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Katalin Karikó received Semmelweis Budapest Award

The rector of Semmelweis University, Béla Merkely presented the award to the Széchenyi Prize-winning biologist, who lives in the United States, on 15 December. In his speech, Béla Merkely emphasized that the researcher, whose discovery paved the way for the development of mRNA-based vaccines, „could save the lives of millions of people. It is also thanks to her that we can now live in a safer world, because we have a weapon against the Covid-19 virus causing the pandemic”.

Katalin Karikó receives the Semmelweis Budapest Award from Rector Béla Merkely (Photo: MTI/Zoltán Balogh)

According to the MTI report, Béla Merkely also stressed that the technology developed by Katalin Karikó and her colleagues can be used effectively to fight not only viruses but also a range of other diseases, such as oncology and heart disease. This could „open up unprecedented horizons for the future of medicine”.

The SE’s most prestigious international award

Semmelweis University (SE) established the Semmelweis Budapest Award in 2009. The SE’s most prestigious international scientific award is given to scientists who have achieved internationally recognized results, who are at the forefront of biomedical research, and whose achievements are worthy of the university’s namesake and who make a significant contribution to the discovery of new ways of understanding living science for the benefit of humanity.

Last year’s recipient of the award was Péter Gloviczki, internationally renowned vascular surgeon who completed his studies at Semmelweis University and then learned the basics of vascular surgery at the Városmajor Clinic. He arrived at the world-renowned Mayo Clinic in the US as a fellow in 1981, where he worked as a chair of the Division of Vascular Surgery between 2000 and 2010.

We recently reported that the European Patent Office illustrated its report on women inventors with Katalin Karikó.  

Researchers of Széchenyi István University won an international award

At the end of September, the most important power electronics and motion control conference in the region, which dates back more than half a century, was held in Brasov, Romania. The Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference focuses on research topics of power electronics, controls systems, electrical drives, robotics and related topics.

The conference was established in the 1970s at the instigation of Hungarian experts to provide a common forum for experts in the field from Western and Eastern Europe. Since then, the programme has grown into a world conference under the auspices of the IEEE, the most prestigious professional organisation in electrical and electronics engineering. This year’s event attracted more than 200 participants from 30 countries around the world, with 150 papers and presentations, according to a press release of Széchenyi István University (SZE).

Three researchers and lecturers of SZE won the Best Paper Award at the conference:

  • Dr. Dénes Fodor, Head of the Department of Power Electronics and Electric Drives at Széchenyi István University
  • István Szalay, current PhD student
  • Dr. Krisztián Enisz, former PhD student

István Szalay, PhD student of Széchenyi István University and Dr. Dénes Fodor, Head of the Department of Power Electronics and Electric Drives of the institution with the award (Photo: Széchenyi István University/Márton Horváth)

The researchers of SZE have received the award for the presentation of comparison of square-wawe and sinusoidal signal injection in sensorless polarity detection for PMSMs. The authors of the award-winning paper believe that the uniqueness of their method makes it eligible for world patent protection.

Internationally recognised Hungarian researchers

As for international success of Hungarian researchers, we recently reported that Péter Nagy, research assistant professor at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), was the only Hungarian to win a grant in this year’s European Research Council’s excellence program for younger researchers. The researcher at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering of BME won a five-year grant of 1.2 million Euro for his project aiming at the high-accuracy, quantum chemistry based modelling of molecular processes.

We also reported that this year’s list of the world’s most cited researchers includes five Hungarian scientists.

Former Corvinus student, now heading Bátor Tábor, won an international leadership training award

The names of this year’s CEMS Alumni of the Year awards were announced in late October. CEMS (Global Alliance in Management Education) is an international cooperation of universities, business schools, companies and non-government organisations. One university is selected from each country, Hungary has been represented by Corvinus since 1996.

Three out of 17,000 CEMS alumni have received awards

Erna Kindli, managing director of Bátor Tábor, received the Mid-Career Alumni of the Year award. This award category is for CEMS alumni who have already had 6 to 15 years of professional experience. Two other categories were also awarded: the junior alumni award with 1 to 5 years of professional experience and the senior alumni award with more than 16 years of experience.

