JSC «S.Seifullin Kazakh Agro Technical University» and University of Sopron Faculty of Forestry have been cooperating in the field of education, research and innovation with the aim of expanding and strengthening the relationship between the scientific communities in both countries, supporting scientific exchanges between research groups since 2011. Exchange of lecturers and PhD students, joint scientific and research activities have been planned and realized within the partnership. We were pleased to host Karshyga Turlybekov, an enthusiastic and hard-working PhD student from our partner university from January 28 - February 23, 2022.

On the 22nd of February 2022 the representatives of the University of Sopron made a visit to the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Hungary. The aim of the meeting was to strengthen the relationship and make ourselves more visible in the name of internationalisation. The Ambassador, Tahir Taghi-Zadeh and Samir Musayev, the Consul warmly welcomed our delegates Dr. habil. Zoltán Szabó, Director of International Affairs and Ms Barbara Lakatos, Coordinator of International Affairs, and discussed the Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship in details and also the English study programmes offered for students from Azerbaijan.

The fruitful meeting implied that we will invite the Ambassador in the fall semester as well, when the Department of International Affairs plan to welcome about 16 partner Embassies.

It is also appropriate to say that the cooperation can be even more successful after a meeting and discussion like this, because the better understanding can lead to better communication and preferable relationship.

On the 21st of February a virtual meeting was organised by the Hungarian Rector’s Conference on Academic Cooperation.

The University of Sopron participated on the online meeting about the possible cooperation between the Palestenian and the Hungarian Universities. Our university was represented by Prof. Dr. Ferenc Lakatos vice-rector, Dr. habil. Zoltán Szabó Director of International Affairs, and Ms Boróka Buzsáki International Coordinator. The 2-hours meeting gave the chance for all 10 participating Universities to introduce their study and research programs, and also meet the interested institutions from the Palestenian side. It was a prosperous meeting since we have already contacted one of the members inquiring about Tourism related programs and also applied arts.
The future collaboration started today, but it will imply a lot of discussions, further meetings and work until the agreements can born between Hungarian and Palestinian Universities.

On the 17th of February, 2022 we have attended an online fair in Africa for the first time of this year. Hungary was represented only by the University of Sopron. Our booth was in a very good place in the online space, we had a lot of inquirer. The University was represented by Ms Boróka Buzsáki, who had the opportunity to keep two 15-minute presentations about the University, the student life, the city and of course, about the study programs available for the potential international students. From the approximately 40 people who contacted us on the chat-box, we have already gained 10 direct email requests on the same day.
The experience and the contact list acquired through the online fair will help to build stronger relationship amongst the African countries and the University of Sopron, and also made our visibility vigorous.