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.

Ambassador of the Republic of Kenya to Austria, Hungary and Slovakia Robinson Njeru Githae hosted a meeting with the delegation of the University of Sopron on 16 February 2022. The university was represented by Director of International Affairs Zoltán Szabó PhD MBA and Coordinator of International Affairs Ms. Barbara Lakatos.

The aim of our representatives was to introduce the University, with emphasis on the English-language study programmes available for Kenyan students. Another focal point was the Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship Programme.

This led to a prosperous conversation about the possibilites of further cooperation and expressed intentions from both parties to strenghten their relationship.

The INTI International University and the University of Sopron had an online meeting, where both institutions presented their education, research and service portfolio. Afterwards the potential mutual programs were discussed. They have also examined the possibility of the future cooperation and collaboration. The meeting was online, where Dr. Erzsébet Nedelka vice dean of the Alexandre Lamfalussy Faculty of Economics, Junkai Ma representative of the INTI University, Dr. Judit Pappné Vancsó and Dr. habil Zoltán Szabó Director of the International Affairs participated. The main topics were tourism, international economics and economical studies, where the relationship can be blooming and advantages between the two universities.