The doctor of the Year in 2016, still remembers when he arrived to Hungary several years ago. He fell in love with Budapest at the first sight. His studies in Hungary changed his life completely. Tempus Public Foundation’s International Alumni Team had the opportunity to spend an afternoon with him at Gyula, where he lives and works. He talked about the beginnings, his job, community work even about his future plans.
Tempus Public Foundation relaunched its call for applications for foreign applicants to conduct short or long-term research in Hungarian higher education institutions or any research institutes in the academic year 2017-2018 within the framework of the Bilateral State Scholarships programme.
The delegation of Semmelweis University has visited two Chinese universities and also participated in a conference about Traditional Chinese Medicine. Our institution was represented by Dr. Zoltán Zsolt Nagy, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Dr. Marcel Pop, Director of International Relations. The major aim of their visit was the reinforcement of the current partnerships with Chinese institutions, the establishment of new research collaborations and the continuation of the previously started negotiations related to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) education. Dr. Yu Funian, a guest lecturer of the Faculty of Health Sciences and appointed commissioner of the TCM education of Heilongjiang University in Hungary as well as Dr. Xia Linyun, Teacher of TCM of the Faculty of Health Sciences also joined the delegation.
Semmelweis University is ranked as 301-400 according to the recent international ranking list prepared by Times Higher Education (THE) in the categories of both life sciences and clinical-, pre-clinical- and health sciences.
Tim Baas is a member of the International Alumni Network. He studied in Hungary with the Erasmus+ Programme, but his relationship with Hungary goes far beyond the Erasmus experience. We asked him about this special relationship with our country.