National VET Team experts
Meet the Hungarian experts of the National VET Team!
dr. Boglárka FEKETE
She graduated from the fields of law and economics. First, she studied law and economics with specialization in trade and marketing, and then, looking for the common area between the two disciplines, she graduated from international economy and management on master level. She started her career in the legal field in the national public administration, and then worked in the private business sector. Since 2017, she has been building her career both in the public and the private sectors, focusing projects and training in the latter one. Working as the Head of the examination centre and the deputy professional director at Kiskunfélegyházi Economic Secondary School in Kiskunfélegyházi Vocational and Training Centre, she gained a broad view in the processes and changes of the national vocational education and training. She also has project management experience in education-related programs offered by the European Union. In both areas, she can effectively apply the knowledge and skills acquired from the other activity. In her career, she tries to apply his knowledge of law and economics in an overlapping manner, and constantly develops her managerial competences. Besides her native language (Hungarian), she speaks English on the high level, appropriate for her job.
József MARTON
According to his qualification, he is an electrical engineering teacher, pedagogical lecturer, and managerial economic engineer. He started his career as a junior lecturer of measurement at Kálmán Kandó Electrical Engineering College. Since 1983, he has been working in Békéscsaba at the Trefort Ágoston Vocational Secondary School, then in its legal successor at the Central Vocational Training School as a professional teacher. From 1988 to 1991, he was a member of the inspector group in the Ministry of Industry and then in the National Institute of Vocational and Adult Education and Training. From 1991, he worked as the head of the Békéscsaba Central Vocational Training School. He participated in several national innovations, then worked as the Head of the Education Department of the Békés County Government Office. Currently, he is the Head of quality management and adult education, as well as the project referent in the Secondary Vocational School of Gál Ferenc University. Since 2001, he has been working as a quality assurance expert and the expert of the reference point in the National Office of Vocational and Adult Education and Training. Since 2015 he has been working for the Tempus Public Foundation first as an ECVET expert, and since 2021, as an expert of the National VET Team. He gained experience in developing and implementing several Erasmus KA1 and KA2 projects. As an expert, he represented our country at the annual events of ECVET and EQAVET Network PLAs. Since 2016, he has been an honorary associate professor at Ferenc Gál University.
Katalin MOLNÁRNÉ STADLER
She is a TQM economist, quality management and quality development expert, and consultant. He has had more than 30 years of professional experience in the field of quality assurance, quality management and quality development, both on national and international levels. As a project manager and a qualified consultant, she gained a lot of experience in manging and consulting quality, economic development and business management projects, and participated in the implementation of several national and EU projects in various sectors.
Since 2000, she has had a decisive role in professionally managing, supporting and implementing activities aimed at improving the quality of education and training in the field of general education, higher education and, especially, vocational education and training. Since 2005, she has benne working as the Hungarian official expert-representative in the European Vocational Training Quality Assurance Network. In 2007, she was also elected as a member of the Network's Board of Directors, she has had this position since then. Since 2010, she has been working as an expert and professional leader of the European Vocational Training Quality Assurance Reference Point operating in the National Office of Vocational and Adult Education and Training.
For her successful professional work in the field of quality, the ISO 9000 Forum awarded her the "For Quality" individual award.
Helga MÜLLER
She has the qualifications of a teacher, IT expert, and has an MBA degree She gained experience in building and increasing the efficiency and success of organizations in national and multinational companies, and in managing international projects. Her main fields of expertise are training and IT, at the intersection of which she has been leading the development of several e-learning platforms, supporting the effective relationship between vocational education and training and the labour market. In recent years, her interest has turned to the educational application of web and mobile technologies, and she supervises international mobile application development projects. She works as the head of an adult training institution that trains 10,000 participants a year. She has been one of the members of the adult education expert board since its introduction and performs active activities in the field of vocational and adult education. She has been working as an expert in Erasmus+ mobility programmes, in the fields of accreditation and strategic cooperation, as well as accompanies many projects from the application stage to implementation. She believes in human values, the power of trust and cooperation. In her everyday work, she strives to support equal opportunities and catching up through education.
Marianna PALENCSÁRNÉ KASZA
She graduated as an economist-teacher and a German language and literature teacher, and also has a degree in catering management. She worked in the vocational education and training for 26 years, where she had all positions from a teacher to the head of the institutions. She has been doing expert work since 2009; working as a vocational and adult education and training expert in the field of vocational education and training development. As the member of the staff of Digital Wellbeing Nonprofitable Ltd., she participated in developments supporting the digitization of vocational and adult education and training. She has been taking part in the following national developments: performing a leading expert role in developing learning outcomes requirements as well as program requirements; defining the set of digital competences of trades; working as expert in projects; and elaborating and holding trainings for VET teachers. She is currently participating in the implementation of Erasmus+ projects, both mobilities and partnerships, as an Erasmus+ project coordinator at Gourmand Vocational Secondary School.
