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Alumni and Network
Verein Deutscher Akademiker aus Ungarn e. V.
TU Dresden has always had commemorative edition with
Hungarian students. The cultural biographies, anecdotes and photos
bond formed between the alumni of the alumni.
during their four to five years of
study lasts a lifetime. The most These activities are complemented
active among them founded the by events, excursions, children’s
Association of German Academics programs and gatherings organized
from Hungary (DU) in 1994. It is by groups of friends in a particular
committed to Hungarian alumni region or by a particular year of
from all German universities; alumni.
however, many members of the
association have their academic The association currently has
roots at TU Dresden. around 1,200 members, more than
half of whom studied in Dresden.
The association is committed to TUD alumni can be found on both
maintaining contact between its the association’s board and the
members and also wants to help supervisory board.
deepen German-Hungarian
relations. An important part of the Association head, Tamas
DU program is the annual Bornemissza, is looking forward to
conference, in which topics from welcoming new members from all
the field of business and culture age groups: “Especially newly
are discussed - usually from a graduated or current students who
Tamas Bornemissza has been running special German-Hungarian- are still living in Germany. What
the DU for a number of years. European perspective. It deals with connects us? We communicate with
topics such as 1,100 years of one another and understand each
German-Hungarian relations, other with half-German-half-
bilingualism, Germans and Hungarian words,” he says.
Hungarians, seen through the eyes
of their neighbors or patriotism in Susann Mayer
the EU.
The cultivation of German student
traditions at Kinderfasching and
Oktoberfest are among the
association’s most popular Contact
activities. Verein Deutscher Akademiker aus
Ungarn e. V.
The association regularly publishes (Hungarian Német-diplomások
alumni news, three times a year, Egyesülete)
with articles in Hungarian and ✉ info@nemet-diplomasok.hu
German. To mark the association’s nemet-diplomasok.hu
tenth anniversary, there was a
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