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Homecoming Forum 2007

Homecoming Forum 2007. March 24, 2007, Washington, D.C. Looking back…. Organizing the Homecoming Forum 2003: 6-7 people Several F2F meetings Government representative attending Dozen pages long final document Press conference and media reports 2007 1-2 people Basically no meetings

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Homecoming Forum 2007

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  1. Homecoming Forum 2007 March 24, 2007, Washington, D.C.

  2. Looking back… Organizing the Homecoming Forum • 2003: • 6-7 people • Several F2F meetings • Government representative attending • Dozen pages long final document • Press conference and media reports • 2007 • 1-2 people • Basically no meetings • No Government representative • Could not finish a one-pager • Press?

  3. What is the Homecoming Forum? • Knowledge and skill transfer • Importing entrepreneurship • Reconnecting to Hungary • Opening new bridges by-passing Government • Professional networking • Promoting movement of labor • Helping returnees

  4. Selective Goals 2003-2006 • To capitalize on Hungarian and Hungarian-American intellectuals, scientists, businesspersons, and celebrities living in the U.S. • To keep these professionals in the intellectual, cultural, and financial circulation of their homeland. • To demonstrate the mutual benefits that Hungary and its expatriates could gain. • The Forum purported to be a launch pad for a more continuous, systematic, and institutionalized exchange of information between Hungary's public and private sectors and the new generation Hungarian expatriates living in the U.S. • Strengthening ties with professional circles, associations, and organizations in Hungary. • Facilitating professional networking among the Young Professionals through professional groups and by exchanges between the Regional Initiatives. • To discuss and evaluate the experience of the new generation of Hungarian professionals and students in the US.

  5. O O O O O Action Items in 2003 To facilitate the return of young professionals and achieve a “contra brain-drain”: • Eliminate administrative roadblocks, from deadlines that are our of synch to taking in working tools (mostly government action) • Make working conditions attractive (private and public sector): • Recognize skills and learning of those returning • Make available positions commensurate with background • Recognize independence & level of responsibility gained here and extend same there • Be open to suggestions and new methods advocated by those returning • Strive to ensure that opportunities are based on merit and that lack of connections does not hinder placement (private and public sector) • Offer incentives for return and resettlement, particularly if investment or costly infrastructure (e.g. labs) needed (mostly public sector) • Adjust of institutional/legal framework/apparatus to encourage returnees (public sector)

  6. P P P P Action Items in 2003 Support network established to address concerns of those returning, those seeking study or work opportunities in the US, and those in such programs: • Advertise opportunities (private and public sector) • Give assistance in establishing connections, both in the US and in Hungary (public and private sector) • Establish alumni groups for those returning from the US (private sector) • Enable and support connections between institutions and firms looking for US trained professionals and those wishing to return (private and public sector)

  7. Why Not Working? • Network • Lack of cooperation • Dispersed/competing efforts • Outreach • Lack of local champions • Lack of interest • Funding • Lack of resources • No tangible/measurable results • Long-term impact • Other challenges • Mission statement • Audience • Benchmarks

  8. How to Make It Work? • Lessons Learnt • Issue/project driven • Resource pooling • Partners in Hungary (alternative channels) • Ownership • Sustainability • PMP (task, task team leaders, goal, deadlines, stakeholders, benchmarks, monitoring & reporting, etc.) • Replicability

  9. The HunEx Project • HunEx Project • HunEx Portal • HunEx Forum • HunEx Network

  10. HunEx Forum – to be continued… Thank you for your attention.

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