welcome toPÉCS

Dear Full-time, Exchange and Erasmus Students of the Faculty of Engineering and Information

Technology on the University of Pécs!

We are happy to welcome you in Pécs, on our University in our multicultural city and would like to share with you some actual information to make

your stay here as pleasant as possible!

What to do after you arrive to Hungary? IMMIGRATION Housing in Pecs MEDICAL INSURANCE APPLICATON PROCESS Medical assistance How to start general contacts

What to do after you arrive to Hungary?

Step 1. Gather the following

documents

1. completed application form of the resi-dence permit for study reason 2. one passport size photo 3. your passport4. You have to certify an address : - If you live in a dormitory: - If you live in a rented flat:• dormitory contract and official accom-modation paper • authorized property page of the flat (not older than 30 days)• the valid rental contract or agreement about the flat• official accommodation paper that is filled out, signed by the owner/s and you and contains the precise, official address

Step 2. Visit the Office of Immigration (OI) in

office hours or book an appointment

Address: Pécs, Csend street 3.How to get there: bus No. 21.

Phone number: +36 72 518 720Office hours:

Monday 8:30-11:30 and 14:00-17:30 Tuesday 13:00-16:00 Wednesday closed

Thursday 08:30-11:30 and 13:00-16:00 Friday 08:30-11:30

Appointment booking: www.bmbah.hu

Step 3. Wait for the call or

e-mail of the OI

• It takes approx. 1 or 2 weeks until your residence permit card arrives. As soon as it is here OI will notify you.• If you live in a flat, make sure you have your name on the mailbox in order to re-ceive official letters sent by any authority.

Step 4. Again visit the OI in

office hours or book an appointment (see

above)

• Submit your passport and refer to the phone call or e-mail where OI notified you about your new residence permit card.• Sign the documents and receive your residence permit.

Important general information

With the type “D” visa you received at the Hungarian Consulate you can only travel in to the country once and its only valid for 30 days (the 30 days starts when you enter the Hungarian border) so please make sure you visit the OI as soon as possible preferably in the first two weeks of your arrival. If you are under 18 years old, you are a minor in Hungary you will need a legal repre-sentative who signes the official docu-ments for you.

All non-EU citizens must check in at the OI within 30 days after their arrival to Hungary. • Book an appointment and ask your Buddy (mentor) to take you to the Of-fice of Immigration and Nationality (OI): www.bmbah.hu

Address: 7623 Pécs, Csend utca 3.Opening hours:Monday: 8:30-11:00, 14:00-17:00Tuesday: 13:00-16:00Wednesday: CLOSEDThursday: 8:30-11:00, 13:00-16:00Friday: 8:30-11:00

Please take the following documents with you:1.) Valid passport / national ID 2.) One passport-size photo3.) Datasheet from their website (”Resi-dence Permit for the Purpose of Studies” - filled out)4.) Letter of Award5.) Student status certificate (from Regis-trar’s Office) and/or Letter of Admission (from your study programme)6.) Dormitory contract OR (if you live in a rented flat) lease agreement + a copy of ownership certificate from landlord + accommodation report form

Then:• Wait for the call or e-mail from OI. It takes approx. 1-2 weeks until your resi-dence permit card arrives. • If you live in a flat, make sure you have

your name on the mailbox in order to re-ceive official letters sent by any authority.• Visit again the OI in office hours or book an appointment (see above)• Submit your passport and refer to the phone call or e-mail where OI notified you about your new residence permit card.• Sign the documents and receive your residence permit.

Important general information

With the type “D” visa you received at the Hungarian Consulate you can only travel in to Hungary once and its only valid for 30 days (the 30 days starts when you enter at the Hungarian bor-der), so please make sure you visit the OI as soon as possible preferably in the first two weeks of your arrival. If you are under 18 years old, you are a minor in Hungary you will need a legal repre-sentative who signs the official docu-ments for you.

IMMIGRATION

Housing in Pecs

Dormitories

The University of Pécs offers for inter-national students Szántó doprmitory. The Faculties of the University as well as the city centre are easily accessible. The dormitorie has recently been renovated and meets the students’ requirements on the highest level. The rooms are nicely furnished and contain bathrooms. Bed-clothes are supplied. Rooms are offered on a reasonable price level.

