During the first year of Pannonia Scholarship Program, the University of Debrecen registered the highest number of mobility participants nationwide, with a total of 950 students and staff members receiving scholarships to support their study trips abroad. This new scholarship program continues to offer a broad range of opportunities for members of the academic community at the University of Debrecen in the 2025/2026 academic year and, thanks to increased institutional support, the number of future participants is expected to grow further.
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The most recent graduates from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Debrecen were declared doctors on Friday. There were as many as 147 medical doctors of Hungarian and foreign nationality receiving their diplomas at the ceremony.
A project launched by the University of Debrecen exploring the history of the Hungarian diaspora in Canada has been enriched with special documents, including personal papers related to the founding of Hungarian United Church of Montreal in 1926. The personal papers of Mihály Fehér, a former student of Debrecen’s Reformed College and the Royal Hungarian István Tisza University of Debrecen, were returned to Hungary thanks to his family's donation.
Russian Cultural and Language Center of the Faculty of Humanities is launching a new language course primarily for foreign students enrolled at the University of Debrecen. Besides students of our university, high school students and other residents of Debrecen can also take advantage of this opportunity to learn Russian at one of three levels (beginner, intermediate, and advanced).
A delegation from Uzbekistan arrived at the University of Debrecen (UD) for language assessment and evaluation training. Between August 18 and 29, at Türk Corner, English teachers will learn about the examination method developed by the institution's lecturers, which foreign teachers will now be able to see for the first time.
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 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.
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.
In keeping with tradition, Jürgen Sarnowsky, the newly inaugurated honorary doctor of the University of Debrecen (UD), presented his scholarly work and his most recent research findings in the form of a lecture. The professor of history at the University of Hamburg was awarded the title of Doctor honoris causa during a ceremony held in the venue called Aula of the Main Building on Friday.