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Meet our alumni volunteers: Aidana Smagul

News · 12 Aug 2020

The time has come to introduce our international alumni volunteer team with 34 people from 17 countries speaking 23 different languages. In the first chapter of our volunteer series, you can read Aidana Smagul’s story from Kazakhstan! She studied in Hungary in 2017 at ELTE and now she’s an intern as a linguist at a Polish company.

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Meet our senior alumni – an interview with pianist Basak Dilara Özdemir-Lakatos

News · 7 Aug 2020

As the last part of our alumni interviews you can read the story of Basak Dilara Özdemir-Lakatos, who is a former student of Liszt Academy and a brilliant pianist and composer. She also works at the Hungarian State Opera, where she accompanies the ballet dancers on the piano. In this interview formerly made by the Tempus Public Foundation’s International Alumni Team she talked about the beginnings, the challenges and why she loves Hungary so much.

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Meet our Senior Alumni – An interview with paediatrician MD Abdulrahman Abdulrab Mohamed

News · 31 Jul 2020

Get inspired by the stories of our alumni! This time you can read a former interview with paediatrician MD Abdulrahman Abdulrab Mohamed, who was the doctor of the Year in 2016. He has been living in the Hungarian town, Gyula for more than 20 years now. He talked about the beginnings, his job, community work and the motivations that made him choose Hungary as his home country.

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Virtual tours of Budapest

News · 29 Jul 2020

Have you always intended to visit Budapest, the centre of Hungarian culture? Now you have the chance to explore the city and have your own Budapest experience even from home! If you are looking for intellectual journey during these times of closure, here we collected some online virtual tours of the best Hungarian museums that you can visit anytime, anywhere.

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Meet our Senior Alumni – An interview with Dr. Luis Fernando Murillo

News · 24 Jul 2020

Get inspired by the stories of our alumni! In the next few weeks you can read three interviews that were previously made with our senior alumni members. First meet Dr. Luis Fernando Murillo, a genuine world citizen, who lived, studied and taught in numerous countries all around the world. He found his home in Hungary as a professor and also as a Stipendium Hungaricum student at ELTE. The interview was made by our international alumni volunteer Zahar Akkad.

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Hungarian Universities Among the Bests

News · 22 Jul 2020

Seven Hungarian universities are listed on the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Ranking, which is one of the most influential university rankings in the world. On the list, which is led by MIT, Stanford and Harvard, the best positions amongst Hungarian universities were taken by the University of Szeged and the University of Debrecen. 

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Sour cherry – the taste of the summer

News · 15 Jul 2020

Small red berries hanging in bunches from the trees - cherry can surely be found in most gardens in Hungary. Growing from June to August, it is among the most popular fruits of the summer. This time the “Ingredient of the month” is the sour cherry. 
 

 

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