Almost one hundred students from a total of thirty-one different countries are going to learn about the Hungarian language and culture at this year’s Debrecen Summer School. The youngest participant is only fifteen years old, while the oldest is eighty, in a program that runs from July 20 through August 14. At the ceremonial opening held on Monday in the University Church Building, scholarship awardees also received their certificates.
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The city of Debrecen, together with the University of Debrecen, share an opportunity to emerge as one of the most important new centers of European electromobility and battery manufacturing. This assumption is also supported by a meeting on Thursday, during the course of which the management of our university received a high-ranking Chinese delegation in the Rector’s Council Chamber of the Main Building. The primary focus of the discussion at the meeting was the university’s official accession to the global professional association of its Far Eastern partners.
The cooperation between the University of Debrecen and the Slovak University of Agriculture (SUA) in Nitra is on the way to expand by involving new academic fields of study. Apart from their collaboration in agricultural and food sciences, the two institutions are now building closer connections in the fields of engineering and economics, too. The latest agreement between the two sides about, among other things, faculty and student exchanges, joint conferences and research projects was signed on Thursday, July 9.
At a ceremony held on Saturday, July 4, in the venue called Aula of its Main Building, the University of Debrecen inaugurated 104 new doctors. Titles for habilitated doctorate and Professor Emeritus status, as well as Excellence Ph.D. Scholarships of the Count István Tisza Foundation for the University of Debrecen were also awarded at the event.
Students of architecture from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Debrecen achieved outstanding results at an international student design competition named CASA. Three of the ten best entries selected by the international jury at this prestigious competition were prepared by Debrecen students.
The Faculty of Engineering of the University of Debrecen has concluded an agreement with EVE Power Hungary Kft. on the development of practice-oriented engineering programs, the training of new talent in shortage occupations and the launching of a targeted education program. The agreement was officially signed on Thursday, July 2.
The University of Debrecen has recently signed a cooperation agreement with two Chinese universities in order to establish joint training programs with them. This agreement was signed on Thursday in the presence of the leaders of Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) and East China University of Technology (ECUT). The joint program projects will hopefully start in 2027.
The first in a row of summer graduation ceremonies of the current year was held by the University of Debrecen on Thursday. There were almost 300 students from the Faculty of Engineering receiving their diplomas at the ceremony, which was held in the Inner Courtyard of the Main Building, while a number of special honors and awards were also presented.
A team of eight students represented the Department of Civil Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Debrecen at the Middle European Planning Seminar held in Poděbrady, Czech Republic. At the Middle European International Urban Planning Workshop, these participants were able to test their engineering knowledge in an international environment, gaining insight into the unique educational methods and standards of other countries and solving real-world urban planning challenges through hands-on practical projects.
Students enrolled in the MSc program in Drug Development Research Management at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Debrecen, recently participated in a comprehensive training program. Their interactive training began with a theoretical foundation, which was then continued with a practical session at a company based in Dunakeszi that provides, among other things, services in biotechnology and pharmaceutical research as well as analytics.