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Elisabeth Angyalka Ilie-Zudor, Head of the Intelligent Information Management group, and Director’a Consultant for EU projects at HUN-REN SZTAKI, will give a presentation titled "Lump sum budget planning at the proposal writing stage and implementation experiences".
On 29 September 2023, the Institute participated in the event with ten programmes, which occupied several floors of two buildings. More than 300 visitors took part in the HUN-REN STUKI's demonstrations, which ranged from flying drones to an occasional hardware history exhibition, learning about industrial robots and trying out ageing clocks.
HUN-REN SZTAKI awaited its visitors with ten different programs, including a drone parade, an autonomous land vehicle, an interactive blockchain simulation, robots, aging clocks, baby monitoring, and a hardware history exhibition at the Researchers' Night on Friday 29 September 2023.
International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO): an international, scientific organisation covering the complete range of measurement, it has 41 country members from all over the world, additionally, it has many personal members, 32 leaders in person and over 50 participated online on the actual meeting, representing more than 40 countries.
There can hardly be a higher recognition of the hard work put into a Horizon Europe proposal than the 15/15 score on the anxiously awaited evaluation result letter. This is exactly the score we got for the one we submitted for the "Enhanced citizen preparedness in the event of a disaster or crisis-related emergency (HORIZON-CL3-2022-DRS-01-01)” call last November.
On Wednesday, 12 July 2023, a Chinese delegation of investors and government officials visited the National Laboratory for Autonomous Systems (ARNL) and the Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory (MILAB).
Co-organised by the Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory (MILAB) and the Autonomous Systems National Laboratory (ARNL) – both coordinated by SZTAKI – and Neumann Nonprofit Ltd., the international AI & AUT EXPO was held between 14-15 February 2023 at the Hungarian Railway Museum in Budapest.
The AI & AUT EXPO, co-organised by the national laboratories coordinated by SZTAKI and Neumann Nonprofit Public Benefit Ltd., attracted more than 480 visitors in two days.
On 29 November 2022, a high-level delegation from the University of Transport and Communications (UTC) of Vietnam visited SZTAKI. The delegation was led by Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Long, President of the aforementioned University.
A conference on the ’Safety and Security Related Applications of UAVs in the Home Affairs Sector" was held in the Marble Hall in the Ministry for Home Affairs.
Dr Miklós Maróth, President of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network extended the mandate of Dr László Monostori as SZTAKI’s director by further 5 years.
The research and development (R&D) projects, developments and results of SZTAKI were presented to the delegation by the Institute's researchers. The American guests were mainly interested in aeronautical and automation solutions, therefore the programme was set accordingly.
In the frame of the 4th ZalaZONE Innovation Day that was held on 30 September 2022 (4ZZID), ARNL researchers and developers held several live vehicle demonstrations for interested visitors and for the representatives of the Ministry of Technology and Industry (TIM) at the ZalaZONE automotive test track.
Dr. Myung-Joon KIM, President of the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) of South Korea, and his three high-ranking colleagues within ETRI visited Hungary on a scientific and research networking tour. The program of the tour was organised by the Ministry of Culture and Innovation.
The joint exhibition of the Fraunhofer Society and SZTAKI was opened at the Stuttgart Science Festival, with speeches by András Izsák, Consul General of Stuttgart, Thomas Bauernhansl, Director of Fraunhofer IPA, and László Monostori, Director of SZTAKI. The opening ceremony was also attended by Engelbert Westkämper, former Director of Fraunhofer IPA.
In the Innovation and Demo Space (IDS), some of SZTAKI’s most recent research and development results were presented and demonstrated. SZTAKI is part of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH).
The research advisor of the Systems and Control Lab of SZTAKI was awarded the medal for his "achievements in the field of control theory research and education".
The purpose of the visit in March was to learn about the activities of the Institute, with a particular focus on the national laboratories coordinated by the SZTAKI.
A delegation from the South Korean Ministry of Science and ICT arrived at the Institute on December 3, 2021, to attend presentations on the operations and objectives of SZTAKI and the programs and developments of the national laboratories led by SZTAKI.
Work on Hungary’s Artificial Intelligence Strategy is finished, announced László Palkovics, minister of innovation and technology on the 8th of September 2020.