Sixteen students and twelve teachers were awarded prizes at the award ceremony of the "APP&X" competition of the Bolyai János Mathematical Society on 20 January 2024. The competition, open to students in grades 3-13, was supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the HAS Alumni Programme for Secondary Schools.

After forty-four years, a Hungarian astronaut can make history again. Hungary is sending a research astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS) to conduct scientific experiments during a nearly month-long expedition as part of the HUNOR - Hungarian Astronaut Programme.

Applications are now open for this year's Dr Imre Balogh Memorial Competition, with entries due by 15 May.

As the custodian of Hungary's written cultural heritage, the National Széchényi Library is continuously digitising and publishing the oeuvre of the Hungarian authors who have been released from copyright obligations. On the occasion of the Hungarian Culture Day, the National Széchényi Library has made around 180 works available for free access and downloading on the renewed Hungarian Electronic Library, which contains around 25 000 items.

László Kovács, Brigadier General, Professor of the Department of Electronic Warfare of the University of Public Service, was awarded the title of Doctor of Sciences for his scientific thesis entitled The Strategic Approach to Cyber Security. His main research interests are the comparison of national strategies for cyber warfare and the development of a timeless national strategy to keep pace with the threat of hostile attacks on computer systems in the era of rapidly evolving information technology, artificial intelligence and quantum computing. In our series on Professors of the Hungarian Adcademy of Sciences, we feature researchers who have won the title for their achievements in a wide range of disciplines.

Tamás Freund, President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, told to Népszava: although the Horizont programme is indispensable to mitigate the damage, political obstacles must be removed as soon as possible to ensure that all Hungarian research institutions are once again full and equal participants in the European research area, free of discrimination.

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The University of Debrecen has established a pilot, i.e. a medium-sized research laboratory, which is unique in Hungary. The facility, which was built with almost HUF 5.2 billion, will also serve educational purposes and will significantly shorten the time to market for new types of vaccines, the project's closing event was held on Thursday.

For the first time, a musculoskeletal robotics workshop was organised at Semmelweis University. On 19 December, participants were introduced to the latest technology for knee replacement surgery, organised by the Department of Orthopaedics and the Institute of Pathology and Experimental Cancer Research.

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