Facilities: - internet access per room -

- study room - - lounge - - gym -

- bike storage - - parking slots -

- cafeteria - - student club -

Address:

János Szántó Kovács Dormitory (Szántó Dormitory)

H-7633 Pécs, Szántó Kovács János u. 1/c. Non-stop phone number for dormitory check in:

+36 30 3847140

You will need to fill out the check-in form at the dormitory, sign the ”student hostel accommodation service contract” and comply with all house rules. Before mov-ing out from the dormitory you will need to tell the dormitory committee about your decision and you will need to leave before the 3rd day of the month in order to receive your accommodation contri-bution for that month.

Renting a flat

For incoming students who require supe-rior quality accommodation, rented flats are an alternative. Renting a flat can pro-vide students with the peace, comfort and privacy they require. There are numerous private companies in town, two of them are Student Housing (www.student-housing.hu), and iHome (www.ihingat-lan.hu) which offer free apartment-find-ing service for students. They have the largest database of apartments for rent in Pécs from 30.000 HUF/month. They offer: houses, apartments and flats for rent, roommate search. They make ap-pointments with the landlords and they take you out by car to view apartments, provide you a rental contract, etc.

For Students with Stipendium Hungaricum

Scholarship

After you have received your residence permit please, visitMs. Bán Teréz in the Central Registrar’s Office (Központi Ta-nulmányi Iroda - KTI), and apply for your Hungarian medical insurance card (’TAJ card’).

Address: H‐7633 Pécs, 1/b Szántó Kovács János Street, Opening Hours: Mon-Thu: 9:00-12:00, 12:30-15:00, Friday: 9:00-12:00

You will need to bring the following documents with you:

• Passport• Valid residence permit• Accommodation confirmation ( or ad-dress card)• Stipendium verification (Letter of Award)• Student status certificate (from your faculty’s registrar’s office, issued not more than 30 days prior to your application) It takes approximately 1-2 weeks to issue your ’TAJ’ card, then it will be posted to the adress you have provided previously.

For Students without Stipendium Hungaricum

Scholarship

Generali-Providencia STUDIUM Accident and Health Insurance

This insurance covers the expenses of medical treatments and interventions at the designated institution and also covers medicines and therapeutical aids, and - in case of medical necessity - the costs of transport of the patient to the designated institution.

• The cover limit: up to HUF 2,000,000, for any insurance period. • Only 50 % of the costs of medicines and therapeutical aids will be reimbursed.• Insurance premium is for the academic year 2015/2016 (for 12 months) between 01/09/2015 – 31/08/2016: HUF 70,000 for students of the University of Pécs • For the second semester of the academ-ic year 2015/2016 (for 7 months) between 01/02/2015 – 31/08/2015: HUF 40,000 for students of the University of Pécs

More information for Generali-Provi-dencia STUDIUM Accident and Health Insurance: ask Ms. Reka Somfai in the International Office

MEDICAL INSURANCE APPLICATON PROCESS

MEDICAL ASSISTANCE

Please, always keep your Hungarian health insurance card (’TAJ kártya’) or your Generali-Providencia card with you!

• If you get sick (e.g. fever, flu, diarrhea, sore throat etc.) you will need to go to the GP within her opening hours. Always have your Hungarian health insurance card (’TAJ’ card) with you to access free treatment (otherwise one meeting with the doctor costs HUF 2500). If necessary the GP may redirect you to a specialist for special treatment. Prescribed medi-cines can be bought at any pharmacies/drug stores with the prescription from the doctor.

General Practitioner (’háziorvos’)Dr. Ildikó RADVÁNYI (Mrs.), MD

Address: 7624 Pécs, Nyár utca 8.Opening Hours:

Monday: 12:00-16:00Tuesday: 8:00-11:00

Wednesday: 12:00-16:00Thursday: 8:00-12:00

Friday: 8:00-12:00Mobile: +36 30 709 5315

• If you fell sick outside the GP’s opening hours, you will need to go to the Gener-al Practitioner on duty at Rákóczi út 2. (’Megyei Kórház’ – County Hospital - from 15:00) with similar symptomes de-scribed above.

• In case you have serious illness or acci-dent (and you are able to get there your-

self), you will need to go to the Depart-ment of Emergency Medicine (address: Ifjúság út 13. (Janus Pannonius Clinical Center – formerly known as: ’400-bed Clinic’).

