Innovation, science and research

Digital networking and continuous monitoring of the news have become an essential part of today's connectivity. Being a freshly graduated student or experienced alumni is a different stage of our life and there are many treasures in our huge alumni community. Damilia Arzybekova, our alumni volunteer, created the BudapestMate social media pages to encourage young people with exciting alumni life after studies and show carrier-ways with various professional backgrounds.

When the SZE-SAT team of Széchenyi István University was founded, it set itself the goal of putting a satellite of its own design into the sky. The students have reached an important stage in this process, as they have completed and tested the module that will soon be able to broadcast the name of the institution and Győr to the countries of the world, announcing that Széchenyi István University has entered space. In December, the satellite of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) will carry the Győr-developed communication panel into the cosmos.

This time again we introduce you to one of our volunteers of our international team with 30 people from 215 countries speaking 23 different languages. In this chapter of our volunteer series, you can read Dr. Lillian Achola Oluoch’s story from Kenya! She studied in Hungary and did her doctoral degree between 2016-2021 at the University of Szeged and now she is a Lecturer in the Department of Statistics and Computational Mathematics, at The Technical University of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.

We have a new volunteer team for the next two years with 40 members from 28 countries and speaking more than 20 different languages. In this chapter of our volunteer series, you can read Dr Farzad Rayegani’s story from Iran and Canada! He is our senior volunteer and studied and worked in Hungary between 1987 and 2000. Now, he is the Senior Dean at Humber College, Toronto and here you can read his exciting way to this title and job.

Autonomous driving technology is rapidly developing, and it completely changes the automotive industry, transportation, and our everyday lives. We interviewed the presenter of the September edition of the Alumni Hungary Webinar Series, Professor Zsolt Szalay, the Head of the Department of Automotive Technologies at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and the Head of Research and Innovation of ZalaZONE Automotive Proving Ground on this increasingly growing industry.

Dr Orsolya Benedek fondly remembers the 1990s, when she was a student at the Medical University of Pécs. Orsolya is currently working at the University of Rostock at the Institute of Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene as a specialist, instructor, head of quality management, and director of the hygiene- and water microbiology laboratory. Read the interview of the University of Pécs with her! 

The time has come to introduce our international alumni volunteer team with 34 people from 17 countries speaking 23 different languages. In this chapter of our volunteer series, you can read Raghawendra Sisodia’s story from India! He did his doctoral research in Hungary between 2017-2021 at the University of Miskolc, and now he continues his academic carrier.

Space research is aimed to be an increasingly important field in the scientific portfolio of the University of Debrecen. UD has recently been visited by the first Hungarian cosmonaut, where he learned about the university’s space research program that includes solutions for long-term stay in space, space diet and sustainable cultivation practices among others.

In July the presenter of the Alumni Hungary Webinar Series was the internationally acclaimed ethologist, Ádám Miklósi, the head of the Ethology Department and the director of the Institute of Biology at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). In his webinar, Professor Miklósi showed how ethology, the scientific study of animal behavior, can help the development of social robots.

An international student team of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) won a special award for their project entitled “WIMCY – Welcome into My Church Yard” at the prestigious Urban Design Award international contest. Read more about their concept that aims to improve the living conditions of slums.