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International Leadership of Enterprise and Development teams students in Penn State's engineering leadership program with economics students at Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary, using the latest information technology available. For additional photos of the students' trip to Hungary, click on the image above.
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The culmination of the trip is the presentation of final reports before Penn State and Corvinus faculty.
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Penn State engineering leadership students tour a mushroom farm during their trip to Hungary. One of the Penn State-Corvinus projects focused on creating mushroom production for women in Gaza.
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Penn State leadership students visit the Matthias Church in Budapest's Castle District.
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Not every waking moment is spent working on the final presentation. Penn State leadership students tour various historical and cultural sites around the city, including the remnants of an ancient Roman amphitheater.
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During their trip to Hungary, the Penn State leadership students, along with their Hungarian teammates, attend lectures led by the faculty at Corvinus University.
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Krisztian Csapo, assistant professor of small business development at Corvinus University, greets the Penn State engineering leadership students at the foot of a statue of Karl Marx. During the Soviet era, the institution was known as the Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences. It was renamed in 1990 after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Rick Schuhmann, Walter L. Robb director of engineering leadership, right, briefs the Penn State team as students from Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary, look on via a Polycom videoconferencing system.
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