• With dental issues first go to Veress Endre utca 2. (’Egyesített Egészségügyi Intézmények, III. sz. Rendelőintézet’) with your Hungarian buddy (mentor) and find out to which dental district you belong to, then visit your designated dentist. Basic treatments are for free with your ’TAJ’ card and your address card, but more complex dental treatments are to be paid by the patient.

• If you are in an emergency situation call one of these numbers below!

General emergency number

112Ambulance and

emergency medical services

104

Police 107

Fire Department, rescue services, civil protection

105

STUDENT CARD APPLICATION PROCESS

1.First, go to the ‘government office’ to fill out the application document.Address: Szántó Kovács János u. 1.Opening hours: Mon: 7:00-17:00, Tue: 8:00-18:00, Wed: 8:00-19:00,Thu: 8:00-18:00, Fri:8:00-16:00),TAKE PASSPORT AND STUDENT STATUS CERTIFICATE WITH YOU!

2.Provide your personal data exactly as it is written in your passport! You will re-ceive a paper there, please make sure that your data on the paper matches exactly with your data in your electronic unified education system (Neptun)! Fill in ‘NEK’ number on this document (upper-right corner) to MODULO (’application form for student card’ menu). HUF 1400 due fee will automatically appear in your ETR.

3.Pay HUF 1400 at your faculty cashier (at your campus), and keep the payment receipt!

4.After 3 days you can go to Central Reg-istrar’s Office (KTI), Address: Szántó K. J. utca 1. - to pick up your temporary stu-dent card.

5.After 4 weeks - pick up permanent stu-dent card at the government office (it has to be validated for every semester by a sticker!!!)

OPENING A BANK ACCOUNT

• In order to receive your monthly Sti-pendium Hungaricum allowances you will need to open a Hungarian bank ac-count at any bank available in Pécs.• Ask your buddy (mentor) to go with you and help you with translation • Take all personal documents with you including passport, student status certif-icate and residence permit, if you have already received it!• After you have opened your new bank account number go to your Faculty’s registrar’s office and provide them your Hungarian bank account number so they can upload it to your file. As long as your account number is not in the system, you will not receive any of your monthly al-lowances, therefore please do this as soon as possible but NOT LATER THAN THE 30TH OF OCTOBER!

How to start

GETTING A HUNGARIAN CELL PHONE

Hungary has three main cellular phone service providers, you may choose any of them to get a Hungarian cell phone num-ber:• T-Mobile• Telenor• VodafoneYou can find all three stores in Árkád de-partment store. Address: 7622 Pécs, Bajcsy Zsilinszky utca 11/1.

BUS NUMBERS AND BUS STOPS

TO REACH THE FACULTIES

Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (MIK)Bus number: 37 | Bus stop: Rodostó utca

János Szántó Kovács DormitoryBus number: 25,26,26Y,27,28 | Bus stop: Szigeti út, Szántó K. J. út

BUS TICKETS, BUS FARES Before you board a bus, you should buy your tickets from a newsagent, in the ticket offices of the Pécs Public Transport Company or in the Tourinform office – do not forget to validate your ticket af-ter boarding. Tickets can also be bought from the bus driver, but this is more ex-pensive. An economical solution is the day card, the weekly pass or monthly student pass (50% discount with your UP student card). These can be bought at the following ticket offices:

Millenium Mall Pécs, Rákóczi út 60.From the 1st to the 7th of the month:Monday-Friday: 7.30-18.00 Saturday: 7.30-12.00Other days of the month: Monday – Friday: 7.30-12.00 and 12.30-16.30

Coach station Pécs, Nagy Lajos Király út 14.From the 1st to the 7th of the month:18.00 Saturday: 6.30-12.00 Other days of the month: Monday – Friday: 6.30-12.00 and 12.30-17.00 Saturday: 6.30-12.00

Bus station Kertváros Pécs, Fellbach utcaFrom the 1st to the 7th of the month:18.00 Saturday: 7.00-12.00Other days of the month: Monday – Friday: 7.00-12.00 and 12.30-16.00

INFORMATION ABOUT STUDY START

Orientation Day for Full-time Students on the Faculty of Engineering

and IT

Each semester on the first day of the semester (fall or spring) in the Faculty Building: All official papers, documents, educational code etc. are necessary.

