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Strategic alliance for the engineers of the future
2025. 01. 13.
BME and V-Híd Group strengthen their cooperation.
BME and V-Híd Group have signed a cooperation agreement, taking their relationship on education and professional training to a new level. The aim of the partnership is to provide students of the Faculty of Civil Engineering (ÉMK) with practical and competitive knowledge, and those already working in the profession with continuous training. In addition to educational programmes and cooperative training, the parties are also actively collaborating in the field of research and development.
Under the agreement, V-Híd will provide guest lecturers for BME's bachelor and master programmes and financial support to at least 30 students per year through its Building 250 scholarship programme, as well as financial support and professional development opportunities for 5 additional talented students with the V-Academy scholarship. The company also supports the activities of the Szilárd Zielinski College for Advanced Studies, contributing to career guidance programmes in 6-12 secondary schools.
A key part of the cooperation is the development of new subjects and curricula that prepare students for the challenges of 21st century infrastructure construction. BME is also helping to develop the V-Híd's internal training systems.
The cooperation will be useful for the ÉMK because "we can effectively implement practice-oriented education if students can learn the practices applied in the industry amid real-life conditions, at industrial projects", Szabolcs Rózsa, Dean of the Faculty, told Inforádió. These elements of the training can therefore take place in the construction works carried out by V-Híd. "We can involve mainly our students of infrastructure engineering, 30-40 of them per year," said Mr Rózsa. He added that practical training not only means visiting external sites, but also bringing practical knowledge into the university: the company's engineers are to be involved in the training as lecturers. The Dean noted that it was a great pleasure to see V-Híd recognise that providing students with adequate financial support to enable them to concentrate on their studies was an important part of educating future engineers. "An essential element of the partnership is that V-Híd will support the Building 250 scholarship programme, so that we can double the number of scholarship holders from February." |
"The engineers of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of BME have always been of outstanding professional quality, which we also experience among our staff. This cooperation creates an opportunity to jointly shape the knowledge of future engineers and contribute to the development of the industry" - said István Sárváry, CEO of V-Híd Group after the signing ceremony.
"The strategic goal of the renewed BME is to create an education, research and innovation environment in which our students will acquire competitive knowledge. Strengthening the cooperation between the university and the industry is at the core of our strategy, as we can only provide our students with modern, future-proof engineering and economic knowledge by transferring high-level theoretical knowledge and practical experience from industry to our students.
And in order to develop domestic enterprises and improve their international competitiveness, we offer our research resources to innovative companies,"
said Charaf Hassan, Rector of BME. He added that the cooperation between BME and V-Híd is an excellent example of the implementation of this strategy, and that the Group's commitment to promoting civil engineering is particularly welcome, as "one of the keys to our sustainable future is the renewal of our built environment".
| The cooperation of the two parties also covers research and development. Recently, at the InnoTrans exhibition in Berlin, the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Austrian company Plasser & Theurer and V-Híd signed a trilateral agreement. This will allow the launch of a number of joint research projects focusing on the assessment of the condition of railway tracks, the development of railway construction machinery and the automation of digital data processing. |
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