The Alumni Hungary team organized its 1st alumni meeting in India on 3rd September. The team met wonderful alumni members in Delhi at the Royal Plaza Hotel.
Graduation doesn’t mean the end of Hungarian experience, it lasts a lifetime. An alumni meeting is always a good idea to come together with familiar faces or new people to bring up old memories.
Before the alumni meeting, the Study in Hungary team held its Indo-Hungarian Higher Education Forum to strengthen the inter-institutional cooperation among Indian and Hungarian higher education institutions. This way it was great, that not only alumni members, but representatives of Hungarian higher education institutions could attend the event.
The official Alumni Meeting started after the Indo-Hungarian Higher Education Forum. At the beginning, Ms. Eszter Végh gave a presentation about the Alumni Hungary Network. She talked about the everyday work of the network and emphasized the advantages of alumni membership. All the participants had the chance to learn more about the ways they could cooperate with the network and build up a strong, well-functioning and active local alumni chapter. Mr. Ayaz Shaikh, a former Stipendium Hungaricum scholar holder from India, now a PhD student at University of Debrecen joined the meeting via video call. He introduced his award winning innovation project launched in Hungary, called the Mrida project. Mrida is a social business venture focused on building sustainable and scalable business models aimed at holistic rural development at the bottom. They working for R&D to prepare a new range of “free from” cookies with a focus on gluten-q-free, dairy free, egg-free and sugar-free products, from different kind of millets, amaranth & pre-mixes. The speciality of the products is that they are suitable for people with high food intolerances. Mr. Shaikh’s presentation was very successful among the participants as the audience had many questions which may lead to future cooperation as well. Alumni members also liked the quiz about Hungary so they could test their knowledge in an informal way and by filling in correctly the quiz, they got the chance to win some Hungarian souvenirs. After the official programme, guests had time for informal networking.
The Alumni Hungary team wish to continue this international alumni meeting series in the future in many various countries around the world.
