The main objectives set by the new President of HUN-REN, Balázs Gulyás, are to strengthen scientific and innovation capacities and to increase the social, economic, and intellectual impact of research and innovation results. To achieve these goals, a new research strategy is needed, which requires knowledge of the current situation of HUN-REN's 49 research institutes and their performance in international comparison.
HUN-REN has invited researchers of world renown to undertake this major work, and the survey will be carried out in the first third of this year.
Older colleagues probably don't need an introduction, but few young people would have known him (even Google couldn't find a photo). He didn't win many awards or huge accolades, but everyone who knew him carries his memory in their hearts and minds. In winter and summer, in 1990, 2000 and 2010, he wore the same worn jacket and trousers, carrying the same notebook in his bag in which he wrote down his thoughts and experiments.
KOKI participated for the first time in the Educatio2024 exhibition, which was held for the twenty-fourth time and attracted more than 60 thousand visitors. Our institute was represented by Áron Orosz Ph.D. student.
There are many ways to celebrate, and Christmas is no exception. And in a scientific institute, no Christmas celebration is complete without a scientific lecture.
What else could we start with but to congratulate our young and successful colleague Susanne Prokop on her latest success, the Junior Prima Prize in Science, the most prestigious Hungarian award for researchers under 33 years of age!
The celebration of Hungarian science has a special place among November's festivities, which is as much for the whole country as other commemorations of our history.
A paper by Viktor Varga's group, co-firstauthored by Albert Barth and Márta Jelitai, published in Nature Communications, reports an unexpected discovery in one of the most studied regions of the brain, the hippocampus.
Some visits are an honor for the hosts. This was the case with Professor Thomas C. Südhof, who visited our institute on 19 September 2023 and gave a lecture for us.
We feel at home in the houses of Villa Park in Várgues and, more importantly, our conference speakers would be welcome at any international event of this kind. And not just us, our guests and members of our Advisory Board thought so too.
