Do you spend the 29th and 30th of September in Hungary and do you wanna explore some free programs? Researcher’s Night is ready to guide you through some interesting workshops, exhibitions, and classes on these days.

Are you ready to join an eye-opening program about humanities? If you are interested in the history and culture of the African continent’s southernmost country, join our interactive board game at the Researchers’ Night at ELTE. During the game, you are going to discover South Africa’s history in the 20th and 21st centuries and find out about the everyday workings of the apartheid system, which was based on racial segregation. 

How can we become the change we want to see in the world? How can we transform ourselves? How can faith groups and civil society contribute to a process of challenging materialism and orchestrated polarization and scapegoating? Why do researchers need to understand these processes? You can find the answers to these questions at The Galileo Project – Faith and Transformation interactive seminar at ELTE Social Science Faculty.

You can also try to control prosthtetic and robotic hands at Pázmány University. Here you can also understand better the principles and possibilities of surface electromyography and ultrasound measurements, and present our kinetic glove made in our Robotics Laboratory. Traveling to the future will become real at Researcher’s Night.

Explore Budapest on another level and register for the free programs now!

As every year, the Researchers' Night will take place across Europe and in our country. The event was first held in Hungary 17 years ago, with a reduced programme. Since then, it has become a tradition that on the last Friday in September (and on Saturday for the last few years), research institutes, universities, libraries, archives, museums and official laboratories open their doors to the public.

The event, organised under the European Union's Marie Skłodowska-Curie initiative, aims to bring scientific research and researchers closer to the public, promote excellent research projects across Europe, encourage young people to become interested in scientific careers and show the impact of researchers' work on everyday life.

Technological advances offer more and more jobs, but fewer and fewer people are interested in the background. The Researchers' Night, which will showcase all the links in the innovation chain, is a key showcase for the national development community, from the smallest to the largest. The national event promotes the discovery of the diverse potential of science, technology, engineering and maths and the understanding of the processes that affect our everyday lives through collaboration between educational institutions and companies that provide hands-on space.

In the European Year of Skills, we raise awareness of the role of young people in building the future and creating a more technically advanced, greener and digital world.The organisers will not only prepare and implement the Researchers' Night, but will also evaluate the event and maintain interest until next year's event with ongoing actions.

This year's programme is extremely rich, with over 160 institutions in 46 towns and cities across Hungary offering more than 2,000 programmes in 10 disciplines.

Thousands of people celebrated Europe Day 2022 on Sunday 7 May 2023 also in Budapest, at the Szabadság Square in the city centre. The Europe Day festival included free concerts, children's activities and a running race to mark 19 years since Hungary joined the European Union (2004).

The “19 years – 19 km” EU run celebrating Hungary’s 19 years of EU membership also starts from Szabadság Square. Then there were free family and children's activities, concerts, interactive games, children's yoga, puppet shows and EU informations. In addition, it was worth visiting the tents of various institutions and organisations. In addition to the EU communication institutions, a number of green, cultural, youth and refugee support organisations had special programmes with interesting games and quizzes with lots of useful information. Researchers' Night also had a special tent at the event and raised awareness of science and the project.  Those who played in at least seven tents could win valuable prizes at the Europe Point tent.

Girls' Day for young people about to choose their career on 27 April The Women in Science Association (NaTE) organised the Girls' Day on 27 April, the 12th edition of the event for young people interested in science, technology and IT. On this day, a number of large companies, universities and research institutes across the country opened their doors to young people to give them a taste of practical applications of engineering and science. The aim of the initiative is to give primary and secondary school students who are about to choose a career a taste of the jobs of the future. The event introduced young people to the diversity of STEM careers (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) and the opportunities for the future. Among other things, they showed how a software tester, a transport engineer or a researcher spends their working day. The event is important because, while technology and IT skills are becoming increasingly valued in the labour market, there are still significantly fewer women choosing these fields, which has a major impact on the labour shortages that have been experienced in the science and IT sector for years.

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