University of Szeged Faculty of Pharmacy

Every year, the Fulbright Hungarian-American Educational Exchange Program offers scholarship opportunities to 25-30 American teachers, researchers and postgraduate university students in Hungarian higher education and research institutions in all fields of science and art.

American specialists can find information about Fulbright scholarships announced in 150 countries of the world in the so-called Fulbright U.S. Scholar Catalog of Awards online call for applications.

The call for tenders for Hungary is prepared based on an assessment of the needs of Hungarian institutions: every year, we assess what American professionals are needed in the country, and based on this, we announce the scholarship opportunities for the following academic year.

Our aim is that the call for tenders reflects the needs of domestic scientific, educational and cultural life.

The next call will be published on February 1, 2025, and the application deadline is expected to be mid-September 2025.

The already expired catalog of the previous tender cycle can be found at the following link:
Fulbright U.S. Scholar Catalog of Awards for Hungary AY 2025-2026
We will update this based on the latest survey.

With the help of an online questionnaire, we would like to assess which American specialist your institution/department would like to work with in the 2026-2027 academic year.

The online questionnaire is available at the following link:
University Request Form for the U.S. Fulbright Scholar, AY 2026-2027

Please fill out the questionnaire in English and include the contact information of the head of department or other competent person who, in the event of a successful application, will be the recipient of the scholarship.

We also ask that you distribute this questionnaire as widely as possible in your institution.

Deadline for completion: November 20, 2024.

All submitted requests will be forwarded to our American partner institution, the Institute for International Education (IIE), but this does not mean that there will be an American applicant or scholarship candidate for every field. If you know an American specialist whom you would like to invite to your institution, please draw their attention to the Fulbright application opportunity.

I will be happy to help you with any further questions.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Regards,

Annamária Sas
American Program Manager
Hungarian-American Fulbright Foundation

Dear Supervisors!
Dear PhD Students!

We would like to inform you that the next meeting of the Scientific Doctoral Council (TDT) will take place on 10 December 2024 (Tuesday) 1:00 p.m., and the next University Doctoral Council (EDT) on 12 December 2024 (Thursday) 2:00 p.m.

The Scientific Doctoral Council committee asks for the program points to be uploaded in CooSpace scene 5 days before the meeting, therefore, the supervisors and PhD students are kindly asked to send the current program points accordingly to the PhD secretariat.

The PhD inauguration takes place twice a year: at the end of January and at the end of June.

The events calendar of the SZTE Doctoral Institute can be found at the link below (the page is only available in Hungarian):

https://u-szeged.hu/dokint

Best regards
University of Szeged
Faculty of Pharmacy
Doctoral School of Pharmaceutical Sciences

The opening order of the PhD program, the course enrollment and the examination period can be viewed in the university online schedule, which can be found at the following link:

http://web5.etr.u-szeged.hu:8080/naptar/index.jsp?lang=english

I would like to draw the attention of future first-year PhD students to the fact

that they can find more information on the following topics on the website below:

- prepare for arrival

- entering Hungary

- how to get to Szeged

- accommodation

- enrollment procedures

- living in Szeged

https://u-szeged.hu/english/arrival

University of Szeged

Faculty of Pharmacy

PhD Secretariat

Dear PhD Students and Colleagues,

If you do not have a GP, you can look for:
Dr. Krisztina Pál (doctor)
address: 6722 Szeged, Tisza Lajos boulevard 97.
phone: +36-62/545-555, +36-62/574-415
email: pal.krisztina@med.u-szeged.hu

Be sure to contact your doctor first by phone or e-mail.

You have to book an appointment to the doctor, which can be done in the Modulo system. (Submission -> Student Services Office -> Generali Studium booking an appointment with a family doctor)

Request for @stud e-mail address:

PhD students who are not employed by the University of Szeged can apply for a university student mailbox at the following link:

http://www.stud.u-szeged.hu/web/leiras.php

Unfortunately, the website has not been translated into English by the operator, so please ask your Hungarian fellow student for help.

