Practical placements, alternative training in Hungary

History (second half of XXth century)

· Before 1990. State owned economy. Practical work - mainly low efficacy physical work (students, professors).

· 1990ties. Decline. Period of the transition, privatization.

· Today. Economic growth. Increase (in general in the economy - higher education relations based partly on the new EU and the old Hungarian experience)

Scenario - typical for the Central-Eastern European countries. Moment to recreate the new economy - education links.

Practical placements in Hungary (cont.)

Legal, financial conditions

· Requirement of Qualification. Common, special elements. (Technological /engineering/ programs: common - at least 12 week practical placement, no special).

· New law - professional education tax. Reduction of some costs of the enterprises - longer than 8 weeks.

Current situation:

· Only some educational institutions - together with enterprises.

· Laboratory.

· No placement at all.

Practical placements in Hungary (cont.)

Main Activities of the TEMPUS 13352/98 projecte.

· Feb, 99. Current state of art. Conference at Seregélyes (H). Participants: consortium members, representatives of enterprises, of other higher educational institutions, of governmental bodies.

· March, 99. Creation of Alternating Engineering Training Office at International Education Center of BUTE (staff recruitment, basic documentation, equipment).

· Apr, 99. Creation of networks (academic - faculty representatives, university tutors; industrial - human resource managers, industrial tutors).

· Apr, 99. Detailed documentation (first variant of materials: general information, for university, enterprise, student, tutor).

· May, 99. Training of industrial specialists by CNAM, Ingénieurs 2000 in Paris (F).

· June, 99. Training of academic specialists by CNAM, Ingénieurs 2000 in Paris (F).

· Aug, 99. Presentation at ICEE 99. Beginning of the extension toward Central-Eastern Europe.

· Nov, 99. Presentation, extension to the Hungarian higher education at Vasszécsény (H).

· Dec, 99. Legal condition of the new training on university level.

· Jan, 00. German experience, investigation of foreign industrial placements at the Hannover (D) meeting.

· May, 00. Presentation, extension to Central-Eastern European universities at the conference in Visegrad (H). Documentation in English, French, German.

· June, 00. Presentation, extension to Hungarian enterprises, discussion of the financial conditions. Seregélyes (H).

· Aug, 00. Presentation at ICEE 2000.

· October 7-9, 00. Budapest. ”COOPERATION FOR HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT IN THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES FOR THE EUROPEAN INTEGRATION" CONFERENCE OF THE NTI AND DE NETWORKS. Extension.

· October 21-25, 00. Bordeaux. Final Consortium meeting.

· December 8-10, 00. Final meeting in Hungary.

· December 15, 00. End of the project.