István Kollai

Experience

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  International Training Center for Bankers

  Sept 2004 - Dec 2007

  Junior Consultant

  Monitoring,evaluation and training of Hungarian government bodies being responsible for delivering the EU funds (National Development Agency and other managing organisations). Setting the training agendas, developing and revising training materials for courses "Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund", editing and co-writing of guidebooks on management of EU-funded projects.

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  National Development Agency

  May 2008 - Sept 2010

  Analyst Officer

  Monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of the Development Agency through setting up a report system with automatic measurement solutions. Identifying the external and internal factors influencing the effectiveness of the EU funding system, and giving answers to the weak factors highlighted.

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  Hungarian Institute in Bratislava

  Oct 2010 - Jun 2015

  Director

  Day-to-day technical and financial administration of the institute; designing, monitoring and implementing the strategic plans on a yearly basis. Keeping contact with local and international partners, building networks in Central and Eastern Europe. Inventing own project initiatives and participating in cultural and scientific projects launched by others.

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  Peripatos

  Apr 2016 - Dec 2018

  Executive

  Peripatos is an audioguide application for smartphones, specially developed for education and tourism purpose. It tells you stories about the horizon you see, when traveling by train, boat, bus, or if you take walking trips. - Click here to download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blueobject.peripatosapp- Our website is peripatos-app.com.The specialities of our audioguide are the followings:- It transforms written text into spoken speech, which makes the creation (and the amendment) of new content very rapid and easy. - It has an open editor platform where our partners can develop, test and change their own tours - it makes the content management flexible.- Background music can be choosen which fills the silent sections between two stops.- Quizes can be also added which has to be answered in stops.- The whole material can be downloaded at the end of the tour in PDF form, which helps learning process (if the tour has an educational aim). Show less

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  Institute of Social Anthropology, Comenius University Bratislava

  Sept 2022 - now

  Marie Curie Fellow

  General research focus: effect of historical consciousness on late-modern capitalisms.Particular focus (SASPRO - Marie Curie Fellow): social embeddedness of castle renovations programs into local cultural landscape in Slovakia.