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More than two hundred surgeries are performed in Hungary every year to correct the developmental disorder known as the funnel chest that affects every six thousandth child. Recently, a process with 3D printing has been developed in Pécs, with the cooperation of doctors, engineers, 3D designers and metalworking professionals. The University of Pécs made an interview with thoracic surgeon Dr Zalán Szántó who invented the new method that has a huge opportunity in surgical procedures.

The time has come to introduce our international alumni volunteer team with 34 people from 17 countries speaking 23 different languages. In the second chapter of our volunteer series, you can read Mirhadi Samidzada’s story from Azerbaijan! He studied in Hungary in 2017 at Károli Gáspár University and now he is a lawyer in a Bridge Group of Companies!

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.

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.

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.

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. 

Alumni Network Hungary offers you a wide range of services that will help you to achieve your career goals or to prepare for further studies. Develop your skills and learn the tricks of successful networking and career building with the help of our experts, alumni and tutors.

Tivadar Vida, professor of archaeology at Eötvös Loránd University, is one of the principal investigators of the research project exploring the early medieval population of Europe, which won a grant of €10 million.

Five Hungarian universities are involved as full partners in the newly established European Universities Initiative, said Lászlo Palkovics, the minister of innovation and technology.