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Ten years ago, on March 16th, 2011, the Hungarian Parliament decided to establish Ludovika - University of Public Service.

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. 

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. 

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.

Hungary has a long tradition of higher education and academic excellence with state-of-the-art research facilities, people with outstanding creativity, knowledge, focused on delivering the best on their part for humankind, country and the world. This world-class education system and cutting-edge research and innovation tradition will set a milestone for accelerating future scientific research and economic development. That’s why our alumni volunteer Aidana Smagul decided to make an interview with Yedil Myrzakhanov, who is currently a consul at the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Budapest. 

Széchenyi Duo competition is a successful event of the University of Győr that supports student innovation by embracing entrepreneurial ideas and research with business potential. As part of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office’s (NRDI) University Innovation Ecosystem project, in 2021 three award-winning teams created prototypes in connection with carbon fibre composites, orthopaedic braces and creative clothing.

The time has come to introduce our international alumni volunteer team with 34 people from 17 countries speaking 23 different languages. In the third chapter of our volunteer series, you can read Mohammed’s story from Sudan! He studied in Hungary between 2018 and 2020at the University of Debrecen and now he is project coordinator at Muhu Liha Tulundusühistu (food commercial association) in Estonia. 

The awakening nature calls us to wake up too and shake off the winter’s melancholy. February is the month of various vivid carnivals and feasts. Have you heard of Farsang – the Hungarian Carnival or the Busójárás? Have you ever tried the carnival doughnut or blessed with holy water? Here is a list of our essential traditions – let’s check them out!

During the COVID-19 epidemic, we have seen an unprecedented fast development of the vaccine that is right now the most effective way to fight coronavirus. This extremely swift scientific achievement could not have been possible without the years-long mRNA research of the Hungarian-born biochemist, and alumna of the University of Szeged, Katalin Karikó. In this article you can learn more about her discovery for which many – including the famous scientific intellectual, Richard Dawkins – suggest, she should win the Nobel Prize. 

MIT and Harvard Medical School have announced a ten-week healthcare innovation online training, aiming to develop an entrepreneurial viewpoint paired with innovation. Out of a large number of applicants, Imre Simon, a colleague of the University of Pécs 3D Printing and Visualization Centre was one of the few selected to participate, and he and his team ended the esteemed competition in second place.