From the 15th to the 17th of April 2011 our faculty was the host of the 1st LEN Learn to Swim Seminar. In cooperation with the European Swimming League and the Hungarian Swimming Association our faculty invited more than a thousand people involved in watersports: we were expecting applications from the member organisations of LEN, watersports’ clubs, other international organisations and even representatives of live-saving associations.

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On the 9th of May 2011 Mr. H.E. Gauri Shankar Gupta, the ambassador of India, Mr. Sushil Singhal, the First Secretary of the Embassy of India, D.S.C. Rao snd S.P.S. Tomar, representing the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports visited our faculty who arrived to Budapest for a one-week visit.

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On 19th May 2011 the participants of the International Coaching Course (ICC) and the participants of the Intensive Canoe-Kayak Coaching Course took part in an extraordinary, but hopefully a future-traditional course. Yassine Yousfi, the project manager of the IOC’s Olympic Solidarity Programme held his presentation live from Lausanne to our sixty students.

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On the 8th of June we hosted two prestigeous guests in our board-room. Pamela Vipond, the Deputy Head of the Olympic Solidarity Programme of the IOC and Gianluca de Angelis, the Administrative Manager of the European Olympic Committees came to our faculty. The presentations were followed by a working lunch, in both Dr. Zsigmond Nagy, the International Director of the Hungarian Olympic Committee was taking part as well.

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On the 14th of June we held the graduation ceremony of the participants of the International Coaching Course. The programme started in March with 45 participants from 12 countries and fortunately ended with the same number of students. They received their degree from Dr. József Tihanyi, the dean of our faculty, Dr. Tibor Kozsla, the strategic and international director of the faculty and their leading professors. We were honoured to greet some prestigeous guests at the ceremony. Mr. Sushil Singhal, the first secretary of the Embassy of India and Mr. Leandro Amado, the first secretary of the Embassy of Portugal came to congratulate the students, and Mr. Marcel Pop, the director of international affairs of the Semmelweis University graced us with his attendance.

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Hungary applies for the membership of the Security Council of the United Nations for the 2012-13 period. To enhance our back up our Government invited a delegation of the UN Ambassadors to spend some time in our country between the 14th and the 19th of June. In this period the delegation of 14 countries visited our faculty, when Dr. Tibor Kozsla – our strategic and international director – gave them a presentation. The delegation - which represented fourteen developing countries and which was led by Mr. Csaba Kőrösi, Ambassador to the UN and his colleagues from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - listened to his presentation with enthusiasm.

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From the end of June twenty students from the University of Chichester were hosted by our faculty. The PE students were participants of the first exchange programme between the two institutions.

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On the 17th July Sergio Arnoldo Camargo Muralles, the president of the Olympic Committee of Guatemala and Lic. José Antonio Coro Garcia, the president of the Weightlifting Federation of Guatema visited our faculty. They were accompanied by three other guests from their country, among them the head of the sport committe of their parliament.

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From the 10th of July thirty elite coaches from India visited lectures in our Faculty. The purpose of their one-month tailor-made coaching programme was to deepen their knowledge in the planning and guidance of training. Moreover they learnt other competences that are related to coaching. They had lectures in training theory, general conditioning, about injuries, nutrition of athletes and about doping. They learnt how to use a training planning software, so they will be able to pass their knowledge in practice to their athletes. Furthermore the thirty students – who were selected by the Sports Authority of India – visited and monitored some trainings held in our institution during their stay. After the lectures they had to write some computer-based tests.

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