The University of Debrecen A brief introduction

The City of Debrecen More than 650 years of history The 2nd largest city in Hungary Population: ca. 250,000 230 km east of Budapest In the Northeastern part of the Great Plain A university town serving students’ needs

History of UD 1538 – The College of the Reformed Church in Debrecen is established. 1912 - Founding of the Hungarian Royal University with the Faculties of Arts, Law, and Theology. 1918 - The inaugural ceremony of the Main Building of the Medical Faculty by King Charles IV of Hungary. 1950 – The Faculty of Science is established. 1951 - The university is divided in three parts (Academy of Theology, Medical School, Lajos Kossuth University of Arts and Sciences). 1998 - Federation of Debrecen Universities is founded. 2000 - The federation is transformed into the unified University of Debrecen with all the customary faculties and 20,000 students

Facts and Figures Established: 1538 (1912) 14 faculties medical and health sciences, agriculture, food and environmental sciences, arts, music, social sciences, natural sciences, ICT, engineering 7 campuses (5 in Debrecen, 1 in Nyíregyháza and 1 in Hajdúböszörmény) 29.000 students 5664 international students (20%) 1550 lecturers student-lecturer ratio 20:1

UD’s position in major rankings Name Publisher Position Webometrics Cybermetrics Lab, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain 654 QS World University Rankings UK based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) in partnership with Dutch based ELSEVIER 650-700 CWUR Center for World University Rankings, Saudi Arabia 694 THE World University Rankings Times Higher Education (THE) 800-1000 BRICS BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings, (THE) 201-250 U-Multirank European Commission (see chart) URAP  Informatics Institute of Middle East Technical University 620 Name Publisher Position Webometrics Cybermetrics Lab, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain 591 QS World University Rankings UK based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) in partnership with Dutch based ELSEVIER 601-650 CWUR Center for World University Rankings, Saudi Arabia 667 THE World University Rankings Times Higher Education (THE) 601-800 BRICS BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings, (THE) 67 U-Multirank European Commission (see chart) URAP  Informatics Institute of Middle East Technical University 550

QS Rankings by subject area Position Agriculture and Forestry 151.-200. Biological Sciences 301-350. Chemistry 451-500. Mathematics 400. Modern Languages 300. Medicine 201-250.

Education 89 undergraduate programmes 88 graduate training programmes+ 86 teacher training programmes 5 single-cycle programmes + 170 teacher training programmes 7 postgraduate specialist trainings 23 doctoral schools

Research University University of National Excellence 2013 Talent management program „TalentUD” 6 spin-off companies focus areas: pharmaceutical research, food science, medical biology and sport sciences 23 doctoral schools in the following areas: Arts and Humanities Medical Sciences Natural Sciences Social Sciences Agricultural Sciences

Programmes in English 60 accredited degree programmes running in English Single-cycle medical trainings Numerous undergraduate and graduate trainings: Engineering, IT and Natural Sciences Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Business, Management, Economics, Law

Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility Programme (ICM) Erasmus+ ICM programme since 2015, grants for academic/ student mobility Partnerships with non-EU countries University of Debrecen: partnerships with 20 countries, including Iran (2017-2019) Partner: Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) Field of cooperation: academic exchange between the Doctoral Schools of Mathematics

Hungarian - Iranian collaborations The last important event about the business possibilities in February, 2017 Hungarian-Iranian Business Forum, Budapest, Hungary, Facts: balance of trade between the two countries 30 mEU in 2015 Scientific collaborations focuses on the agricultural fields Last Bilateral Projects had been started at 2017 Involved from the Hungarian side: Pannon University and National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre

New situation in the polical gackground After the American Election the new President of US pulled out the nuclear deal, which had been signed by the two goverments. Reimposing the US sanctions. Iranian businesses are under severe pressure Mr Trump’s aggressive actions have put on all aspects of the Iranian economy. They also underline the challenges facing Germany, the UK and France, the European signatories to the deal. The European powers are seeking to ensure Iran is still able to accrue some benefit from the accord through trade with European entities. But there are no simple solutions.

Possible way to develop a Hungarian - Iranian ‚financial collaboration’ How can we set up a financial cooperation in the present international situation? Idea: to set up a Private Equity Fund Based Trust For the investments of the joint venture plants - to fund a Trust

Creation of trusts and their formalities

Legal relation between the parties of the trust relationship Transfer of ownership, or rights or claims Legal relationship of fiduciary asset management Settlor Trustee Beneficiary

Role of the ‚players’ in a trust Lack of legal relationship Right to request the Right of revocation, release of the assets, Right of termination Right to check, Right to check, Right to information, Lack of right to give Lack of right to give instructions instructions Settlor Beneficiary Trustee

The statutory background of the Hungarian trust Relavant laws: Civil Code of Hungary (Act No. V of 2013), § 6:310–330. Act No. XV of 2014 on trustees and the rules of their activities. Governmental decree No. 87 of 2014 on some rules of the financial securities of the trustee companies. 2. Types of trustees: Professional trustee companies (licensed by the National Bank of Hungary). Ad hoc trustee (anybody, but only in 1 trust legal relationship, the deed shall be registered).

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