The Hungarian visitors included Rector Attila Miseta, Vice-Rector for General Affairs, Connections and Strategic Affairs József Bethlehem, director of the International Centre István Tarrósy, and deputy director of the International Centre Péter Árvái. They had the opportunity to tour several of MU’s cutting-edge facilities: the University Campus Bohunice, the Simulation Centre of the Faculty of Medicine (SIMU), the CEITEC and RECETOX research centres, and the laboratories at the Faculty of Sports Studies.
During its two-day visit, the delegation also met with MU Rector Martin Bareš, Vice-rector for Internationalization Břetislav Dančák, director of the Centre for International Cooperation Jan Pavlík, and various deans and vice-deans, who presented each of MU’s nine faculties to the Hungarian partners.
“We are very happy that we could welcome such a rare visit to MU and show them around our faculties and research centres. We have collaborated with the University of Pécs for many years; among other things, we offer with them the joint study programme Europe from the Visegrad Perspective. I firmly believe that our cooperation will deepen in the future and that thanks to the EDUC Alliance we will open other joint study programmes,” said MU Vice-rector for Internationalization Břetislav Dančák.
The EDUC Alliance, which comprises six European universities from France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, was established in 2019 and is part of a prestigious network of European alliances financed by the European Union meant to create a more integrated higher education ecosystem in Europe and to compete with universities in the English-speaking world and beyond. There are a total of 41 such alliances in Europe; each concentrates on achieving different goals.
All EDUC activities centre mainly around providing students with an international education through various learning formats, from classic student exchanges to virtual mobility. The alliance has given birth to dozens of international virtual and hybrid courses that MU students can enrol in free of charge and get credit for. Thanks to these international courses, students can not only expand their knowledge but can also get to know their peers from different countries and experience an international learning environment without leaving Brno.
