Good examples from the practices of Hungarian higher education institutions.What can ensure the international competitiveness of Hungarian higher education? How can you ensure students flexible and innovative teaching and learning methods? How can they acquire skills which make them suitable for practicing their profession at high standards and for active social engagement? These are the questions to which the projects applying for the ‘Award for the International Development of Higher Education’ and its winners gave various answers.
The award seeks to recognise achievements of national or even international significance reached at an institutional level in the field of internationalisation through staff initiatives, as well as to disseminate to best practices developed. In 2017, the Award for the International Development of Higher Education was awarded for innovative teaching and learning organisation methods providing student-oriented, flexible learning paths.
Through its diverse activity, the project implemented by Prof. Dr. László Rosivall at Semmelweis University has brought Hungarian nephrology back to the international scene, to which the Hungarian Kidney Foundation founded by him, the Budapest Nephrology School, the summer university which has been organised for 20 years with the involvement of world famous lecturers and attracting nearly 2,000 students from 65 countries, as well as the accreditation of the Ph.D. programme in nephrology all contributed. The primary goals of the implementation were the high standards of professionality, learning by teaching and international experience exchange; there were, however, other aspects which were given importance, too, such as equal opportunity, supporting Roma medical students or introducing medical sign language.
Special Award: Budapest School of Nephrology – implemented by Prof. Dr. László Rosivall
At the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Debrecen, the cooperation between Dr. Tamás Juhász, Dr. Péter Szücs and Dr. Attila Balogh led to a good example for the methodological use of a modern ICT tool, the spherical scanner. The images of anatomical dissections taken with the tool are available in an international database for practising Hungarian and international doctors, students and teachers, too, allowing mutual learning and professional experience exchange at a global level. A great advantage of the method is that, while in use, it produces a constantly developing and growing online curriculum which, at the same time, also offers students an opportunity for international publication, thus further enhancing the reputation of the university.
The innovative use of ICT tools and programmes in higher education category using the 4D Anatomy platform in teaching anatomy – implemented by Dr. Tamás Juhász, Dr. Péter Szücs, Dr. Attila Balogh
The two projects implemented by the Institute for Medical Language and Communication at the University of Pécs Medical School in cooperation with doctors and actors won a combined award. They were seeking a solution to how to involve the increased number of foreign medical students in joint projects with their Hungarian peers, thus improving their language and intercultural skills and increasing their motivation and knowledge. One solution was to establish the trilingual demonstrator's system, in which a Hungarian student helps foreign students to communicate with patients. The other one is a unique method relying on the involvement of actors in the practical training of medical students, acting out typical doctor-and-patient, as well as doctor-and-relative situations. Thus, aspiring doctors can master the necessary professional skills and behaviour among safe circumstances.
The Pécs Model of teaching languages for medical purposes – Trilingual Demonstrator System at the Medical School of the University of Pécs; implemented by Renáta Halász, Dr. Ágnes Koppán, Dr. Katalin Eklicsné Lepenye, Dr. Anikó Hambuchné Kőhalmi, Dr. Judit Sebők, Dr. Gergő A. Molnár
SzimMedKom – Educational Model for Simulational Medical Communication with Actor-Patients; implemented by Dr. Ágnes Koppán, Dr. Katalin Eklicsné Lepenye, Renáta Halász, Dr. Judit Sebők, Dr. Gergő Molnár, Dr. Szilárd Rendeki, Dr. Zsuzsanna Németh, Dr. Eszter Szemán, Dr. Gábor Rébék-Nagy
As a postdoc at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Anna Losonczi, teacher at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, seeks to help students of architecture and design to use the latest research findings of environmental psychology in their creative designer work. The best practice increases students' awareness; by analysing research theories at seminars, they learn how their work will affect users, and they can continuously develop their works according to the goal they have set and with a teacher’s assistance. The method creates a multidisciplinary harmony of research and education, and makes scientific research available and digestible for students.
Connecting Scientific Research and Creative Activity in Designer Training; implemented by Dr. Anna Losonczi
The project, implemented by staff members of Simonyi Business and Economic Development Center at the University of Pécs, Faculty of Business and Economy, seeks to engage students in real professional tasks and market situations, thus offering them complex skills development. The students involved can also participate in a global challenge at an international video pitch competition. Besides students of business and economy, the programme is also open to students of other faculties.
SIP-IPV – Enterprising University. Global Classrooms in the Service of Business Education; implemented by
Dr. Csapi Vivien, Dr. Bedő Zsolt, Dr. Vivien Csapi, Dr. Zsolt Bedő
As part of the best practice introduced with the involvement of students, two professors at the Department of Plant Science and Biotechnology of the University of Pannonia, Georgikon Faculty, Dr. Zoltán Alföldi and Dr. Judit Bódis developed a complex skills development programme at various educational levels under the banner of sustainability. They link various subject groups together, thus promoting a system approach among students, and they provide them with complex knowledge through fieldwork and research camps. The Land and Man club for teachers and students, open both to laymen and the representatives of the profession in the region, the Back to the Roots secondary school programme, as well as the training programme designed to support kindergarten and school teachers in environmental education are also good examples for the university's regional engagement.
Don’t Wait for Captain Planet - Be the Everyday Hero of Sustainability, implemented by Dr. Zoltán Alföldi, Dr. Judit Bódis, Előd Búzás, Éva Szabó
Besides engaging its students in complex and practical projects using ICT tools, the project implemented by the Institute for Disability and Social Participation at Eötvös Loránd University, Bárczi Gusztáv Faculty of Special Needs Education, represents an innovative approach to promoting the participation of students and teachers with special needs – in this case, disabilities – in higher education. The people with disabilities assume a teaching role at the seminars, but they also participate in the implementation of the projects along with the students. Their involvement and preparation therefor is unique in Hungarian higher education. The programme can have diverse uses and be adapted not only to people-related fields of science, but it also greatly contributes to the sensitisation of students and teachers in higher education and every area of society.
“Together We Teach!” – inclusive educational methods in higher education; implemented by Zsuzsanna Anta , András Futár, Csilla Cserti-Szauer, Dániel Csángó, Péter Horváth, Vanda Katona, Zoltán Kollár, Krisztián Kolonics, Zsuzsanna Kunt, Anikó Sándor, Károly Tóth
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