The Head of our Institute, Prof. Dr Lan Anh Nguyen Luu, and our Erasmus Academic Coordinator and colleague, Dr Orsolya Endrődy, visited Osaka University in July. At the university, there is a Hungarian Department, led by Prof. Dr Mari Okamoto.

Our colleagues held public talks, lectures, and workshops, and agreed to expand the collaboration, apply for International Credit Mobility, and host exchange students and teachers. As future Hungarian language teachers, students will have the chance to learn Hungarian at ELTE and attend the Institute’s Intercultural courses. The mobility will be available to BA, MA, and PhD students as well as professors.

As the two institutes share a common commitment to intercultural understanding, they expect this collaboration to help future generations.

Our colleagues also met Prof. Dr Maki Takayoshi, Associate Professor, Hiroshima University, who conducts research on Education with a special focus on Southeast Asia. With the partner, they agreed to launch a 3-party PhD seminar series with Chiang Mai University in Thailand. The seminar series allows PhD students from the three universities to introduce their research to the international community.

The mobility was within the Erasmus+ framework.