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Blanka Nagy won second place in the Junior and Cadet Fencing World Championships in Wuxi, China. The student of the Kossuth Lajos Secondary and Primary School of the University of Debrecen lost to Canada’s Julia Yin in the final after extremely close matches and collected the World Championship silver in addition to the Cadet World Championship that she had won two years earlier.

Teachers of German from top-priority German language training institutions of Debrecen’s Vocational Training Center (Debreceni Szakképzési Centrum - DSZC) came to a special further training session hosted by the University of Debrecen (UD) on Thursday. The event also included a workshop for language teachers on corporate communication, organized by the companies British Telecommunications, Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions, Schaeffler Debrecen and Transcosmos Hungary.

The Institute of German Studies at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Debrecen (DE) hosted the regional final of the national German language competition "Sprichst du Deutsch" again this year. More than 1400 participants took part in the national competition, organised in cooperation with Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions, and the ten best students had the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge at Tuesday's event in the Main Building.

More than 145 thousand viewers have seen the Jerusalema dance challenge clip of Practice Kindergarten of the UD posted at the largest video sharing website of the world. All the employees working for the Hajdúböszörmény-based institution joined the initiative voluntarily without exception.

High-school teachers learned about local multinational companies and workplace environment in the service sector at a workshop organised jointly by the University of Debrecen and the Debrecen BSC roundtable.

Lego robots matched their skills on Wednesday in Debreceni Egyetem gyakorlóiskolája [Grade School of the University of Debrecen]. The programmable robots had been constructed by kids in their extracurricular robotics classes.

Should “shooting” be introduced as a subject in Hungarian schools? Should mobile phones be banned from classrooms? – secondary school students of the region were debating about these current issues in German at the Kossuth Lajos Training School of the University of Debrecen.