Just as Pompeius the Great's ships carrying grain had to sail from Sicily to Rome even when the sea was stormy, is the whole world with cooperation. As the old saying goes, "navigare necesse est (it is necessary to sail)  – and  despite all kinds of wild winds, both small and large, we must try to cooperate. Although this famous saying ends with . . ."vivere non est necesse" (it is not necessary to live), just like ancient sailors, today's researchers and research institutes also want to live. 

At our institute, the celebration of Hungarian science is primarily manifested in the fact that on one day in November each year, we welcome enthusiastic and curious students from five secondary schools, whom we receive not only with a lovingly and carefully prepared program, but also with a lavishly laid table. And as the reports show, quite a few of them consider the latter worthy of special thanks.

An extraordinary report on an extraordinary observation! How do the place cells of the hippocampus work? The Nusser group's discovery was published in the journal eLife and the first author Máté Sümegi reports on it. 

Academician Zoltán Nusser, deputy director of our institute, after winning two ERC Advanced Grants (2011, 2017), together with Attila Losonczy (University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center) and Ivo Spiegel (Weizmann Institute), has won this year's Synergy Grant, the most competitive and prestigious grant offered by the ERC.