{"id":25228,"date":"2021-03-29T15:03:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T13:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/?p=25228"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:54:47","slug":"semmelweis-university-and-charles-university-have-agreed-online-to-further-strengthen-their-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/nki\/en\/2021\/03\/29\/semmelweis-university-and-charles-university-have-agreed-online-to-further-strengthen-their-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"Semmelweis University and Charles University agree online to further strengthen their cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span lang=\"en-US\">D<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">r. B\u00e9la Merkely, <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Rector of <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Semmelweis University and <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">D<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">r. Tom\u00e1\u0161 Zima, Rector of Charles University in Prague <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">agreed <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">about<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> strengthening and further developing the current cooperation <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">between the institutions<\/span> during <span lang=\"en-US\">an <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">online discussion <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">held <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">on <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">23 <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">March, 2021.<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25227\" src=\"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/files\/2021\/03\/RS82335_IMG_3822-scr-1-274x400-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"400\" \/>The virtual meeting was initiated by Dr. B\u00e9la Merkely, Rector, who participated in the accreditation procedure of Charles University last year and as a member of the evaluation panel worked on the evaluation of the five medical and pharmaceutical faculties. The two institutions have already implemented a number of joint projects as members of international organizations, like <a href=\"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/2016\/05\/semmelweis-university-a-founding-member-of-a-central-european-alliance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CELSA<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unica-network.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UNICA<\/a>. In addition, Hungary has been in charge of leading the Visegrad Group (V4) since July 2021, which aims to support the visibility of the region and provides an opportunity to increase the international visibility of strategic goals, which may also further strengthen the relationship between the two universities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span lang=\"en-US\">During the meeting, both university leaders emphasized that they were open to a closer cooperation and were willing to further develop the collaboration between the two institutions. Dr. B\u00e9la Merkely presented the joint publication activity and said, he hoped that the improvement of the epidemic would strengthen the relationship and the development of educational and research cooperation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201c<span lang=\"en-US\">The concert, which is planned to be organized in September 2021 with the participation of the Medic Orchestra, could be an excellent opportunity for a personal meeting of the leaders of the two universities\u201d, pointed out Dr. B\u00e9la Merkely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span lang=\"en-US\">A special feature of the V4 Music Tour concert series is that Hungarian musicians are joined by medical students from Semmelweis University&#8217;s partner institutions. After the concert in Budapest held in March 2020, the concert series will continue in Prague, Trnava and Krakow in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25225\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25225\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25225\" src=\"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/files\/2021\/03\/1576836786-rektor-uk-prof-tomas-zima4979-edited-400x323-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"323\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Tom\u00e1\u0161 Zima<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The concert in Prague will provide an opportunity for the two rectors, leaders of the universities and other professionals to continue the discussion.\u00a0 Both Dr. B\u00e9la Merkely and Dr. Tom\u00e1\u0161 Zima agreed that a closer cooperation may also improve the position of both insitutions in international rankings. The Embassy of Hungary in Prague and the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Budapest are also in favor of strengthening the relationship between the two universities. At the end of the discussion, Dr. B\u00e9la Merkely invited the Rector of Charles University and his delegation to Budapest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Di\u00e1na M\u00f3dos, Directorate of International Relations<br \/>\nPhoto source: Directorate of International Relations; Attila Kov\u00e1cs, Semmelweis University; Charles University<br \/>\nTranslation: Katalin Ill\u00e9s-Romh\u00e1nyi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. B\u00e9la Merkely and the Rector of Charles University participated in an online discussion regarding the cooperation of the two universities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":25226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,190],"tags":[218,210],"class_list":["post-25228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-semmelweis-world","category-partnership","tag-international-relations","tag-partnership"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/nki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/nki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/nki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/nki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/nki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/nki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34511,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/nki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25228\/revisions\/34511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/nki\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/nki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/nki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/nki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}