Egis Pharmaceuticals Plc. and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) have signed a cooperation agreement, the pharmaceutical company announced to MTI on Monday.
The aim of the agreement is to support the practical training of students, develop the practical skills required in the labor market, support promising students, and showcase the opportunities offered by the pharmaceutical industry to talented young people with technical qualifications.
They emphasized that, under the cooperation agreement with Egis, the range of opportunities offered by the Department of Building Services Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of BME will be expanded. In addition, the large company will also contribute to the modernization of the training provided by the department.
In addition to providing students with opportunities for internships and factory visits, the pharmaceutical company’s experts will also provide on-site training to students in a number of areas, ranging from energy to chemical and pharmaceutical technology. Under the agreement, these new opportunities will be available to students starting in the fall semester.
The announcement quoted Csaba Poroszlai, CEO of Egis Pharmaceutical Ltd., who said that Egis Pharmaceutical covers all areas of the pharmaceutical value chain: they develop and manufacture active ingredients and pharmaceutical products and deliver their medicines to patients. “This in itself shows how broad the knowledge of our team of experts needs to be and how diverse our expertise needs to be,” said the CEO of the company.
“This in itself shows how broad a range of expertise and how much diverse knowledge we need,” the company’s CEO said.
Charaf Hassan, Rector of BME, noted in the announcement that it is extremely important for the university that its students come into contact with key players in the industry during their studies.
The cooperation with Egis Pharmaceuticals Plc. not only strengthens their practice-oriented training, but also sets a good example of how close ties can be forged between higher education and industry in order to prepare future professionals for their careers.
Egis Pharmaceuticals Plc. is one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in Hungary and Central and Eastern Europe. Its activities cover all value-creating processes in the pharmaceutical industry, from research and development to the manufacture of active ingredients and finished products, and sales.
