The thermal insulation of buildings, technical building systems, vehicles or even refrigeration boxes could be significantly improved by the widespread use of aerogel vacuum insulation sheets developed at the University of Debrecen's Faculty of Technology. For their results and the paper summarising them, the researchers have been awarded the Publication Prize of the Gróf Tisza István Foundation for the University of Debrecen and the University of Debrecen.
Publications related to bone structure changes during cartilage loss have been collected, analysed and evaluated by a research group with the participation of Tamás Oláh, assistant professor at the University of Debrecen. Their scientific findings may help future research on this topic and may also be useful in healing. The article presenting the results of the research was awarded the Publication Prize of the Count István Tisza Foundation for the University of Debrecen and the University of Debrecen.
A delegation from the Faculty of Technology of the University of Debrecen held talks with five leading Chinese universities and representatives of three major engineering companies, during which joint education and research programmes were prepared. Several agreements were reached that will contribute to strengthening the international position of the faculty in the long term.
The meeting between the University of Debrecen and the higher education institutions of the Republic of the Philippines, held by Endre Harsányi with the Ambassador of the Southeast Asian island state, could launch new educational and research cooperation. The delegation of Maria Elena P Algabre was received on Thursday by the Vice Rector for Sector Development, responsible for the development of agricultural and food sciences, at the Böszörményi Road campus.
The women's tennis team led by Dean Kinga Bágyi achieved the best result in its history at the European University Games. At the tournament in Portugal, the university's athletes finished in third place.
The findings of research conducted by experts at the University of Debrecen may facilitate the application of new therapeutic options in treating abnormal vascular formation. Abnormal retinal vascularization plays a major part in the development of a number of eye diseases. Researchers have observed that this process can be inhibited through the use of certain agents. The article that sums up the results of the research project, published in a prestigious international scientific journal, has been awarded Publication Prize of the University of Debrecen and Count István Tisza Foundation for the University of Debrecen.
The biggest party of the 2025/2026 academic year is just around the corner, with the ninth stadium show promising to be more massive than any of the previous ones. Tickets for the biggest university party of the current year can be purchased via a brand new online interface. The new website features quite a few of surprises and a lot of useful information, with even artificial intelligence answering queries about yoUDay.
The nests of which host species are most often chosen by birds that leave the hatching and rearing of their offspring to others? This is the question that a researcher from the University of Debrecen sought to answer in the framework of an international collaboration using data collected about more than 6,000 bird species worldwide.
Thanks to research conducted at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Debrecen, we are a few steps closer to overcoming ALS, a hitherto and currently incurable neurological disease. The researchers working on exploring and curing this disease will be awarded the Publication Prize of Count István Tisza Foundation for the University of Debrecen and the University of Debrecen.
This year, almost 80 students from as many as 27 countries are coming to Debrecen Summer School to learn Hungarian language and culture. At the current summer course, which lasts from July 21 to August 15, the youngest student is 16 years of age, while the oldest is 86. The number of young people learning the Hungarian language abroad is growing, and more and more start to learn Hungarian because of their family ties and heritage.
More participants than ever before attended the twenty-fourth Summer Academy masterclasses at the Faculty of Music of the University of Debrecen and Zoltán Kodály World Youth Orchestra also gave a concert of extraordinary quality. According to Judit Váradi, the artistic director of the related series of events, this success is yet another confirmation that the Summer Academy is much needed and its prestige is growing both nationally and internationally.
István Pócsi and Tamás Emri, professors from the Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Microbiology at the University of Debrecen, are ranked among the best in the world for their outstanding achievements in fungal stress biology. They research human, plant and insect pathogenic fungi as well as industrial microorganisms, while their research could also be relevant for industrial and pharmaceutical development.