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European award for the diabetic tamagotchi

News · 12 May 2021

The team of the University of Pécs won an international innovation bronze medal with a virtual pet that helps children with diabetes. The team of four Brazilian students studying in the city achieved an excellent result representing the Medical School Institute of Transdisciplinary Discoveries (ITD) - UP reported.

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Óbuda University is the key partner in a new cancer research

News · 5 May 2021

What if the answer to treating cancer could be found in maths? That’s what the EU-funded Tamed Cancer project is attempting to find out. The project uses mathematical modelling to develop personalised cancer therapies. “Maths allows us to calculate optimal drug dosages, which in turn lets us develop therapy and treatment tailored to the individual patient’s unique needs,” says Levente Kovács, a professor at Óbuda University, the project’s lead partner. “This work represents a new approach to tumour therapy – one that ultimately aims to tame cancer.”

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Meet our alumni volunteers: Ayaz Shaikh

News · 28 Apr 2021

The time has come to introduce our international alumni volunteer team with 34 people from 17 countries speaking 23 different languages. In this part of our volunteer series, you can read Ayaz Shaikh’s story from India! He’s doing his doctoral studies in Hungary at the University of Debrecen and his research is about honey product development in Hungary and India.

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The sky is the limit! Space research in Hungary

News · 21 Apr 2021

As space technology has become one of the key industries of the future, Hungary also aspires to be an active part of the space market. In a previous article, we introduced you Puli Space Technologies, a Hungarian space tech company working with NASA. This time we give you a brief overview of the major milestones of the Hungarian space exploration of recent years.

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The translator behind Hungarian poems: Owen Good

News · 14 Apr 2021

On April 11 Hungarians celebrate National Poetry Day and its literary tradition isn’t so familiar among international student or foreign people living in Hungary.  First for fun, but later for building a bridge between cultures, Owen Good decided to translate contemporary work like poems written by Hungarian poets Renátó Fehér or Krisztina Tóth. 

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Meet our alumni volunteers: Feifei Wang

News · 31 Mar 2021

The time has come to introduce our international alumni volunteer team, which consists of 34 members from 15 countries, speaking 23 different languages! First, you can read Feifei Wang’s story from China who began her doctorate at ELTE Sports and Health Promotion program in 2017 and now she is a doctoral candidate. 

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Puli goes to the Moon – The Hungarian space company working with NASA

News · 24 Mar 2021

Space industry is expanding globally, and Hungary is also ambitious to take part in this growing field. According to Morgan Stanley, the revenue generated by the global space industry may increase to more than $1 trillion by 2040. In this article, you can learn more about the Hungarian space company, Puli Space Technologies that now works together with NASA in lunar research. 

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The network mobilizers: our alumni volunteers

News · 17 Mar 2021

The network can only be alive if the members are part of an active and creative community. Everything starts with small groups, even our alumni network is growing day by day and now has almost 5000 members. The same goes for our alumni volunteer group: today it consists of 30 enthusiastic people from 15 countries. Let's take a look behind the scenes and read this short summary of our volunteer programme.

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