International Relations of the University of Pécs
The University of Pécs keeps expanding and improving its cooperation with other universities. It has numerous partnership agreements and intensive cooperation with remarkable universities of Europe, the United States of America and Asia.
The University has been offering study programmes in English for 25 years, and since then an increasing number of international students and researchers have come from over 80 countries to the University of Pécs to study and to conduct research every year.
Inter-university agreements
Inter-university agreements can be initiated by the management of the faculties or the university leadership. These agreements provide the framework for mutual visits, short term student, teacher or staff mobility, and joint research projects. We are running successful student exchange programmes with Japanese and Korean universities as well as with universities from the United States.
- Number of memorandums of understanding with Europe: 32
- Number of memorandums of understanding with USA:9
- Number of memorandums of understanding with Asia: 6
- Total number of the inter-university agreements is 50.
ERASMUS Programme
The University of Pécs is actively taking part in Europe's leading mobility initiative, the ERASMUS Programme. Currently in the 2009/2010 academic year we have 383 ERASMUS agreements which support the mobility of approximately 340 students of University of Pécs abroad as well as a number of teaching staff.
Statistical data of the academic year 2008-2009
| Incoming | Outgoing | |
| Students | 160 | 326 |
| Internship students | - | 39 |
| Teachers | 31 | 67 |
| Administrative staff | 1 | 16 |
The University of Pécs (UP) has participated in the Erasmus programme since 1998 with increasing intensity. The main aim is to provide specific academic and teaching opportunity to our students and professors to help them deepen their knowledge at partner institutions and work, study in an international environment. The UP is seeking partner institutions with similar structures, multidisciplinary education and research potentials. We evaluate international contacts by looking at the actually realized professional programmes and mobility. It is of high importance for our management to give opportunity for more and more students to be able to study abroad for at least one semester.
The University of Pécs plans to integrate more courses taught in foreign languages into the undergraduate studies. The University proposes agreements which realize the mobility in the student and teacher exchange in both directions. Our main strategy is to fulfil the requirements of the new programme of 2007-2013, to widen new possibilities and to extend cooperation to more areas with the existing partners. We are planning to welcome more and more students from the countries which recently became eligible. The most important benefit of the practical training is that the academic knowledge gained by the student at their home institutions can be realized in practice in an international environment with a positive impact on their future employment. In staff mobility we intend to include new university units.
Research
Outstanding research is pursued at all the ten faculties of the University of Pécs in a creative environment with significant novel results. We hope to reach nearly all the participants of the economic environment including enterprises, cooperation and research centres, potential partners for grant applications, researchers of other centres both in Hungary and abroad, leaders and scientists of partner universities. We are looking forward to tighten the relationship with research teams and researchers so that the utilisation of the intellectual values may bring profit, reasonable development and long-term co-operation for all participants.
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