Hungary, as a testament to its commitment to NATO, is a founding member of both the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) and the Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA), which have chosen Budapest as the location of their meetings, the ministry cited Imre Porkoláb, ministerial commissioner for defence innovation, as saying.

Porkoláb, who is also deputy chair of DIANA, said the defence ministry is organising the NATO Innovation Week “on the sidelines” of the DIANA and NIF meetings together with the Defence Innovation Research Institute (VIKI), with Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky as the event’s chief patron.

NIF and DIANA are both aimed at adapting advanced technologies developed in the civilian sector by partnering with small and medium-sized businesses, the commissioner said.

As part of the Innovation Week, Hungary will present its innovation ecosystem to the other member states, the ministry said.

MTI Photo of Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky by Anikó Kovács