To be able to register, you should have paid the tuition fee (only full time Stu-dents without Stip. Hun. scholarship)

Deadline for tuition fee payment: two weeks before study start

Payment by the Faculty Cashier near the Registrar’s Office from 8.00 - 13.30 on Thursdays and on Fridays from 8.00-12.30 with code and name, in cash and with bank cards.

Orientation Day for Erasmus and Exchange Students

Institutional Opening Ceremony for Erasmus Students

Each semester on the first day of the se-mester (fall or spring) on the Faculty of Business and Economics, Address: Pécs, Rákóczy út 80. Faculty Orientation Day for Erasmus

and Exchange Students

Each semester on the first day of the semester (fall or spring) in the Faculty Building: All official papers, documents, educational code etc. are necessary.

The address of the Faculty: Pécs, Bo-szorkány utca 2. University of Pécs, Fac-ulty of Engineering and Information Technology

1.Orientation Day for Full-time, Erasmus

and Exchange Students

2. Enrolment, Registration

You have to register for the Semester and take your courses: compulsory courses (in curriculum for each semester com-pulsory subject) and optional (elective subject in each semester optional availa-ble) courses

Deadline for taking courses: till the end of the first week of each semester (!)

Exceptional changes with permission from the International Office: till the end of the third week of the semester, after that date no changes of the courses (!)

To be able to register, full-time students without Stip.Hun. scholarshipshould have paid the tuition fee

Deadline for tuition fee payment: two weeks before study start in each semesterPayment by the Faculty Cashier near the Registrar’s Office from 8.00 - 13.30 on Thursdays and on Fridays from 8.00-12.30 with code and name in cash and with bank cards.

Necessary documents for full-time students:

fulfilled and printed application formhigh-school diploma

3. More information

about actual Study Start

www.engineeringstudies.net

Gabriella MEDVEGY Dr.

Associate Professor, Vice- Dean of International Relations on Faculty of

Engineering/ Academic Representative of International Programs & Relations,

Erasmus Coordinator

Email: medvegygabriella@pmmik.pte.huTel: +36 72 211 968 / extension 23947Office Hours: Wednesdays 9.30-10.30 in B-125Competent in:• Applying for International Programs of the Faculty of Engineering & IT Univer-sity of Pécs• Academic questions of International Study Programs of Faculty of Engineering• International Relations and Interna-tional Activity of the Faculty• Mobility, possibly countries, accepta-tion• Possibly academic contact for incoming Teachers or Staff arriving to the Faculty• Possibly academic or exchange cooper-ation with higher educational institution

Áron BÁNÁTI

Stipendium Hungaricum Institutional Coordinator

Address: H‐7622 Pécs, 4. Vasvári Pál Street, 2nd floor, Office 208.Email: banati.aron@pte.huTel: 00 36 72 501 500 / extension 18525Office Hours: Tuesday 10:00-12:00, Thursday 13:00-15:00

General Contacts

InterNational Office

Réka SOMFAI

Consultant for International Relations Administrative Erasmus coordinator

Email: somfai.reka@mik.pte.huTel: +36 72 503 650 / 23651

Alexandra Peto

DLA Student, Technical Contributor

Email: alexandrapeto.88@gmail.comTel: +36 72 503 650 / extension 23973Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 8.30-11.30, Tuesday and Thursday 13.00-15.00 in B-011Competent in:• non educational issues• Immigration• Health Insurance, GP• opening aBank account• Support and Administration for Inter-national and Erasmus students

Registrar’s office

Ildikó Kovács

Representative of Student Registrar’s Of-fice. (Study-related questions of English-

language-based Programs) Email: kovacs.ildiko@mik.pte.huTel: +36 72 503 650 / extension 23661Office Hours: in B-025

Orsolya ÁrvayRepresentative of Student Registrar’s Of-fice. (Study-related questions of English-

language-based Programs)

Email: aorsi@mik.pte.huTel: +3672 503 650 / extension 23653Office Hours: in B-025

Competent in:• Student Registration• Verification• Enrollment Credentials• Eligibility for admission• Academic Status• Issuance of Official Transcript of Re-cords and Diploma• Temporary Transcript of Records• Transfer Credential• Certification of Enrollment/Attendance• Completion forms, Dropping forms, and application forms for academic re-cords• Authentication of academic records