Hírek Innovation címkével

From now on, electrical engineering students at UD will be able to learn how to use programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in an industrial environment. In connection with the new lab, representatives of companies operating in the region discussed opportunities for cooperation with the faculty.

The university of Debrecen has joined the Artificial Intelligence Coalition that seeks to promote research and use of artificial intelligence. UD may be involved in the activities of several working groups operating in the framework of the Coalition.

National Instruments Hungary Kft. (NI) has again decided to support the technical and scientific education of UD, this time by donating HUF 15 million. The delivery ceremony of the LabVIEW Multisim software licence took place on Tuesday at the Faculty of Engineering.

Researchers at the Faculty of Agriculture of UD have reduced the breeding time of carp to one third. The Fish Biology Laboratory has developed a technology that allows carps to achieve sexual maturity and marketable size in 12-13 months.

As part of a nationwide programme, simulation-based education will be developed at the Faculty of General Medicine from a grant of HUF 800 million. Some of the new assets added include lifelike patient simulators capable of producing symptoms, as well as a 3D anatomical board.

World-class technical developments will be realised in the Biomechanical Laboratory of the University of Debrecen. The high-tech devices, including the 3D printer capable of producing metal bone prosthetics, were dedicated at the 25th anniversary celebration of the laboratory.

With its educational, research and innovative activities connected to the TE-FOOD food safety and tracking system, the University of Debrecen may become an internationally recognised competency centre. The related agreement was signed by UD and the Laurel Group on 18 October.

Clinical pharmaceutical investigations have been going on at the University of Debrecen for twenty-five years and the Pharmaceutical Development Coordination Centre established five years ago has raised the study of the most recent therapies about to be introduced to a new level.

Researchers at the University of Debrecen have succeeded in transforming extremely thin films of metal into a special alloy. The article on the new discovery and its relevant research background has been published in one of the top ten periodicals on materials science, Progress in Materials Science.

The University of Debrecen is to establish a proton therapy institute on the basis of an agreement signed earlier with Rusatom International Network, which is going to be the first step in the cooperation with Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Students from Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management have won the contest called Health Venture Competition of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. The gold medal they have received has been awarded for their millets (cereal) based line of products.

Students of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Debrecen are preparing for this year’s Shell Eco-marathon with Hunor, one of the country’s most energy efficient vehicles. The world’s leading energy efficiency competition is organised in London between July 5 and 8.

Researchers from the Institute of Physics of the University of Debrecen were working on improving the precision and efficiency of medical accelerators at athe medical technology hackathon in Geneva.

Through an investment of about 100 million euros, a new plant is to be established in Debrecen by the German technological giant Continental, creating 450 new jobs. An important part in making this decision has been played by the knowledge base represented by the University of Debrecen.

Representatives of the University of Debrecen and the German thyssenkrupp Components Technology Group, who are to establish a new plant in Debrecen, signed an agreement on cooperation in education and research on Monday.

Researchers of the University of Debrecen have made a major breakthrough in the observation of living cells. In fact, they have constructed a unique video-microscope system the use of which opens up new vistas in cancer research and pharmacology.

Students and instructors at the Faculty of Engineering do not even get a chance to “let the steam off” these days, as they are working on preparing the alternative fuel vehicles of their own design to enter a domestic and the international Shell Eco-marathon Europe race to be held later in London.

The “secret of youth” is the chief focus of research at the one and only Department of Gerontology in the nation through a laboratory equipped with the most modern nanostring technology.

The University of Debrecen has signed a cooperation framework agreement with Ganz Engineering és Energetikai Gépgyártó Kft [Ganz Engineering and Energy Production Machinery LLC]. The company proposed to hand over to the university unique estate of Láng Gépgyár [Láng Machine Factory].

A discovery of key importance has been made by researchers of the UD during the course of investigating gene regulators that are responsible for various types of cancer among other things. Their findings have also appeared in the prestigious publishing house of Oxford University Press.

The University of Debrecen intends to be the first in Europe to introduce DEMOLA, the Finnish business incubation model, in the field of agriculture.