Two UD students from the Faculty of Engineering did exceptionally well at the WorldSkills international competition held in China. As representatives of Hungary in the industrial robotics category at this world championship of skills, Dániel Vígh and Károly Árpád Kis became the second-best team from Europe.
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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.
Artificial intelligence-based solutions that are either fully functional or have progressed to advanced stages of development were presented by students from the University of Debrecen at the DEIK.AI Challenge 2026 demo competition hosted by the Faculty of Informatics. The objective of the event was to provide professional support for promising projects, explore future development paths and prompt progress in the pertaining areas of research, commercialization and internationalization.
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.
A White Coat Ceremony was held for the first time at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Debrecen on Saturday. At the end of the ceremony, more than three hundred third-year medical students donned the new white coats that symbolize the transition to preclinical and clinical studies. They also took a symbolic oath, pledging to pursue their studies with dedication and to apply the knowledge gained for the benefit of patients responsibly with empathy and humility.
It was groups of students and young researchers, representing the professionals and decision-makers of the future, who took center stage at an international event organized by the Interreg VI-A Romania-Hungary Programme and hosted by the Institute of Chemistry at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Debrecen on September 30. This recent event aimed to showcase successful Interreg ROHU projects implemented or completed in the Romanian-Hungarian border region and to encourage young people to recognize and identify regional challenges and to formulate new ideas for appropriate developments.
Crowds were encouraged to get active by joining the #BeActive Your Way European Week of Sport again this year hosted by the Institute Sports Science Coordination of the University of Debrecen. Anyone keen to exercise could go for 3x3 basketball, padel, tennis, 5-a-side soccer, aerobics or pickleball.
At the University of Debrecen, more than a hundred and twenty newly graduated Hungarian and international students of the Faculty of Medicine took their Hippocratic oath and received their medical degrees and diplomas on Saturday. During the course of the ceremony, the freshly inaugurated physicians were also addressed by a former student of the faculty, medical futurist Bertalan Meskó, who drew their attention to how the new generation of physicians can efficiently use the opportunities offered by artificial intelligence in healing.
Several presentations were given on topics in pharmacology, pharmaceutical technology, pharmaceutical chemistry, and medical microbiology at the symposium of the Pharmacology and Microbiology Section of the Doctoral School of Medicine at the University of Debrecen. At the event held on Friday at the Faculty of Pharmacy, doctoral students reported on their scientific work and the results of their research to date.
Innovative and multidisciplinary applications of artificial intelligence took center stage at the DEIK.AI Challenge 2026 student competition, organized by the Faculty of Informatics at the University of Debrecen with support from the Innovation Ecosystem Center. The finals of the first stage of this multi-stage competition—the AI Idea Competition—were held at the Faculty of Informatics.