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.
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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.
Thanks to research conducted at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Debrecen, we are a few steps closer to overcoming ALS, a hitherto and currently incurable neurological disease. The researchers working on exploring and curing this disease will be awarded a publication prize called Gróf Tisza István Debreceni Egyetemért Alapítvány és a Debreceni Egyetem Publikációs Díja [Publication Prize of Count István Tisza Foundation for the University of Debrecen and the University of Debrecen].
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.
The Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Debrecen has hosted the first meeting of CubeSat developers. At the event, students from four institutions of higher education had the opportunity to learn about each other's ideas and the funding opportunities provided by the European Space Agency to help even more universities to launch their own satellites into space for scientific purposes in the future.
The industrial robotics team of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Debrecen won first place at the FANUC Olympics national selection in Törökbálint. The winner team is to represent Hungary in China at the WorldSkills Championship, in the final of the WorldSkills competition, in the Industrial Robotics category.
Genetic and genome biology research was the focus of the Central European Genome Stability Meeting, an international conference organized by the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Debrecen. The English-language event, held at the Learning Center, featured 32 experts giving presentations in 7 sessions and seeking collaboration opportunities.
The University of Debrecen was named University of the Year in the student-friendly category at the first-ever awards gala, where Chancellor Zoltán Bács received a special ministerial prize for his professional work. At the ceremony, the Ministry of Culture and Innovation honored Hungarian universities in as many as eight categories.
The Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Debrecen (DE GYTK) has been active in researching therapeutic options and compounds that could later be used to develop a new generation of drugs to treat certain cancer and immunological diseases, diabetes or even Alzheimer's. The most recent world-leading findings and results of this research team have been published in one of the most prestigious scientific journals.
A record number of students attended 4th International Academic Conference at the University of Debrecen. Organized by International Student Union (ISU), the event was attended by over 400 students, who listened to presentations on academic work in the faculties, TDK opportunities and the institution's talent management programs.