Graduation is always a milestone event in the life of a university student. Especially when he or she spent years in a foreign country pursuing the dream to become a researcher or to have a great career. Therefore, it is definitely something that is worth to celebrate. But how about an opportunity where these students cannot only celebrate with their university fellows, but with students from other Hungarian universities? This is one of the key elements and aims of the Stipendium Hungaricum Farewell party organized by the Tempus Public Foundation.
In June 2018, the 3rd farewell event will be organized for students with the goal to give them a platform for networking, mingle and of course to get to know the Alumni Hungary Network and become active members of the international alumni community. The foundation organized the first party in 2016 with about 30 guests, where the participants got to spend an afternoon on the Danube river in the frame of a boat trip. Among presentations about the network, we had personal conversations too with the students about their motivations and plans.
Now in 2018, we plan to invite 70 people to this event and of course our concept have transformed too during the 3 years. We moved from frontal presentations to a more active, participation-based structure, where students can have real conversations with each other. We strive to provide an informal platform for broadening the graduate’s personal network and developing their carrier. Students will have the opportunity to participate in different workshops such as career and networking tips, find out more about the knowledge of public diplomacy and they will be able to share their ongoing or planned projects with the others for further cooperation or just to promote these ideas. However, there will be less formal programmes too, for example short video interviews, photo shooting and other fun activities where participants can get to know each other in a more personal way.
This event is not just important for the students but also for the Alumni Hungary Team, because so we have the chance to meet our future members in person and not just in the online world. We can recruit alumni volunteers and answer all the questions personally, related to alumni relations.
We also plan to continue this tradition in the next years always keeping in mind, what could be the best and most useful for our members and hopefully our event will get bigger and bigger every year.
(Important notice: this farewell party is only open for the graduate Stipendium Hungaricum students of Hungarian universities through direct invitation. Thank you for your understanding! Are you one of them? Find our invitation in your inbox and hurry up to secure your seat!)
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