Here on our webpage and on our Instagram.

The information available in this FAQ section and on this website is being updated monthly. If you have any unanswered questions, you can reach out to us at info@bme.esn.hu.

Our primary communication channel is WhatsApp. One month before their semester at our university begins, exchange students receive an invite to our WhatsApp community through e-mail. This is where you can expect the quickest reply from our mentors and this is where the most recent information about ESN BME is shared.

Our Office is in BME Building R, room R101/2. For opening hours, please check our Instagram page.

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Not all of our events require registration. For the ones where registration is required, you will receive information via e-mail and WhatsApp during the semester and you will be asked to fill out a form to register to the event.

Yes, you can come to all the events even if you don’t have the ESNcard.

Trip plans for the whole semester are published on our social media platforms; primarily Instagram, but we send out an event calendar with all of our trips planned for every semester.

If it is an emergency, then call the emergency number: 112 (they speak English and German too), the emergency services will tell you what to do.
If you need immediate treatment, but it’s not serious enough to go to the emergency room, you can call the háziorvosi ügyelet (the doctor on call). They may decide to take you in to the hospital. 

If it is not an emergency, then go to (or call) the háziorvosi rendelő (the GP’s office) He will prescribe medications. You will get a recept (prescription) and a lelet (examination results). Go to a gyógyszertár (pharmacy) to buy the medications. The pharmacist will explain how to take the medications.
Your doctor may also forward you to a szakrendelés (specialist doctor) at a hospital. He will also give you a beutaló (referral) which is necessary to visit a specialist doctor. For hospital treatment, normally you need a referral, but in urgent cases you don’t need it. 

Find out more aout health services in Hungary here. 

A doctor’s office is only responsible for handling an area within the district. You can usually find the location and opening times of your háziorvosi rendelő (GP's) at the website of your district (or by asking your neighbours/landlord). You are also free to change your doctor and register at a different one. 

Here you can find the doctor’s offices:

District 8 

District 9 

District 11 

For other districts look here 

There is an optical store and a doctor’s office at the ground floor of Building T. You need there to register there first. 

Go to their website.

In Google Maps, search for "gyógyszertár". They usually close around 20:00, but there are pharmacies which are open 0-24; you may need to ring a bell or knock. To find them, you can search in Google Maps for "24 órás gyógyszertár". 

Here you can find a list of 0-24 pharmacies in Budapest: click here.

Most doctors speak enough English to understand what you need. But some may not, so communicate with a smile and a lot of patience. You can also ask a friend who speaks Hungarian to help you. 

To be safe, you can also install an app for translation - it is no substitute for asking help for a friend or mentor, but it can be useful. We recommend using DeepL for translation (it has worked well in our experience).

If you need medications, but don’t want to go to a doctor, you can buy medications without getting a prescription. However, without a prescription only basic medications or medical equipment can be bought, those which don’t have serious side-effects. 

Common medications:
Go to (or call) a pharmacy, explain to the pharmacist that you need medications, and ask which medications he would recommend for you. If you are ill, you can ask your roommate to go buy for you. For fever and pain, commonly taken medications which can be purchased without a prescription are Nurofen (ibuprofen), Rubophen (paracetamol), Cataflam (diclofenac) and Algopyrin (metamizole). 

EHIC is a free card that gives you access to medically necessary, state-provided healthcare during a temporary stay in Hungary under the same conditions and at the same cost as people insured in the country. 

If you have not applied for an EHIC card yet, you can find out more about it here.

You can refer to this website to see what an EHIC covers in Hungary.

Please refer to the Accomodation page of this website.