Debrecen4U
July 15, 2025
The University of Debrecen is also a member of the space industry network
An agreement has been signed between nine universities, two ministries, and the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Network to create a space industry network called the Hungarian Spacelab Network, at a signing ceremony held in Budapest on Monday.
In his welcoming speech, Minister of Culture and Innovation Balázs Hankó highlighted that a country’s research, educational, and scientific excellence is indicated by its presence in the space industry, space research and space sciences. “And we have made significant progress in recent years,” he emphasised.
He reminded us that when the HUNOR programme was launched, many people were skeptical, but we achieved our goal. “And this required significant help from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (KM), the Ministry of Culture and Innovation (KIM), our universities, and the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Network,” he pointed out.
Balázs Hankó said,”Our universities have started a significant cooperation in the UniSpace programme, which includes not only space pharmacy and space medicine but also the food industry and engineering disciplines.”
The minister described the Spacelab network as an excellent research cooperation, which carries forward and rolls forward all the results that were prepared, among others, by the experiments of our astronaut Tibor Kapu.
Ministerial Commissioner Orsolya Ferencz, responsible for space research, highlighted, ”The HUNOR programme was a real team effort; their results were highlighted on a global level, and it also became a historic mission that united the nation. She added, “In an explosively developing industry, we are writing the history of the 21st century in space. Agreement reached on the establishment of a space industry network.”
The Ministerial Commissioner said, “We need to have specialists and researchers who can be kept at home with research tasks, as well as be able to invite Hungarian and even foreign specialists from other countries.”
She called everything that was opened by HUNOR a huge opportunity, including the fact that the scientific laboratory network can begin to form.
Rector of Óbuda University, Levente Kovács, said, ”The Hungarian Spacelab Network brings together those universities that have shown significant energy and research affinity in the HUNOR programme in order to show their possibilities to the world.”
The University of Miskolc, Eötvös Loránd University, University of Pécs, Óbuda University, Széchenyi University, Semmelweis University, University of Szeged, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and the University of Debrecen are participating in the cooperation.
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