Request for @szte e-mail address:

A voluntary contract must be concluded with the PhD student at the given institute. With the help of the contract, you are considered a person staying at the institute, and therefore a university employee, who is therefore entitled to use the e-mail account.
Inquire about your contract at the Secretariat of the given Institute, which is related to the use of the university e-mail address. after concluding the contract, the username sent by IT operations can be collected at the Student Services Office (the office is located on the ground floor of the Klebersberg Library). When the contract expires, access to the account will be disabled by the IT staff managing the e-mail accounts, however, the account can be reactivated if the institute enters into a new voluntary contract with you.

Dear Students!

If there is any change in your data (new document, extension of residence permit, new language exam certificate, change of residence / notification address, new contact details, e-mail change, any data related to pre-studies, official data related to studies), it is included in Neptun's Unified Study System update is required, so please notify the PhD Secretariat of the Faculty of Pharmacy of any data change immediately.

Published in the Hungarian Official Journal (2021/97), Act LIII of 2021 amended Section 53(4) of the Act on National Higher Education, therefore modifying the submission deadline of doctoral dissertations:
“Within a period of three academic years after passing the comprehensive examination, the PhD/DLA student shall submit a doctoral thesis as defined in the Doctoral Regulations. In cases which deserve special attention, this period may be extended by up to one academic year in accordance with the Doctoral Regulations. In the course of the procedure to obtain a doctoral degree, the maximum length of the suspension of student status may not exceed two semesters.”
On the joint proposal of the Hungarian Doctoral Council and the Association of Hungarian PhD and DLA Candidates, the Hungarian Government also accepted the proposal to extend the submission deadline of doctoral dissertations during the state of emergency. According to the Government Decree 217/2021 (IV. 30.) published in the Hungarian Official Journal (2021/76):
“(1) By way of derogation from Section 53(4) of the Act CCIV of 2011 on National Higher Education, the PhD/DLA student who passed the comprehensive exam between 1 February 2018 and 10 May 2021 shall submit a doctoral thesis as defined in the Doctoral Regulations within a period of four academic years after passing the comprehensive examination. In cases which deserve special attention, this period may be extended by up to one academic year in accordance with the Doctoral Regulations.
(2) For the PhD/DLA student defined in Section (1), in the course of the procedure to obtain a doctoral degree, the maximum length of the suspension of student status may not exceed four semesters.”

Regulations of the Doctoral School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, http://www.pharm.u-szeged.hu/english/doctoral-training/regulations/regulations defines the rules of foreign language knowledge requirements for obtaining a PhD degree:

To obtain a degree, intermediate language competence in at least one foreign language (English, German, Russian, French, Spanish or Italian) shall be certified by a B2 level complex type language examination or equivalent certification. Equivalence between language examinations is regulated by a Government Decree. Cases that are not regulated by the Government Decree fall under the authority of the Foreign Language Centre of the University. The expert opinion of the Centre shall be decisive.

The language exam certificate must be presented at the Doctoral Secretariat at the latest when the thesis is submitted. From 1st September 2023, the second basic level language exam is only mandatory if the student obtained the intermediate level language exam in a language other than English. In that case, the second basic foreign language must definitely be English.

In the case of foreign students, intermediate language skills can be recognized if the student has completed his high school or university studies in a world language (English, German, Russian, French, Spanish, Italian) and proves this with an official document issued by the high school or university.

Language skills are recorded by the PhD Secretariat in the Neptun Unified Study System. Participation in previous language courses are not acceptable for foreign language skills. If you do not have a language exam yet, you have the opportunity to take a language course at the Institute of Foreign Language Communication of the University of Szeged:

http://www.lingo.u-szeged.hu/language-examinations

titkarsag@lingo.u-szeged.hu

You can enter the Unified Study System at the link below. If you have not already created an account, you can do so in the Registration (for the initial password) menu, during which a username is generated and the password is entered by you.

https://web5.neptun.u-szeged.hu/hallgato/login.aspx

Step 1. Log in to the Neptun system (http://hallgato.neptun.elte.hu/). Click on the menu „Subjects”, „Register for subject”.

Step 2. Select the corresponding term and select „angol” („English”) for the language. Click on „List subjects”. (You may try other filtering options too, such as „Subject name”.)

Step 3. To find the subjects you need from the list of available subjects, navigate the pages by clicking on the numbers in the upper right corner. (You may also set the „Page size”.) The subjects that you have already completed will be displayed with a green tick. Now, find the subject you want to register for and click on „Register”.

Step 4. After that, select the course and click on „Save”.

And you are registered for the subject!

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