Hungary will showcase the products of corporate partnerships with universities and research institutes at the Science Expo in Budapest on November 21-23, while the city hosts the World Science Forum. At a press conference on Tuesday, Culture and Innovation Minister Balazs Hanko said 80 institutions would participate at the Science Expo. He added that the number of university admissions in STEM subjects was up by 44pc.
Hungarian knowledge and creativity are “outstanding”, he said, pointing to the two Hungarian Nobel Prize winners in 2023.
The Science Expo will take place with the cooperation of the Culture and Innovation Ministry, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the National Innovation Agency, the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Network, the National Academy of Science Education and the country’s biggest universities.
Further info and detailed program of World Science Expo available here
Budapest to host World Science Forum
Budapest will host the World Science Forum between Nov. 20 and 23 focusing on the interface of science and policy at a time of global transformations, organised by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA).
The biannual event organised for the 11th time is expected to draw some 500 ministerial-level delegates, leaders of scientific organisations, policy experts, scientists and researchers, to participate in 19 meetings and nearly 100 lectures, MTA said in a statement.
President Tamas Sulyok is the event’s patron, and main organiser MTA head Tamas Freund will be its host. UNESCO deputy director-generals Xing Qu and Lidia Brito will give speeches, as will Sir Peter Gluckman, President of the International Science Council (ISC) and Sudip Parikh, director of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Other speakers will include the representatives of African, American, Indian and Chinese science academies, political decision-makers and others, the statement said.
The event is organised by UNESCO, ISC, AAAS, InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC), the Global Young Academy (GYA) and MTA.
Source: XpatLoop
