's popular Final Year programme.
From Hungarian side, Dr. habil. Mónika Rajcsányi-Molnár Vice President of the University of Dunaújváros offered a cooperation in the frame of Erasmus + KA 107 programme to exchange students and lectureres.
After the meeting the delegation have visited the campus of the UOD with the Hungarian colleagues.
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The Week of Science has become one of the most important event in the life of the University of Dunaújváros, our international conference annually offers a variety of programmes related to the educational portfolio of the institution started from the 13th of November .
Beside the Hungarian participants the UOD also received 25 foreign visitors from six countries and eight different institutions. The program started with the HASIT 3.0 conference: all the participants could get more information about the UOD's unique programme. The HASIT project aims to reduce the student drop-out rate with a more efficient support system.
On day two, the Scientific Student Conference had it's annual sections: the young researchers made exciting presentations about their topics both in Hungarian and English language. In the audience there were many representatives of different companies as on this same day a Carrier Expo was also organised by the UOD.
As the University of Dunaújváros puts more and more focus on the discipline of renewable energy and electric cars a "Green Day" was organised on Wednesday. During the exhibition new technologies were introduced and the guests, students and lecturers could try many of them.
On Thursday started the East-West Cohesion conference: a scientifice meeting of the University of Dunaújváros decicated to bring the lecturers of our partner universities closer. In three different section the guest explained their research topics than many discussion started between the professors and experts adding their own knowledge to the topic.
As an additional results to the Week of Science, new partnership agreements were signed between the Ural State University of Economics and the University of Dunaújváros. Moreover the Polish delegation started multi-level cooperations with us.
The list of International guests:
Azerbaijan State University of Economics: Leyla Hajiyeva, Zumrud Najafova
Unis Educational Group: Dr. Wanderson Gomes, Eduardo Duffles Reis, Dr. Déborah Reis Alvarenga Romano, Dr. Gládis Camarini
Ural Federal Univerity: Dr. Eduard Patrakov, Dr. Aleksandr Zhilin
Ural State University of Economics: Prof. Sergey Rogozhin, Mariana Vidrevich
Jan Amos Komenski PWSZ Leszno: Mikolaj Zgainski, Janusz Pola, Prof. Piotr Jozwiak
Municupality of Leszno: Magdalene Urbaniak, Krystian Mackowiak, Jakub Schwarz,
Leszno Futsal Club: Pawel Mrozkowiak
Poznan University of Technology: Marian Joskó
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Foreign student participation at the Week of Science
The different student competitions can be considered among the highlights of the annually organized Week of Science program series of the University of Dunaújváros. This year’s events were special, as not only the Hungarian students, but the international students of our university participated actively in the competitions.
In the Communication and Media Section of the Scientific Student Conference held on the 14th November every presentation that we could watch and listen to was a very-well prepared, splendid presentation having interesting topics, such as for example the „Robots Nowadays”, the „Abstract Art in Scientific Eyes”, the „Mental programming and Culture”and the „Media Communication”.
Tawanda Gabriel Masaka (from Zimbabwe) won the first prize of that section with his presentation titled as „The Emergence of Humans and Machines”, the presentation of Lama Aldayoub (from Syria) proved to be the second best and Kseniia Kitral (from Ukraine) was awarded on the third place.
The presentation with the title „Mental Programming and Culture” made by Aicha Hajoui Taalibi and Hajar Bichri (Morocco) received Special Awards on the basis of the decision of the jury.
The following international students gave great presentations in the section as well:
Leila Ben Salem (Tunisia), Shabal Hasan (Syria), Han Jing (China), Yang Yuxin (China), Fadıl Yiǧit (Turkey), Gudrat Habibli (Azerbaijan).
In the Engineering Section two of the presentations were held by international students. Michael Jason Elisabeth from the Seychelles introduced his research done on „Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet Surface Treatment of Soda-lime Glass: Effects of Nitrogen Plasma Treatment” and won the first prize of the section. Based on his owned measurements, Yassine Chahboub (from Morocco) held a presentation about the „Homoganization and Application Areas of Aluminium Alloys”.
In addition to the Scientific Student Conference several competitions were organized for the students of the University of Dunaújváros. This year a team of international students participated in the Spaghetti Bridge Building Competition as well. The three team members, Ema Basovic (Serbia), Yassine Chahboub (Morocco) and El Khalil Chiliah (Morocco) gave the symbolic name of „International Bridge” to their creation and their achievement was recognized by the Special Award of the competition.
Congratulations to all international participants of the Week of Science!
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A long time cooperation between the Jan Amos Comenski Institution and the University of Dunaújváros reached new heights during the East-West Cohesion conference of the UoD, on the 16th and 17th of October.
While the main goal of the prestigous delegation from Leszno was the visit of the University, cooperation agreements were signed on multi-levels.
From the Polish university, Phd. Janusz Pola Chancellor, Prof. Slawomir Stepien, Director of Polytechnic Faculty and Mikolaj Zgainski, Head of International Relations Office signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Dr. István András, Rector and Dr. Miklós Horváth, Head of the Institute of Engineering to strengthen the student mobilites between the two institutions.
With the leadership of Piotr Jozwiak, Vice-mayor of Leszno, Krystian Mackowiak, Councilman of Leszno and Magdalena Urbaniak, International Cooperation Coordinator of Leszno, the delegation had a meeting with Gábor Cserna, Mayor of Dunaújváros, István Gombos, Vice-mayor of Dunaújváros, László Hingyi, Councilman of Dunaújváros and Ewa Modrzejewska, Chairwoman of the Polish Minority Municipality of Dunaújváros. This event was a second-step in the establishment process of the sister-city partnership. The polish delegation visited the Bartók Theatre and the Intercisa Museum as well.
A new Memorandum of Understanding was also signed by Pawel Mrozkowiak, President of the Leszno Futsal Club and Zoltán Zemanko, Secretary General of the DUE DSE Futsal Club. The aim of the agreement to visit each other and organise common training-camps and matches.
Photos: Jakub Schwarz
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