The three award-wining alumni were selected from among nearly 17 000 alumni who represent 111 nationalities and work in more than 75 countries. Nominations can be submitted by members of the CEMS community – i.e. students, alumni, and holders of academic jobs –, for one candidate in each category. They are selected based on the extent to which they have made contributions to promote the CEMS values, i.e. global citizenship, cultural diversity, professional responsibility, professional accountability, and impact on society as a whole – according to Corvinus press release.

From Google to Bátor Tábor

Erna Kindli has completed the CEMS leadership training program (CEMS MIM) as a student at the Management and Organization study program of Corvinus University. CEMS Master’s in International Management (MIM) programme is ranked 12th in this year’s QS Masters in Management Rankings among 176 programmes, thus it is now included in the top 7 per cent of training offering management programmes globally.

Since 2017, Erna Kindli has been working as the managing director of Bátor Tábor (Camp of Courage in Hungarian) which provides life-changing experiences to seriously ill children and their families, and also to those families who have suffered the loss of a child.

Previously, she had worked for the cyber security company Tresorit for three years – and during that period, she received the “Young Leader of the Year” award in Hungary in 2016 – and prior to that she had started building her career at Google in London, where she spent five and a half years.

Erna Kindli is the second former Corvinus student who received alumni award from CEMS (Photo: Corvinus)

She changed because she felt what she was doing was not useful enough

[kiemelt]“What is unique about Erna Kindli is that, despite her excellent professional achievements in the competitive sector, she changed her career, focusing on social utility”[/kiemelt]

– Corvinus press release says.

„I felt an urge that what I was doing was not useful enough” – Erna Kindli said in an interview on the Corvinus website, explaining why she left competitive sector and started to work in non-profit sector.

“I was also musing about going to Asia and work for an international non-profit organisation as a professional volunteer, and I was even considering teaching English at an orphanage in the Philippines. Then a conversation with Péter Küllői, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Bátor Tábor Foundation and one of Hungary’s greatest philanthropists, changed everything. It turned out that he had been looking for a manager for a long time, and he offered the position to me. At that time, all I knew about Bátor Tábor was that it was an ethical organisation and what they do was professional and positive. I felt honoured to be invited” – she explained in the interview.

Erna Kindli is the second former Corvinus student who won CEMS alumni award

In 2019, the CEMS Mid-Career Alumni Award went also to a former student of Corvinus: Kinga Jentetics had received a doctorate degree in marketing from the university, and became the co-founder and managing director of the e-book sales online platform Publishdrive, which was launched in 2014, and in 2017 she was on the USA’s Forbes 30 Under 30, a list of the 30 most successful people under the age of 30.

A Corvinus PhD student won an international award with a film about co-living

The half-hour short film titled Recharge Coliving Camp, which won the best videography award at the film festival of the Association for Consumer Research (ACR) 2022 conference in Denver, was shot in January this year in Vászoly, a village in Balaton Highlands, Hungary.

The film’s creator, Máté Bencze, PhD student at the Department of Marketing, Media and Design Communication of Corvinus, examined the phenomenon of co-working in his previous film, which was selected for the film festival of the ACR 2020 conference. Taking this subject a step further, his award-winning work now explores the issue of co-living.

Máté Bencze at the ACR conference in Denver where he won the best videography award (Photo: Budapest Corvinus Egyetem)

„At Portushome Coliving (in Vászoly), volunteers spent a week together, and they teleworked online during the day and participated in various programmes in the afternoon and at night. They made excursions in the wonderful snowy countryside, cooked meals together, defined goals for themselves for the year, and had discussions”, Máté Bencze told Corvinus website about his film.

According to the Corvinus PhD student,

[kiemelt]co-living responds to the phenomenon of loneliness by creating an opportunity for workers to travel somewhere and relax in a community by not having to take days off.[/kiemelt]

„In this film, I focused primarily on examining what programmes can facilitate bonds to be created between people, and whether a tribal identity can evolve during such a short period of time, and how this process is facilitated by a community manager”, he added.

In addition to Máté Bencze, several Hungarian students have recently achieved significant results in professional competitions. You can read about them here:

Three Hungarian bronze medals at the European Girls’ Olympiad in Informatics

BME’s rocket development team in the top 10 at a prestigious European competition

A Hungarian student won silver medal at world competition

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