Aims and Strengths of the Programme

The aim of the programme is to provide the necessary skillsets and knowledge to our students, so that they will be able to perform the following tasks, goals, and activities.

Our students launch community development initiatives and activate the local population for local action. They provide professional assistance for the unfolding local action and help cooperation between community groups formed through self-organization, non-governmental organizations, and the business and public sector.

They participate and help to prepare local development plans and strategies, training programmes, while creating new local services and community enterprises (non-profit information offices, community centres, advisory services, for-profit – new type – cooperatives).

Through the integration of current national and European opportunities, trends, priorities, and adequate methodological knowledge, they provide advice, presenting possible alternatives to local community groups.

They provide information and explore the possibilities of access, and participate in the development of the local community groups' own information system.

Our students organise local movements, conferences, workshops and forums, and they establish partnerships with organizations dedicated to promoting the development (management) of resources (micro-regional development offices, training institutions of employment centres).

Career opportunities

Our former students have been working as academic researchers or professors in different universities: as civil experts or community developers at municipalities, at cultural community centres, at community houses or museums. Most of them became leaders of Hungarian or international non-governmental and voluntary organizations. Some of them have also found job possibilities in market research and multinational companies. Others work as social workers, social politicians or members of media.

Careers in the following fields are easily accessible for our students:

• Community Organisers, Community developers
• Charity workers
• Non-profit Managers
• Project Managers, Fundraisers
• SCR Developers
• Volunteer Coordinators
• International Aid/Development Workers
• Social Researchers
• Civil Referents
• Academic Researchers, Market Researchers