THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCED SCIENCE FROM A NEW ANGLE

On Researchers' Night, UM's Knowledge Warehouse was opened. A team of lecturers, PhD students, students and volunteers worked to give visitors a first-hand experience of the exciting and spectacular world of science and research. The event, with more than 100 activities, attracted thousands of visitors to campus on the last day of September.

This was the 16th time that UM organised Researchers' Night, a series of events that showcase the world of science and research in a way that is accessible to the general public.

The popular event, which attracted 4,000–5,000 visitors, not only showed prospective students what the faculties and institutes have to offer in terms of knowledge in the various fields of science. Visitors of all ages were able to see how the results of university research contribute to everyday life, whether in the fields of renewable energies, environmental and water conservation, recycling and circular economy, materials technology, artificial intelligence and the virtual world, automation or robotisation.

Visitors were only attracted by science experiments, geology, the digital world or e-vehicles: social sciences, humanities and health sciences were also represented. They organised audition tests, brainwave measurements, X-ray image analysis, muscle-strengthening and balance tests, crime scene investigation, and rehearsals based on folk customs, and even object-building demonstrations of human representations of the Inukshuk, the Inuit people of the Arctic.

All eight faculties along with research institutes, the library and the Confucius Institute participated in the Researchers' Night programme. The event closed with a "Best of Geszti" concert by Péter Geszti on the eve of World Music Day.