Sofia d’Aguiar, EELISA Executive Director, Dale A. Martin, EELISA Executive President and Alberto Garrido, Vice-Rector, Polytechnic University of Madrid, visited BME for the first time, spending three days from 23 to 25 March in the capital of Hungary. During the visit, they met with the leaders of the university, Tibor Czigány Rector, Attila Kotán Chancellor, and the deans of the faculties, with whom they discussed issues related to education and the communication of the program. The members of the delegation also met with the members of the EELISA Work Packages, set up at BME, so they could get information about the actual operational processes and preparations from the representatives of the 8 faculties. They first discussed with the members of the BME Students’ Union, so the students also had the opportunity to get involved in the first discussions of the EELISA program.
As part of the visit, the participants also got acquainted with the BME campus during a guided tour, and they could also visit two of BME’s several laboratories, the laboratory of the BME FIEK Pharmatech pharmaceutical technology lab, and the laboratory of the BME GPK, Department of Polymer Engineering.