1. Budapest University of Technology and Economics, BME Budapest University of Technology and Economics, BME T.I.M.E. GENERAL ASSEMBLY Trento, October 2011 Dr. Gábor PÉCELI, Rector Dr. Péter MOSON, Vice Rector for International Relations Ildikó VARGA, Head of Erasmus and Exchange Office

2. 2 2 1782 Institutum Geometricum – Hydrotechnicum - - - - - 1949-2000 Technical University of Budapest 2000- Budapest University of Technology and Economics  8 Faculties,  77 Departments  24 000 Students  Academic Staff: 1300, with scientific qualification: 700  Golden Quality Prize in HE – (in Hungary, 2007) Faculties:  Civil Engineering (1782)  Mechanical Engineering (1871)  Architecture (1873)  Chemical and Biotechnology (1873)  Electrical Engineering and Informatics (1949)  Transportation Engineering (1951)  Natural Sciences (1998)  Economic and Social Sciences (1998) BME in Figures

3. 3 3 Nobel laureates: Dénes GÁBOR (1900 - 1979) Holography, in 1971 Jenő WIGNER (1902 - 1995) Theoretical physics, in 1963 György OLÁH (b:1927) Organic chemistry, in 1994 A famous former graduate: Ernő RUBIK (1944 -) inventor of Rubik’s cube

4. 4 Research University, 2010. Award of the prestigious title of Research University, in 2010 by the Hungarian government (5 in the country) Gábor PÉCELI Rector of BME

5. 5 Institutional memberships in international organisations & networks CESAEER (Conference of European Schools of Advanced Engineering Education and Research) - 2001-2009 Board member, 2007 General Assembly at BME 4TU League -Regional cooperation of BME, CTU in Prague, SUT in Bratislava, TU Vienna iNEER (International Network of Engineering Education and Research). ICEE conference in Pécs – Budapest, 2008. Cooperation Platform of Central and East European Metropolitan Universities of Technology (11 members) ATHENS – Network of 14 leading European universities of technology. Mobility of cca. 4000 students / year AUF, EAIE, EUA, IAUP, SEFI, …

6. 6 6 BME in TIME - Plans Member since 2003 Initiating more cooperation with the Central and Eastern European regional universities – using BME’s active networks Sharing experiences with Double degree programs and the TIME label summer school, TESS ( active since the pilot phase) BME would be the first representative of the new EU member states (since 2004 and later) in the TIME Advisory Committee

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