Community and Civil Development Studies Eötvös Loránd University

Overview

This Community and Civil Development Studies at Eötvös Loránd University program is recommended to applicants who

• wants to learn community development knowledge, methods, modern civil management and strategic thinking.

• believes in community solutions believes in collective wisdom and teamwork

• likes to learn from others, to share experiences, and open to working forms of social learning

• plans to explore the civil society or make researches about communal dilemmas, wants to understand its significance.

This program enables students to

• be a coordinator, manager or leader of a nonprofit organization

• plan and organize community development programs

• make social project, fundraising programs

Career opportunities:

The 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.

Job examples

• Community organisers, community developers

• Charities workers

• Non-profit managers

• Project managers, fundraisers

• SCR developers

• Volunteer-coordinators

• International aid/development workers

• Social researchers

• Civil referents

• Academic researchers, market researchers