Tibor Ágotai: Student accommodation – a frontline view

As students prepare to return to their dormitories and apartments for the beginning of the new academic year, we examine the long and sometimes complex processes they have to follow to secure lodgings suitable to their needs and expectations.

Reckoning with budgets and priorities, coming to grips with university bureaucracies and navigating intricate housing markets can present serious challenges, and even more so for international students. What are the best available options to find accommodation? How are institutions supporting international students? How has the pandemic changed the picture? Join us for this episode of the EAIE podcast as we ask all these questions and many more to our new podcast guest, Tibor Ágotai, the international coordinator of dormitories at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.

About Tibor Ágotai

Tibor Ágotai is the international coordinator of the Dormitory Centre at Eötvös Loránd University. His department centrally oversees all aspects of student accommodation, manages dormitories, and cooperates with private partners in the housing market. He is an alumnus of Eötvös Loránd University, where he is graduating from the Faculty of Law.

Further reading

For further insights into the topics touched on in this episode, the following resources may be of interest:

→ The social dimension of student life in the European Higher Education Area in 2019 (Eurostudent)

→ Information Guide for International Students (Eötvös Loránd University)

→ HOME project

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