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From the food- and manufacturing industry to tackling climate crisis and energy resources, chemistry is essential in almost every part of our daily lives. Still, it is often considered a closed world only available to scientists. Dr. Gábor Lente, the head of the Institute of Chemistry at the University of Pécs, and the speaker of the Alumni Hungary Webinar series in September believes that chemistry should be brought closer to the non-professional audience too. We interviewed him about his experience as a chemist and about his current research.

On 23 September at 16:00 p.m. the Pak-Hungary Alumni Network (PHAN) is organizing an alumni meet-up in Islamabad at the office of the Foundation of Arts and Culture (FACE).

A new online platform has been launched with over 5.000 members selected from the Semmelweis Alumni Network. The aim is to bring the community closer and to share programs, career opportunities and social awareness. After the test launch, the entire Semmelweis alumni community, tens of thousands of people from over 70 countries around the world, will be able to use the platform.

Digital networking and continuous monitoring of the news have become an essential part of today's connectivity. Being a freshly graduated student or experienced alumni is a different stage of our life and there are many treasures in our huge alumni community. Damilia Arzybekova, our alumni volunteer, created the BudapestMate social media pages to encourage young people with exciting alumni life after studies and show carrier-ways with various professional backgrounds.

There were many alumni meetings around the world this year where some of our alumni volunteers participated. Here you can read about the collection from Kenya, Azerbaijan, Nigeria, Laos and Kyrgyzistan!
 

When the SZE-SAT team of Széchenyi István University was founded, it set itself the goal of putting a satellite of its own design into the sky. The students have reached an important stage in this process, as they have completed and tested the module that will soon be able to broadcast the name of the institution and Győr to the countries of the world, announcing that Széchenyi István University has entered space. In December, the satellite of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) will carry the Győr-developed communication panel into the cosmos.

At the latest event of Semmelweis University’s Science and Business Salon, four winning teams from the Hungarian Startup University (HSUP) talent management programme presented their most innovative ideas from Semmelweis, who will develop these concepts further with the help of their mentors. The winning projects include a smart medicine dispenser, an educational card game, an educational platform for university students and a dance training video for wheelchair users.

Are you a graduate student of 2022? First, congratulation on graduating from your Hungarian host university. This is the time to celebrate your achievements!

This time again we introduce you to one of our volunteers of our international team with 30 people from 215 countries speaking 23 different languages. In this chapter of our volunteer series, you can read Dr. Lillian Achola Oluoch’s story from Kenya! She studied in Hungary and did her doctoral degree between 2016-2021 at the University of Szeged and now she is a Lecturer in the Department of Statistics and Computational Mathematics, at The Technical University of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.

Prof. Sándor Imre, who is the R&D director of the Quantum Informatics National Lab of Hungary, was our presenter for the June edition of our Alumni Hungary Webinar Series. He also gave us an interview in which he talked about the state of quantum computing now, future prospects and his own research.