Students and Auditors of the First Summer School

Virag Fuzi
Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary

 

Virag Fuzi, Hungarian PhD student of Eotvos Loránd Universtity Psychology PhD Program. She lives in Budapest and works as assistant lecturer at Eötvös Loránd University Department of Educational Psychology in Budapest. She leads BA and MA courses for students of pedagogy and postgraduate courses for psychologists. Her main courses are: group counseling, career guidance, helpings skills, talent management, child development, personal skills development and teaching skills development. Her deepest interests of psychology are positive psychology, intercultural communication and talent management. Her research field is positive psychology focusing on self-actualization, subjective well-being and flow experiences among universtity students. Actually she is working on a comparative study of Hungarian and Spanish university students. The objective of her study is to examine whether there is cultural difference in the experience of happiness and self actualization and flow. Her interest about intercultural communication, cross cultural encounters and cultural adaptation spring from her experiences. During university years she spent 9 months in Murcia, Spain as an EVS volunteer and worked by an NGO supporting emigrants’ social adaptation. Inspirated by sojourer experiences she developed a special preparatory training for outgoing Erasmus students supporting their adaptations skills and intercultural communication. She also manages intercultural sensitivity trainings for employees of higher educational institutes. Besides academic teaching she also work as a trainer collaborating with Association of Hungarian Talent Support Organizations, and she gives talent management courses for teachers and organize summer camps for highly talented teenagers.