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Together with its partners, Innovációs Ökoszisztéma Központ [Innovation Ecosystem Centre], of the University of Debrecen is to issue a call for participants in two student idea competitions during the month of May. The central topics of these competitions will be Campus Fesztivál and the innovative use of artificial intelligence.

The representatives of twelve different countries, one acting company and the fourth premiere: these are the buzzwords that explain why all the tickets were sold out in one day for oDEon's latest English-language production, staged by the international students of the University of Debrecen “as a bomb.”

Students of the University of Debrecen can also travel now to Southern Utah University in the USA within the framework of what is called Pannónia Ösztöndíjprogram [Pannonia Scholarship Programme]. The agreement on student mobility opportunities was reached as part of the expansion of the partnership between UD and the US university signed a year ago, and students of the Faculty of Humanities can apply first to participate in it.

On the occasion of the Day of Hungarian Poetry, foreign and Hungarian students wrote a few lines of their favourite poems on the glass walls of the two libraries of the University of Debrecen. It was the first time that students shared their literary thoughts on the glass walls of the Böszörményi Street Campus Library in addition to the Life and Natural Sciences Library.

This year, Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions organized its national German language competition for secondary school students for the sixth time. One of the venues for the finals was the Institute of German Studies of the Faculty of Humanities (FH) of the University of Debrecen (UD).

A student from the Kossuth Lajos Secondary and Primary School of the University of Debrecen won the Hungarian final of Brain Bee, the prestigious international neuroscience competition for secondary school students. Áron Pankucsi-Versényi will represent Hungary in the world final of the contest in the autumn.

Extreme sports athlete Gábor Rakonczay talked about his unique journey on the stage of the oDEon theater on Thursday in a presentation dubbed “Seventy-five days and 5123 kilometers across the Atlantic Ocean from the Canary Islands to Antigua and Barbuda.” In the theater of the University of Debrecen, the two-time Guinness World Record holder revealed details about his mental and physical preparation for what he calls the critical moments and why he felt that his journey was completely “round” despite all the trials and tribulations.

In the framework of a full-day program, any interested party could learn about Poland, Polish history, culture, folklore and gastronomy, as well as study, scholarship and job opportunities in Poland on Lengyel Nap [Polish Day], hosted by the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Debrecen (UD) in cooperation with Budapest-based Instytut Polski [Polish Institute] and the Polish Tourism Organization office in our capital. The event, which was held on April 2 was connected to the Day of Polish-Hungarian Friendship (March 23).

The Confucius Institute of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Debrecen arranged a commemorative ceremony on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of its foundation. The special event was attended by the instructors and the heads of the institute and of the faculty as well as the representatives of the management of Tianjin Foreign Studies University and the Education Counsellor of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Budapest.

The students of Faculty of Business and Economics, majoring in Tourism and Catering Management, were the first “swallows” from the University of Debrecen to take part in a short-term group study trip of the Pannonia Scholarship Program (Pannónia Ösztöndíjprogram) in the framework of their course on international tourism relations. During their three-day trip, these students visited Vienna’s City Hall, Europa Experience (the European Parliament's education and experience center in Vienna), and the interactive museum called House of Music.