Erasmus Life Budapest

Placement organization

Name of organization: Erasmus Life Budapest
Town/city: Budapest
Country: Hongarije
Website: http://www.erasmuslifebudapest.com

Student

Name of student: Maikel Koelink

Specialist area: Tourism Management (NL)
Placement period: 2017-2018

Information about placement organization

Type of organization: Event Organization
Organization’s activities: – Club party
– Pubcrawl
– Walking tour
– Welcome Camp
– Speed friending
– Beerpong championships
– Game nights
– Museums
Target group of the organization: Students
Company culture: The three owners of the company all specialized in a different branch. Social Media/Marketing, IT and the events. Under them you had the office manager, then came the interns & then you had hostess.
Number of employees: 15-20
Dress code: casual
Did the organization meet the agreements you made beforehand? Not all the agreements

Information about your placement

In which department(s) are you working?

Event organization

Brief description of your daily activities: – Office duty (Selling ELB Cards/Tickets, Questions)
– Planning/Organizing Events
– Social Media tasks
– Working at events
Brief description of your company assignment: How can the annual Welcome Camp grow, but at the same time maintain a high level of quality and at the same time become more ”green”/environmentally friendly?
Comment briefly on your supervision by the organization: During my internship, I did have a hard time with my internship supervisor in terms of communication. I had the feeling several times that he heard me, but did not understand.

Sometimes appointments were made, or he said he understood me, but a day later or an hour later it was already completely different. At some point I resigned myself to the fact that it wasn’t the perfect match, and after that things were fine.

Requirements for students on placement

What kind of personal skills are required for this placement? teamplayer, flexible, sociable
Additional company requirements for this placement? MS Office, Writing skills, social media skills
English: Advanced
Spanish: Basic
French:
German:
Italian:
Other languages:

The trip

Mode of transport to reach your destination: airplane

Accommodation

How did you arrange your accommodation? myself
How did you go to work every day? by foot

Visa / work permit / vaccinations

Do you need a visa? no
Do you need a work permit? no
How did you arrange the necessary documents:
How much time did it take to arrange the necessary documents?
Did you need certain vaccinations? Yes
How long in advance? Covid

Language course

Did you take a language course before you started your placement? No
Would you recommend to have a language course prior to this placement? Practice is necessary

The costs in euros

Travelling expenses (e.g. return ticket): € 200
Accommodation (monthly): € 400
Local transport (monthly): € 50
General costs of living (monthly): € 450
Costs of visa: €
Costs of work permit: €
What did the company pay for/to you? Nothing

Culture

How did you prepare for the country’s culture?
Beforehand I did not really prepare myself for the Hungarian culture, this was not really necessary in my opinion. Budapest is a nice city to live in, you adapt along the way automatically.
Did the culture of the country influence your performance during the placement in any way? Not really

Future students on placement

Future students are free to contact me for further information: Yes
My e-mail address: 204434@buas.nl

Other information

Recommendations on what to do and what not to do: I may have had too high expectations for the internship and hoped to organize the biggest things right away. If you go into this internship with a blank feeling then it can really be a fun internship. Because I started with some setbacks, it never became the internship I expected it to be. However, it is a unique experience to live and work in a metropolis like Budapest.
Leisure possibilities in the city/surroundings of where the placement took place: Budapest offers many opportunities to have fun, the nightlife is one of them. But the architecture is what you can really fall in love with.

The Gellert Hill is a possibility for a nice hike, with a view over the whole city. The Basillica is breathtaking and for a small price you can go inside & all the way up. Again, you have a view of the entire city.

A tour of the Danube River is also recommended.

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