www.elte.hu/en
WITH SEVEN SESSIONS
Botanical Garden • Career Centre• Disability
• International Office • Library • Sport Facilities • Technology Transfer and Innovation Management
17-21 June 2013
Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)
Being the leading research university in Hungary, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (ELTE) serves the interests of high quality education and cutting-edge research with the conviction that neither can exist without the other. Therefore, all our educational programmes implement the latest research achievements. ELTE is one of the most internationalized institutions in Hungary with about 420 bilateral agreements (including 361 Erasmus partner universities), 824 Erasmus contracts, and a number of university network memberships. To ELTE, profiting from such an international environment means to design the highest academic standard educational programmes, with our educational and industrial partners. This philosophy of co- operation assures that the degrees issued by ELTE are accepted around the globe and ELTE graduates are on steady demand on the labour market. In the field of scientific and research activities, ELTE successfully joins European Union programmes. Since its foundation in 1635, it has significantly contributed to the development of scientific knowledge as well as the
enrichment and utilisation of scientific knowledge for the benefit of mankind.
Website: http://www.elte.hu/en
Budapest, the capital city of Hungary
Budapest, the capital of Hungary, has a rich and fascinating history and a vibrant cultural heritage.
A huge part of the City is under the protection of UNESCO’s World Cultural Heritage, many of which are the must-see attractions along the banks of the River Danube and the buildings along Andrássy Avenue. Budapest is officially named “The City of Spas” because there is no such place in the world, where there are two dozens of bath and 13 spas in the capital. The City is divided by the River Danube but connected by numerous, beautifully sculpted and lighted bridges. Nature-lovers are served even
E ra sm us S ta ff W ee k
in the heart of the vivid City by the slopes of Gellért Hill and the parks of Margaret Island, situated on the River Danube. What regards culture, Budapest offers endless opportunities to visitors, let the choice be music, folk, dance, art, exhibition, or built heritage. Each place has its own character, let it be a small cellar or an open air theatre, an operetta ship or a rock-pop-punk ship, a neo-classical style art gallery, a ruin pub, or a contemporary cultural centre.
What makes Budapest unique? Its culture and heritage, which gain power from the rich and colourful past, give birth to and happily host modern and contemporary in the present, and direct towards an exciting future. This City has a lot to show and tell you, but you have to be here to see and listen to her.
About the Erasmus Staff Week
The one-week intensive training program focusing on internationalisation in higher education has been designed not only for international officers, but also for higher education staff from the following professional fields of the University:
• Botanical Garden
• Career Centre
• Disability
• International Office
• Library
• Sport Facilities
• Technology Transfer and Innovation Management We would like to invite experts and colleagues from the above-mentioned departments to exchange new ideas, to share best practices, and to build new professional networks. During the five-day program, all participants attend programs together (three days) and they also take part in activities and intensive discussions with colleagues in their own sessions (two days).
Planned number of participants:
Only a limited number of participants can be accepted.
As we would like to assure the most international atmosphere, we accept a maximum of two participants from one institution.
Working language:English
Venue: various locations at Eötvös Loránd University
Registration: The program is free of charge, but the costs of travel, accommodation, and meals need to be covered by the participants.
Please note that participants need to apply for Erasmus Staff Mobility Grant at their home university.
Application deadline: 10 May 2013 (Friday)
Please fill in the application form (downloadable from www.elte.hu/en/admin_mobility) and send it back to
erasmus@elte.hu no later than 10 May 2013 (application deadline).
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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Day 1 Introduction Day
17 June • Eötvös Loránd University
Monday • Central International Office
• Faculty International Offices
• Introduction of guests
• Crash course in Hungarian
Day 2 Campus Tour
18 June • Tour No. 1 “Walk of Truth & Knowledge”: Rector’s Office, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences,
Tuesday University Library
• Tour No. 2 “Walk of Wisdom & Arts”: Faculty of Humanities
• Tour No. 3 “Walk of Science & Technology”: Lágymányos Campus: Faculty of Science, Faculty of Informatics, Faculty of Social Sciences
Days 3-4 Professional programs: sessions & workshops 19-20 June Session 1: Botanical Garden
Wednesday-Thursday • Introduction of the ELTE Botanical Garden (results of the total reconstruction and new plants)
• Possibilities of a botanical garden’s economy, event organization in the garden
• Particular tropical plants and their multiplications
• Possibilities of collaboration in the ex-situ program of protected and endangered species
• Meeting with colleagues from other botanical gardens in Hungary and organizing a trip to other interesting botanical gardens in Hungary
Session 2: Career Centre
• Internships
• Employability; preparing students for the labour market
• Company cooperations
• Quality issues
• Best practices
• Professional development Session 3: Disability coordinators
• Inclusive policies of the universities
• Fostering mobility of students, teachers, and staff with disability Session 4: Sport
• Degree programs for students in the field of sport (Sport Manager; Recreation and Health Improvement Manager)
• University sport life and recreation
• University Sport Club
• Development plans Session 5: International Office
• Mobility programs (students, teachers, researchers, and administrative staff)
• Joint-degree programs
• Bilateral agreements and cooperations
• Short programs (Summer University, Staff Training)
• International communication
• Erasmus For All (2013-2020): strategic partnership, orientation programs, intercultural preparation for outgoing students, language preparation, mentor system, and housing
Session 6: Library – Central Library and Faculty Libraries
(possible working languages: German, English, French, and Polish)
• History of the University Library
• Services
• Collections
• Management and maintenance during the economic crisis – problems and problem-solving
• The University Library Network
• Library Tour
• Visit to the Faculty Libraries
Session 7: Technology Transfer and Innovation Management
• Introduction to the university’s technology transfer process and the background of the innovation management, which is provided by the Technology Transfer Office
• Introduction to recent inventions within the frame of visiting laboratories at the Faculty of Science
• Sharing best practices
Day 5 Follow-up and cultural program
21 June Picnic and follow-up at the Botanical Garden
Friday Cultural program
Department of International Education and Mobility, Rector’s Office, Eötvös Loránd University Ms. Ágnes Székely, Institutional Erasmus coordinator
H – 1056 Budapest, Szerb utca 21-23. • T: + 36 1 411 6543; F: + 36 1 411 6538; E: erasmus@elte.hu; W: www.elte.hu/en/admin_mobility
