Seven internationally renowned honorary doctors of the University of Pécs have been inaugurated at the Ceremonial Senate Meeting on 4 November at the dr. Halasy-Nagy Lecture Hall. They are prominent, respected professors, who have been actively working in close cooperation with the University of Pécs. Through their professional achievements on their respective fields as well as in the joint research projects with the faculties of the University they have greatly benefited the University of Pécs as well as Hungarian science. They all have given their inaugural adresses at the repective promoting faculties, which they have summarized at the Ceremonial Senate Meeting.
In January 2018, Erik Slooten arrived at the head of IT Services Hungary Kft./ Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions with nearly 20 years of senior management experience acquired in an international environment. He had worked at several global, market-leader mobile and ICT companies in regional positions, including in Slovakia with Slovak Telekom, the Czech Republic with GTS and T-Mobile, and Bulgaria with Vivacom. From August 2019, alongside his leadership of ITSH, he also undertook the global management of Public Cloud Service division at T-Systems International. His career is hallmarked by the introduction and transformation of major IT systems. In the course of his work he has achieved significant results, not only in the area of IT, but B2B sales, marketing and business development, too. As a manager committed to innovation, he is associated with several solutions introduced at international level. Beside technological innovations, he considers creating the possibility for the development of children for whom this opportunity is not available due to their social situation especially important. Accordingly, he initiated an educational programme where now more than 70 disadvantaged children are learning programming in Szendrőlád and Pécs.
