UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA - SUMMER UNIVERSITY 2024

*The professional study course, the organized additional programmes, the accommodation for 6 nights and three meals per day for one week are provided by the University of Pannonia. The travel cost and the spending money need to be covered by the participants.

• High quality training

• Professional development

• Exploring Veszprém (Hungary)

• Networking

• New experiences

• Language skill development

• Intercultural environment

• Friendly atmosphere

• Beautiful historic town

• Tourist programmes

The aim of the Summer University is to make the Hungarian Higher Education more attractive for international students. Summer University provides good opportunity to introduce Veszprém and the Lake Balaton with the eyes of a tourist and a student in the same time while feeling the special atmosphere of a countryside university and a wonderful, historic town. Students just have fun and behave like a tourist meanwhile get to know more the methodology and practise of tour guiding. Through the programmes students of the summer university easily try leisure management, sport activity management, thematic trip organisation, historic and religion trip guiding.

The summer university starts on Sunday afternoon. Every day students participate on the 4 hours long training activity. They work in groups to develop sightseeing tours and leisure time programmes together and try the feasibility of the planned tours.

They study and work on the following theme:

• city tours,

• walking and bus sightseeing tours,

• museum visits,

• tour guide behaviour,

• type of tourists

• route planning for groups,

• interpretation technics,

• interpretation of art history,

• religious tours focusing on groups.

• discovering local touristic values.

Students participate on communication training and on the spot activities. Students of the summer university are tested at the end of the course and if they successfully pass the exam, they get a certificate to remember that they have acquired knowledge and experience in tour guiding.

Veszprém is a medium sized town with around 60 000 inhabitants. As the centre of Veszprém County, it offers all the possibilities a student would need. There is a county library, two theatres, several of shopping facilities including a shopping mall with cinema, a zoo, charming cafés and restaurants.

Veszprém is known as the “City of Queens” since in the early years of the county’s history the castle of Veszprém was the residence of the Hungarian queens. The main square of the castle is surrounded by wonderful baroque buildings, museums, galleries and the Archbishop’s Palace. Close to the historical downtown, Veszprém is a modern university town. Veszprém Arena Sport Center is the county’s second larges sport and event hall and the “home” of the famous Veszprém handball team. In the industrial parks of Veszprém numerous international companies operate, many of whom rely on the freshly graduated students.

The town is very strong in cultural events and festivals. The most well-known of these are the Gizella Days Arts Festival, the Street Music Festival, the Veszrém Fest and Veszprém Rally. Veszprém was the European Capital of Culture in 2023. As a result of the successful project, the city was also externally renewed and hosted a number of exciting events, which were attractive enough to continue to offer sustainable attractions.

The distance of the city from Budapest is 110 km (easily accessible by train or bus). The distance from the Lake Balaton is only 15 km.

Hungarians love their Balaton, which they call the “Hungarian Sea”. It is Central Europe’s largest fresh water lake. This is the second most visited touristic destination of the country, right after the capital. In summer it provides perfect holidays with a water temperature between 20-25 degrees Celsius. Bike lovers can go for a ride around Lake Balaton, through picturesque landscapes. The small towns around the lake are cosy and offer exciting dining facilities, Balatonfüred, right on the shore, only 20 km from Veszprém, is rich in historic memorial places, mansions and villas. Tihany, located on a small peninsula, bears beautiful relics of the folk architecture and is famous for its abbey and lavender fields.

Deadline: 6 June 2024

Applications can only be submitted online and accepted applications will be notified directly by e-mail on 10th June 2024.

The Summer University is open to 18 students. In case of a large number of applications, we may close the application earlier then the final deadline.

Contact information:

Tünde Vajda, international coordinator

vajda.tunde@gtk.uni-pannon.hu

+36 88 624 136