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.

It was launched by MTA in 2003 in Budapest.

Minister: Eminent representatives of intl scientific world meet in Budapest

Eminent Hungarian and international scientists are gathering to discuss cooperation in science, politics and society at the World Science Forum (WSF) hosted in Budapest from Nov 20 to 23, the minister for culture and innovation noted at a press conference.

"This is a special week in Budapest since outstanding researchers in the world meet here..." Balazs Hanko said, noting that top Hungarian scientists were also participating.

He said research and innovation played a key role part in boosting European competitiveness, noting the recent adoption of the competitiveness declaration under the Hungarian EU presidency.

"We Hungarians are outstanding in research and innovation," he said, noting the award of the Nobel prize to two Hungarian scientists last year.

This year WSF will focus on the connection between politics and science, Hanko said, referring to "excellent" cooperation between the two in Hungary.

"It is good to be a Hungarian researcher as we are in the top tier in the world," the minister said, adding the government was committed to creating further opportunities for researchers.

Tamas Freund, the head of the main organiser Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), noted that WSF was launched in Hungary and first held in 2003.

The event is organised by UNESCO, the International Science Council (ISC), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), the European Academies' Science Advisory Council (EASAC), the Global Young Academy (GYA) and the MTA.

He said that more than 1,100 people from 122 countries have registered to attend the event.

Addressing the Forum, President Tamas Sulyok said that "if there is trust and earnest dialogue between science and decision-makers, what will be common is not only the responsibility but the success achieved together."
Sulyok said it was "an extremely complex task" to take the necessary and "proportionate" decisions in response to challenges faced by humankind. He said this was possible only through dedicated work, dialogue and banding together. He referred to Hungarian Nobel laureates Katalin Kariko and Ferenc Krausz, who worked in partnership with their international colleagues at the forefront of international scientific research.

"Humankind in the 21st century faces new and unprecedented challenges. Researchers around the world are dealing with such major issues as climate change, the fight against new epidemics, the demographic decline of welfare states, the population explosion in Africa, the future of the Sahel region, the water crisis, migration, the directions of technological development, the issue of sustainable development and the future of artificial intelligence," the president said.

The quality of connections maintained between politicians in power and the representatives of the scientific sphere, including researchers, was of fundamental value, he added.

Source: 
MTI - The Hungarian News Agency, founded in 1881.

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