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We kick off the 2025 ANH webinar series on 21 May with an inspiring webinar on sustainable tourism. From the everyday significance of waterfronts to their booming popularity in global travel, this session explores how we can protect what draws us in. Featuring Dr. Judit Sulyok, a leading expert on Lake Balaton and tourism mobility, the webinar offers fresh insights and practical approaches to creating a more sustainable future for our most cherished natural destinations.

🚀🌟Ready to take an active role in the Hungarian alumni community? Alumni Network Hungary is on the lookout for fresh, motivated faces to join our International Alumni Volunteer Team for the 2025–2027 term. It’s a great opportunity to build your network, develop new skills, and help promote Hungarian higher education around the world. Here is what you need to know!

Hungarian universities always have surprising news and global effect on us! Read our article, and learn about the latest self-driving car research of BME, or the first robot-assisted kidney removal. You will also get to know, why you can read József Attila’s poems in the Seoul Metro with Korean translation.

Whether you are already a member of Alumni Network Hungary or are currently pursuing your studies in Hungary and considering joining, this is an excellent time to explore what the network offers. With a continuously growing membership, the network has significantly enhanced its range of services, providing valuable opportunities for its members.

Perhaps the greatest challenge for humanity in the 21st century is to fight against environmental degradation with better waste management, and developing new technologies, from space faring down to helping nature heal. We all live on this planet and we must protect it. From governments and organisations down to individuals, everyone can help tackle problem. From managing radioactive waste, and inventing new technologies at the University of Miskolc for sustainability, even young children can help with the supervision of MOME by planting new trees. Discover how the fight is far from over!

Research at Hungarian universities never stops. In every field, from the tiniest scales like crushing atoms and revolutionising cancer treatments – all the way to examining distant stars, research spreads like a sea of flowers, improving our everyday life.

Alumni from all over the world are invited to the International Alumni Meeting of Semmelweis University! Meet your old friends and professors from Hungary on the 17th and 18th May!

In December, we concluded this year’s Alumni Hungary webinar series with an outstanding talk by Dr. Zijian Győző Yang, a research fellow at the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics. He discussed the creation of large language models, such as ChatGPT, and shared insights into the development of PULI, the largest Hungarian language model. We also interviewed him about his research and perspectives on these groundbreaking technologies.

In November, the Alumni Network Hungary hosted Szilvia Juhász, PhD cancer researcher and the leader of the Cancer Microbiome Core Group at the Hungarian Centre of Excellence for Molecular Medicine (HCEMM) in Szeged. In our interview, she discussed her team’s research on the complex connection between the microbiome and cancer and highlighted the role of diet in gut health.

Join us on December 10 for a webinar exploring the most transformative AI applications of our time—ChatGPT. Discover how large language models like ChatGPT are built and gain insights into their immense scale and capabilities. Dr. Zijian Győző Yang, a leading researcher at the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, will guide us through the world of AI language models, including the groundbreaking development of the Hungarian PULI models.