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Alumni and Network

Verein Deutscher Akademiker aus Ungarn e. V.

TU Dresden has always had Hungarian students. The The cultivation of German student traditions at
cultural bond formed between the alumni during their four Kinderfasching and Oktoberfest are among the
to five years of study lasts a lifetime. The most active association’s most popular activities.
among them founded the Association of German
Academics from Hungary (DU) in 1994. It is committed to The association regularly publishes alumni news, three
Hungarian alumni from all German universities; however, times a year, with articles in Hungarian and German. To
many members of the association have their academic mark the association’s tenth anniversary, there was a
roots at TU Dresden. commemorative edition with biographies, anecdotes and
photos of the alumni.
The association is committed to maintaining contact
between its members and also wants to help deepen These activities are complemented by events, excursions,
German-Hungarian relations. An important part of the DU children’s programs and gatherings organized by groups of
program is the annual conference, in which topics from the friends in a particular region or by a particular year of
field of business and culture are discussed - usually from a alumni.
special German-Hungarian-European perspective. It deals
with topics such as 1,100 years of German-Hungarian The association currently has around 1,200 members,
relations, bilingualism, Germans and Hungarians, seen more than half of whom studied in Dresden. TUD alumni
through the eyes of their neighbors or patriotism in the EU. can be found on both the association’s board and the
supervisory board.

Association head, Tamás Bornemissza, is looking forward
Tamás Bornemissza has been running the DU for a number of years. to welcoming new members from all age groups:
“Especially newly graduated or current students who are
still living in Germany. What connects us? We communicate
with one another and understand each other with half-
German-half-Hungarian words,” he says.

Susann Mayer

Contact
Verein Deutscher Akademiker aus Ungarn e. V.
(Hungarian Német-diplomások Egyesülete)
✉ info@nemet-diplomasok.hu
nemet-diplomasok.hu

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