The University of Szeged hosted the annual summit of EUGLOH, an alliance of nine European universities, between June 11 and 14, 2024. The event was attended by Nobel Prize-winning researchers, including SZTE professor Katalin Karikó, who gave a presentation and held book signings on June 13.
The sustainability ranking called THE Impact Rankings is prepared every year by Times Higher Education in line with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). In the latest ranking published on June 12, 2024, the University of Szeged ranked 43rd in the "Peace, justice and strong institutions" thematic list. In addition, SZTE made great progress in several other subcategories, but it also improved in the overall ranking: it moved up to the 301-400th place, thus taking shared first place in Hungary.
In Hungary, the innovation-oriented sectors require more and more mathematically qualified professionals, but, no matter how much money there is for innovation, if the supply of specialists does not improve. Therefore, it is time to give mathematics a new image, for which a good basis is the fact that in developed countries it is no longer fashionable to be "stupid at math" since 90 percent of mathematicians land well-paying jobs.
The University of Szeged has been ranked 570th by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) in their latest World University Rankings for the Academic Year 2024-25. The institution has improved its position by more than 30 places compared to last year. The Ranking includes eleven Hungarian universities with very tight results among the front runners.
Katalin Karikó, research professor at the University of Szeged, has been appointed as a university professor. The decision was published in the latest issue of the Hungarian Official Journal Publisher (Magyar Közlöny).
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, i.e. the two Nobel Prize-winning scientists who pioneered the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19, and the Prime Minister of Barbados received the “Award for Global Health" founded by the Director-General of the WHO. The award ceremony was held in Geneva on the occasion of a joint event of the World Health Organization and the International Olympic Committee on May 27, 2024. The international award will be placed at the Karikó collection of the University of Szeged.
In the first half of 2024, Belgium holds the presidency of the European Union, from which Hungary takes over the baton for the year's second half. One of the important events of the Belgian EU Presidency was the "Europe United Against Old and New Pandemics" conference held in Antwerp on May 14-15, to evaluate the EU's pandemic preparedness and determine future actions.
The new test station producing e-fuel is an important milestone in three objectives of the University of Szeged. It produces environmentally sustainable green energy; in cooperation with economic partners, it takes SZTE laboratory research to the threshold of industrial use; and its creation was helped by the forward-looking interdisciplinary approach of the university.
The possible areas of use of mRNA technology are wide-ranging: within a few years, it may even provide a therapeutic strategy that can be used in the case of cancer, cardiovascular, or autoimmune diseases. Several mRNA-based research projects are taking place at the University of Szeged with the support of Katalin Karikó, the first female Hungarian Nobel laureate. Among these, we present the research work carried out in the Laboratory of Neural Regeneration of SZTE SZAOK Department of Anatomy, Histology, and Embryology. The work of the researchers here can form the basis for treating spinal cord injury with mRNA therapy.
The University of Szeged, which has been Hungary's best university in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings for years, was featured prominently in the recently published subjects list of the British ranking maker. Based on the results published on April 10, 2024, SZTE tied for first place in the field of pharmacy and pharmacology in Hungary. In addition, it was added to the list in some fields of science for the first time, while it maintains a stable position in several categories, both domestically and globally.
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Studying in Szeged, Hungary's third-largest city, is an increasingly popular choice for international students. Szeged, located at the triple border of Hungary, Romania, and Serbia, is, without a doubt, one of the most attractive university cities in Hungary.
