The University of Debrecen and Schaeffler Debrecen Kft. have recently signed a sponsorship agreement. Accordingly, the university students are going to build an electric car that they plan to use to enter the Formula Student series competition next year. The German company, which manufactures bearings and automotive electronic systems in Debrecen, will be supporting the UD Formula Student team as a chief sponsor in the future.
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BMW is to establish a business service center in Debrecen. The center, which is expected to handle international financial and logistics tasks, will be completed with an investment of HUF 1.7 billion, of which the central government provides approximately HUF 425 million in funding, thereby creating 50 new high value-added jobs. The new business unit of the University of Debrecen’s strategic partner will support the development of global accounting and customs processes, as well as the operational conditions of the European factory network of the BMW Group.
BMW Group Plant in Debrecen and the University of Debrecen are determined about further strengthening their collaboration. According to a new agreement between them, the general practitioner (GP) services of our Clinical Center are available as of now to plant employees for their primary healthcare needs. This latest agreement clearly reveals the value-creating effect of this cooperation between higher education and industry.
A dual degree that is unique in Europe may be earned by the four Hungarian students who have been the first to win scholarships for a program run in cooperation between the University of Debrecen and South Dakota State University (SDSU) in the United States. These selected students from the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Science and Environmental Management, who will study at South Dakota State University for two semesters as part of their precision agricultural engineering training, will be leaving for the overseas institution on Wednesday.
Pharmapolis Debrecen Innovative Pharmaceutical Cluster has held a general assembly meeting. There were 27 member organizations present at the event held at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Debrecen, where these members formulated new objectives and re-elected the management.
As a consequence of the automotive investments in Debrecen, our city has become a new center of the automotive industry in Central Europe, which exerts significant influence on the life of Debrecen. In order to study the overall impact, a research group called DEB AUT has been established at the University of Debrecen, which examines how this kind of development affects employment, training needs, university structure, urban transport, cultural life and social mobility.
It is the first Hungarian space plant experiment, called Vitapric program, that the time capsules placed on Tuesday at the Böszörményi úti campus of the University of Debrecen are supposed to commemorate in the framework of the 4th Plant Breeding Memorial Day and Conference. These capsules contain items from the scientific experiments conducted by Tibor Kapu, the second Hungarian astronaut, as part of the mission Axiom-4 on board the International Space Station (ISS), including sowing seeds, documents and special implements. Bertalan Farkas, the first Hungarian astronaut, was also present at the placement of the capsules.
The University of Debrecen continues to maintain its leading position among Hungarian institutions of higher education in the QS sustainability rankings. It was ranked 322nd in the Sustainability 2026 world rankings published on Tuesday by the British ranking agency Quacquarelli Symonds, which makes it the best Hungarian institution. In the latest Shanghai Ranking Subject list, also published on Tuesday, UD was ranked in the 301-400 category in the field of ecology, again finishing as the best Hungarian university.
The new 2,700 square meter Vehicle Laboratory, built in the Science, Technology and Innovation Park of the University of Debrecen, will primarily be used for training and research related to the automotive industry. As part of an investment of nearly five billion forints, the facility has been supplied with state-of-the-art equipment, and workshops, laboratories, classrooms, offices, and a test track have also been created.
BMW Group Plant Debrecen has recently expanded its strategic partnership with the University of Debrecen. The strategic cooperation between the German car manufacturer and our institution of higher education, which has been in effect since 2023, has been joined by the Faculty of Humanities as well as the unit Agricultural Research Institutes and Experimental Farm. The relevant agreement was signed on Tuesday by the leaders of the university and those of the company.