The Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management at the University of Debrecen has recently signed an agreement with the international training organization Pronix Learning on cooperation in education, support for student mobility, the arrangement of joint mutual internships, and a partnership to apply for international grants. In the framework of this collaboration, the first thirty students from India have already arrived at the Faculty of Agriculture in order to participate in a two-week, practice-oriented international training program.
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An associate professor from the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management of the University of Debrecen (UD MÉK) has become the first Hungarian researcher to visit Bouvet Island, which is part of the Norwegian Antarctic Territory. As a member of an international scientific expedition, László Radócz spent two weeks on the glacier-covered island that has seen less than 200 visitors so far, fewer than outer space has.
After spending almost two hundred and three days in space and orbiting the Earth more than thirty-two hundred times, samples from Hungary’s first space plant experiment, called VITAPRIC program, have returned from the International Space Station (ISS) to Debrecen. The researchers of the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management at the University of Debrecen received the experimental materials for their current scientific project from astronaut Tibor Kapu on Monday at UD’s Biodrome, home to the space plant experiment program named HUNOR and the “birthplace” of our university’s space peppers. For the experts in Debrecen, this marked the beginning of a new phase in their research activities.
A delegation of agricultural experts from the University of Debrecen has recently paid a series of professional visits to partners in the United States with the aim of strengthening international educational and research collaborations and further developing our already existing partnerships. Their discussions covered the fields of agricultural innovation, animal health, biotechnology and engineering research.
Between September 10th and 15th 2024, Michael Kovach, President of the Pennsylvanian Farmers Union, will be a guest of the University of Debrecen.