Mr. Gergő Németh: Erasmus study and placement mobility from Budapest Tech – Politechnical Institution, Hungary, to Hanzehogeschool Groningen, Netherlands

Gergő Németh, 24, an electrical engineering student from Budapest Tech, Hungary, studied biomedical engineering for ten months at the Hanzehogeschool University Groningen in the Netherlands.

"My results in Budapest were good so my professors recommended me for an Erasmus scholarship. So in my last year there, I left for the Hanzehogeschool University Groningen in the Netherlands. I went partly because a double degree in a foreign country would improve my recruitment prospects, but also because I was just curious and wanted to see the world.

I enrolled on a biomedical engineering course, though at the time I knew very little on the subject. Luckily, I was allowed to take part in the Erasmus Intensive Programme 'Human Centred Approaches in Biomedical Engineering' in the summer before the course started.

The first semester, I grew to feel at home in my new environment. I took part in the university’s open-door days and educational programmes with the friends I met on campus.

In the second semester, I worked on my thesis at the radiology department of Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen. My goal was to characterize non-calcified plaques by Multi Detector Computed Tomography. The project could lead to new ways of tackling coronary artery disease. My work was well received. I received a Dutch and Hungarian BSc degree, and my results were submitted in a scientific abstract to the Annual Conference of Radiological Society of North America.

I’m delighted to have discovered this line of research and am grateful to the Erasmus programme for having made my stay in Groningen possible. I now look forward to continuing my studies in image processing systems at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics."