A Mechanical Engineering Exhibition and Job Fair was held on Thursday at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Debrecen as a part of the series called Mechanical Engineering Professional Days, where more than 1,500 young people could learn about opportunities offered by corporate partners. The same series also comprises a two-day ISCAME conference, where Hungarian and foreign experts in the field of mechanical engineering present their recent research findings.
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The University of Debrecen is planning to establish cooperation with universities and Hungarian teachers' associations in neighbouring countries for sharing best practices and implementing joint development programs in the future. At the 28th National Conference for Public Education and Vocational Training Experts, which was held in Eger, members of UD’s leadership discussed how our institution’s expertise and competences in training, research and professional fields could be harmonized with the needs of Hungarian professional organizations and institutions of higher education across Hungary’s borders.
Experts from four universities in Hungary and one from Scotland have held a roundtable discussion on issues in legal theory at the Faculty of Law of the University of Debrecen. The primary query raised and sorted out was if it is possible to engage in legal theory without a commitment to specific values. This event also served as an opportunity to pay tribute to and congratulate Professor József Szabadfalvi on the occasion of his 65th birthday.
Plant protection, the intensive geographical spread of new pests, and technological innovations were all among the targeted topics on the agenda of the 31st Trans-Tisza Plant Protection Forum. There were more than fifty talks delivered during the two-day event, hosted by the Institute of Plant Protection at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management (MÉK) of the University of Debrecen, in addition to the presentation of the Antal Gulyás Memorial Medal for Plant Protection.
On Thursday, an Orientation Day was held at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management of the University of Debrecen. The program was primarily designed to provide assistance to new students enrolled in English-language degree programs with settling in and managing their academic and administrative tasks. Furthermore, participants could try the soup called gulyásleves, make gingerbread, learn straw weaving and even furniture painting.
There were three representatives from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Debrecen attending the jubilee conference of the Power Electronics and Motion Control Council, which was held in the capital of Estonia. The Tallinn event, hosted by the oldest and most prestigious international association in Europe dedicated to power electronics and motion control, attracted 230 participants from 40 different countries.
Internationally renowned researchers and industrial experts gave talks on the potential direction of technological progress and what sort of developments may transform our daily lives in the near future at the 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Machines and Intelligent Robotics Applications (AMIRA), which began on Tuesday at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Debrecen. Several hundreds of attendees had the opportunity to listen to a total of twenty presentations.
The limitations of artificial intelligence, a sustainable future, and new dimensions of human-animal relationships were among the topics discussed at the Faculty of Education for Children and Special Educational Needs at the University of Debrecen on October 6 and 7. Celebrating its fifth anniversary, the International Anthrozoology Conference hosted 71 speakers from Hungary and abroad this year, who shared their latest research findings across 14 different sessions covering almost every branch of the social and natural sciences.
This year, the University of Debrecen hosted the annual meeting of specialists in Dutch studies from Hungary. The conference, which was held on Friday, October 2, at the headquarters of the Debrecen Academic Committee, focused primarily on the teaching of the Dutch language in secondary and higher education.
An international conference of historians titled “Towns in Transition in a Changing World — Central European Towns in the Early Modern Period” was held on September 17–18 by the Institute of History at the Faculty of Humanities (BTK) and the Déri Museum. At the academic conference—which drew participants from six countries—Professor Roman Czaja, an honorary doctorate recipient of the university, as well as several other faculty members from the University of Debrecen, delivered presentations.