Not only an international student scientific competition, but also a face-to-face meeting of the „WP7” working group took place at the BME in June.
In parallel with the EELISA Scientific Student Competition, an international event to promote student performance, develop students’ professional competences and enhance their knowledge, members of the EELISA WP7 (Employability and Partnerships) working group met at BME on 10-11 June.
The Work Package 7 team, which deals with employment issues as well as the establishment, maintenance and development of partnerships, negotiated the review of their workflows and the necessary optimisation of processes. One of the most important tasks for the members of the team and the management was to prioritise and schedule the objectives. They discussed how to allocate their resources appropriately, identified the most effective ways of working to achieve the desired results, reallocated their tasks and agreed on a roadmap to move forward.
Within the EELISA Association, it is important that the professional communities interact not only virtually but also face-to-face with each other and with community stakeholders – in this case, students, researchers, industry and government partners. In addition to the virtual work, WP7 members met each other in person for the first time, which is an important factor for effective communication and motivation in the future. they did not only meet in the meeting room of the Budapest Campus, but also visited Evosoft Hungary, a member of Siemens Advanta, one of Hungary’s leading software developers in the fields of automation, integrated drive control, medical imaging, electric cars and energy – and also a strategic partner of BME for almost a quarter of a century. Evosoft, in cooperation with the international student organisation EELISA, is also recruiting foreign university students for internships and has launched a summer university for them.
The working group had the opportunity to meet more than 140 international students and to talk to the peer reviewers of the international competition, who came to Budapest for two days for the large-scale hybrid event coordinated by BME.
The meeting was attended in person by Esra Hergert and Vida Rolland, WP7 leaders, representatives of partner universities (UPM, UPB, FAU, ZHAW, PSL, École des Ponts ParisTech, ITU and BME), Dale A. Martin, President of the EELISA Association, and Inês Roquero and Daniel Chaparro, experts from EELISA headquarters. Sofia D’Aguiar, Executive Director of the Universities Association, joined the technical meeting online.
The working group will continue its work as agreed, with the next face-to-face meeting expected to take place in Zurich in the autumn.
