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LOVE THE WATER? JOIN THE LAKE TISZA CROSSING
08/04/21
The August 7th event involves either crossing Lake Tisza by swimming (3.5 km) or by human-powered boat (8 km) – or both. The aim of the Tisza Lake crossing is to popularize water sports and the Lake Tisza area, and the all-day event is a community sporting event. As part of UM’s approach to exercise, sport, and a healthy lifestyle, supporting recreational sports as well as competitive sports, UM students were offered lower event participation fees this year.
PHOTOS & VIDEOS OF GRADUATION CEREMONIES AVAILABLE
08/04/21
You can see (and download) photographs and videos from the three graduation ceremonies held in June.
CineFest - Call for Short film
08/02/21
Knowledge, community, a beautiful and green campus. Your best choice. This is the University of Miskolc!
CREATE A SHORT FILM ABOUT UM AND WIN UP TO HUF 500,000!
08/02/21
As part of the CineFest International Film Festival, a contest also sponsored by UM has been announced for short “image” videos of the University of Miskolc.
ANTICIPATING THE ANNOUNCEMENT – WHO GOT INTO UNIVERSITY?
07/27/21
Passing scores were announced for Hungarian university programmes on 22 June. Hopeful students gathered at Szinva Terrace in the city centre to await the announcement, entertained before and after by live bands. Many students rejoiced, while others were disappointed at not getting into their first-choice universities.
ONLINE SYMPOSIUM ON POLYURETHANE INNOVATION
07/26/21
The Symposium on Polyurethane Innovation 2021 (SPI 2021), to be held on 23-24 August, will feature online presentations in English about the latest developments in polyurethane raw materials, equipment, manufacturing technologies and other related innovations.
Welcome to the University of Miskolc!
07/23/21
Congratulations on your successful entrance exam and welcome to the country’s most amazing, truly unique campus, where you shall spend perhaps the most beautiful and adventurous years of your life.
Welcome to the University of Miskolc!
07/23/21
Congratulations on your successful entrance exam and welcome to the country’s most amazing, truly unique campus, where you shall spend perhaps the most beautiful and adventurous years of your life.
PROGRAMME FOR TALENTED YOUNG PEOPLE: UM and MCC
07/22/21
The Mathia Corvinus Collegium (MCC), an organisation that supports talented young people of various ages, will be available to Miskolc students from September.
CONFERENCE OF CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS AT UM
07/19/21
The event focused on opportunities for civic programmes and funding in the 2021–2027 period. It was sponsored by the Esély és Részvétel Közhasznú Egyesület (“Oppportunity and Participation Association"), the University of Miskolc and the Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Government. Vince Szalay-Bobrovniczky, Deputy State Secretary for Civil and Social Affairs of the Prime Minister's Office, spoke about the current situation and future funding sources in Hungary. The new operative programme TOP Plusz will soon be finalised; the county may receive 137 million forints and Miskolc 33 million forints for regional and urban development.
COORDINATING UM AND VOCATIONAL COURSES
07/15/21
Future graduates of two five-year vocational programmes will have credits accepted in university studies, according to an agreement between UM and the Miskolc Center of Vocational Training signed on 14 July.
UM AND UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA SIGN AGREEMENT
07/13/21
The two universities agreed on 12 July to assist each other in a strategic cooperation that will include teaching and training, research and development, and innovation, among others. Together they plan to provide new postgraduate programmes aimed at the changing labour market, to jointly supervise PhD students and to apply as a team for grants, especially in the areas of renewable energy, water management, circular economy, waste management, climate protection, hydrogen technologies, logistics and material sciences.
HUNDREDS RECEIVE DIPLOMAS IN PERSON
07/12/21
The University of Miskolc held its graduation ceremonies on 8-9 July, with over four hundred new graduates receiving their diplomas in person. Due to the pandemic, only students were allowed to attend the ceremony; others could watch live on UM’s YouTube channel.
TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION TO SAY FAREWELL
07/08/21
Graduating students in uniform, singing ancient student songs and carrying torches paraded through the streets of downtown Miskolc on 7 July. In this traditional event, called the “Salamander”, new graduates bid farewell to their university lives and pass the banner to the current students.
How to Implement Socio-Civic [SOC] Internships in Technical Universities’
07/06/21
We are glad to invite you to the Erasmus+ IN4SOC final dissemination event ‘How to Implement Socio-Civic [SOC] Internships in Technical Universities’. The event will take place online on Friday, July 9, 2021, 11:30 – 13:15 CET time.
UNIVERSITY WATER POLO TOURNAMENT
07/05/21
The Hungarian national university water polo championship was held in Miskolc on 3-4 July; the venue was chosen because UM will host the 2023 European Universities Water Polo Championship.
THREE-WAY COOPERATION: UM, HELL ENERGY & SZIKSZÓ
07/01/21
The University of Miskolc, major energy drink manufacturer HELL ENERGY, and the town of Szikszó have signed an agreement to join their forces to help each other succeed.
WORKSHOP OF EXCELLENCE FOR R&D IN NANOMATERIALS
07/01/21
A grant-supported project has produced research of international interest in the brazing of various nanomaterials with different melting points at a temperature lower than conventional procedures. The research group has been dealing with the thermodynamic investigation of nanomaterials, developing multi-layers of just a few nanometres in thickness, brazing of nanocomposites and nanostructured steels, and structural investigation of the materials created.
COOPERATION WITH CINEFEST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
06/30/21
The festival, to be held on 10–18 September, is one of the major cultural events of Miskolc.
SCHOLARSHIPS GIVEN FOR OUTSTANDING MARKS
06/29/21
Around 100 UM students in dual training courses received scholarships totalling 22 million forint supported by the Dual Drive University grant.