She worked as an ECVET expert for 8 years from its introduction, and since 2021, has continued working as one of the members of the newly established National VET Team.Her motto is "There are only two days in a year when you can do nothing. One is yesterday, the other is tomorrow.” (Dalai Lama)
dr. Zsuzsanna PUSZTAI
Dr. Zsuzsanna Pusztai graduated as a lawyer from the Faculty of Public and Legal Studies in Eötvös Loránd University. She has been working in the field of general education and vocational training and training since 2011, where she gained experience both as an institution maintainer and as a legislator and policy manager. Since 2022, as an employee of the Innovative Training Support Centre (ITSC) she has had the opportunity to get to know, more closely and directly, the work, challenges, and best practices of vocational education and training institutions - through the professional support provided by the Innovative Training Support Centre to the managers and teachers of vocational education and training institutions. She works as a professional deputy director at ITSC. Within the framework of CEDEFOP's ReferNet project, she contributes to the preparation of professional materials and publications related to the Hungarian vocational education and training system.
Éva ROZMÁN
Since 2009, she has been working as the director of György Andrássy Catholic Economic Secondary School in Eger. She started her teaching career in 1990 as a mathematics-physics-informatics teacher, and later expanded her professional knowledge with a degree in economics. Using her professional experience in the corporate field, she paid particular attention to make vocational education and training focus more on practice. She is a consultant as well as a certified expert of the Innovative Training Support Centre. She worked in the national ECVET team from2013 when ECVET activity was launched, primarily on the national implementation of the learning outcomes-based work program used during foreign internships, as well as the development possibilities of the quality of internships. Since 2021, she has been supporting Erasmus+ applicants and beneficiaries in the field of vocational education and training as one of the experts of the National VET Team. She has represented Hungary at several international conferences, workshops, PLAs and presented the best practices of Hungarian vocational education and training.
Éva TÓTH
She works as an English teacher in Petrik Lajos Bilingual Secondary Vocational School of Budapest Technical Vocational Centre, the editor-in-chief of the education portal of ‘Modern School’, an eTwinning ambassador in the Budapest region, and an EU CodeWeek lead teacher, and a Digital Theme Week ambassador. She has always worked in vocational education – at the beginning of her career, she taught disadvantaged students for 6 years, during which time she learnt a lot from them and will always be grateful for those years. She is also an active participant in the Digital Theme Week and Coding Week programmes as a project manager. She believes that project pedagogy provides a great opportunity to develop students' 21st century skills by combining subjects. Due to this reason, she is happy that for 2 years, she has had the opportunity to work on projects with the students in school lessons within the framework of the subject of ‘ICT project work’.
Her projects are connected to vocational education and training; she considers it particularly important, as students in vocational education and training greatly need to participate in cooperative work that develops skills that are significant in the 21st century. Project-based development of skills perfectly suited to theme weeks or the eTwinning programmes. That is why she views projects as a kind of bridge between school and the world of work. According to her experience, although there is a great demand for introducing education supported by digital methods in schools, frequently, due to the lack of appropriate professional support or background, teachers do not even dare to try it. She likes to provide practical lessons and workshops that can be implemented in the classroom even the next day, and which can be connected to eTwinning and project pedagogy.
Judit Emma TÓTH
She is an economist, teacher of business skills, internal auditor, graduate of the first year of the Europe of Nations Career Program. Her essence of life is learning and continuous development: she speaks three foreign languages (English, German, and French) and has a qualification as a professional French interpreter. She participated in several national and European Union education and development projects as a project manager.
Being the member of a family of teachers, education has always played an important role in her life. After a few years working as an event organizer, in 2013, she started working in agricultural vocational education and training, where she quickly got involved in the Erasmus+ programmes, first as an accompanying teacher, and later from 2016, as an international coordinator of 4 schools. Since 2020, she has been working as an international coordinator of 11 schools, supporting students and colleagues to gain international experience. Thanks to her devoted work in 2022, she received a Ministerial certificate of recognition from Dr. István Nagy, the Minister of Agriculture.
She has already visited 36 countries on 4 continents, thanks to which she has acquired an extensive international network of contacts. In 2022, on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Erasmus+ programme, the Tempus Public Foundation selected her as one of the faces of Erasmus+, thanks to which she represented Hungary on two occasions in Brussels at various meetings.
