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The first Hungarian film-tourism smartphone application has been created with the contribution of the eLearning Department of MTA SZTAKI. The application provides the most complete guide of one of the most popular film destination capitals, Budapest.

József Attila, a 20. századi magyar- és világirodalom kimagasló alakja Budapest IX. kerületében született 1905 áprilisában. 14 éves koráig Ferencváros volt az otthona. 2015-ben intézetünk eLearning Osztálya és a Ferencvárosi Helytörténeti Gyűjtemény egy GPS alapú, interaktív okostelefonos sétát készített „József Attilával a Ferencvárosban” néven. A 2017-es ferencvárosi költészet napi ünnepre a séta fejlesztői a kerületi diákok számára különleges szabadtéri tájékozódási vetélkedőt készítettek elő és szerveztek meg.

The molecular diagnostics of cardiovascular diseases, which are highly endemic in Hungary, tumour and inflammatory diseases, and the development of essential manufacturing and logistics systems for industrial production will be the core focus areas of the two new domestic centres of excellence which were among the 10 winners in the “Teaming” research excellence programme, the most prestigious Widening actionl of the Horizon 2020 framework programme.

You are reading this article in English, but there are around 7,100 known living languages around the globe, according to Ethnologue. You wouldn’t know it from browsing the World Wide Web, though. We like to think of the web as a diverse place filled with the world’s knowledge, but only a fraction of active languages spoken around the globe are online at present. English and other dominant languages have a stranglehold on the internet, explained linguist and mathematician András Kornai in a recent scientific paper titled “Digital Language Death.” The future for a language that isn’t properly maintained and spoken online may not be rosy.