The 11th Campus Sports festival has come to an end. Close to a thousand students from four countries competed in the events. The Debrecen students won gold medals in futsal, men’s basketball, and women’s badminton.

The University of Debrecen and the Hungarian Research Institute have embarked on research in the fields of ethnography, history, archeogenetics, and religion history. The cooperation agreement was signed by rector Zoltán Szilvássy and the director general.

Outsourced training will be started by the University of Debrecen at the Partium Christian University in mechanical engineering and rural development engineering at a bachelor’s level and specialised studies further training.

The special fluoresent compounds developed by the researchers of the Department of Applied Chemistry of the faculty of Science and technology, University of Debrecen, can also be used in cancer diagnostics, cell biology, and analytics.

The UD has made it to the list of Europe Teaching Rankings 2019 made by Times Higher Education in terms of teaching excellence for the first time ever, coming out immediately as a finalist among Hungarian universities. The ranking examined 258 institutions of higher education of 18 countries.

Young talents from twenty countries are taking part in the International Summer Academy of Young Musicians. This year, the Faculty of Music of the University of Debrecen stages its summer programme, unique in Hungary, between 14 and 23 July.

Two new, a medical and and ecological, „Lendület” research groups will be established at the UD, in addition to the ten that are already operating successfully. The 16 winning candidates were announced at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences to receive a total of 540 million HUF this year.

The Clinical Centre of the UD conducts research in the field of the Higher Education Excellence Programme using the most up-to-date technology of MI, Big Data, and cloud computing. Teaching of the novel methods, with the participation of Microsoft Magyarország Kft., ended on Wednesday.

A further two groups, one consisting of 16 universitiy students and another, consisting of 21 middle school students, have finished their one year-long studies at the UD. In China the János Arany Centre has been inaugurated, whose aim is to facilitate the teaching of Hungarian in China.

A structural testing and analytical instrument centre, unique in Hungary, has been established at the Department of Chemistry of the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Debrecen. The total value of the three up-to-date instruments exceeds 780 million HUF.