The now-traditional international student conference hosted by the Faculty of Science and Technology (TTK) at the University of Debrecen covered a wide range of exciting topics from drone wing technology to the urban heat island effect and nanotechnology. The event’s goal is to promote research and foster scientific collaboration among the faculty’s extremely diverse community, which brings together more than a hundred nationalities.
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An English-language Facebook page named Humaniora has been launched to promote news and events related to the study of the humanities at the University of Debrecen (UD). The objective of Humaniora is to present our institution’s educational and scholarly achievements to as broad an audience abroad as possible, thereby increasing the development of international relationships at the student, faculty, researcher and academic levels alike.
Recent developments in ancient Greek and Roman epigraphy and papyrology were in the focus of a two-day international conference on epigraphy, held on May 7 and 8, 2026, by the Department of Classical Philology and Ancient History at the Institute of History, Faculty of Humanities (BTK) of the University of Debrecen (UD). After the delivery of a welcome address in honor of founder György Németh in Sándor Karácsony Hall of the Main Building, the most distinguished Hungarian and international scholars in this field presented their latest research findings.
The Institute of History of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Debrecen and the Department of Military History of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń held their second joint Polish-Hungarian international historian symposium in Poland. The English-language conference served as a venue for experts in modern and contemporary history to disseminate their recent research.
The University of Debrecen (UD) and the Politehnica University of Timișoara launched a new project a few months ago with the aim of building a modern, cross-border environmental monitoring system. The researchers are using special bioindicators such as honey and tree sap to measure urban air pollution. The first findings of the ENVIREG project were discussed at a joint workshop in Debrecen on Tuesday.
Once again, the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Debrecen has served as a meeting place for the region’s economic stakeholders. At the 16th TTK Career Day, key players in the job market offered students direct job and internship opportunities, while the focus was on dual training programs, international perspectives, and majors tailored to Debrecen’s dynamically developing industry.
The Scimago Journal and Country Rank has ranked the International Review of Applied Sciences and Engineering, published by the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Debrecen, among the top 25 percent—that is, among the most prestigious academic journals—in one of its subject areas. According to Scimago, the journal also advanced in three other ranking categories last year.
An associate professor from the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management of the University of Debrecen (UD MÉK) has become the first Hungarian researcher to visit Bouvet Island, which is part of the Norwegian Antarctic Territory. As a member of an international scientific expedition, László Radócz spent two weeks on the glacier-covered island that has seen less than 200 visitors so far, fewer than outer space has.
After spending almost two hundred and three days in space and orbiting the Earth more than thirty-two hundred times, samples from Hungary’s first space plant experiment, called VITAPRIC program, have returned from the International Space Station (ISS) to Debrecen. The researchers of the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management at the University of Debrecen received the experimental materials for their current scientific project from astronaut Tibor Kapu on Monday at UD’s Biodrome, home to the space plant experiment program named HUNOR and the “birthplace” of our university’s space peppers. For the experts in Debrecen, this marked the beginning of a new phase in their research activities.
An international academic conference was hosted on March 6 and 7 in the Sándor Karácsony Hall of our Main Building by Memoria Hungariae Research Group and Hungarian-Dutch Relations Research Group of the University of Debrecen (UD) under the title “Relations of the Low Countries from the Middle Ages to the Present.” Apart from representatives of Hungarian institutions of higher education and public collections, there were also participants attending the conference from the Czech Republic and the Netherlands.