The Faculty of Agriculture, Food Sciences and Environmental Management at the University of Debrecen is organizing a photo contest entitled "Agriculture through the eyes of a photographer."
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The Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management of the University of Debrecen has created the Centre for Regional Border Wildlife Monitoring to assess, monitor and preserve the values of wildlife along the Romanian-Hungarian border. Experts from UD and the University of Life Sciences “King Michael I” of Timișoara are working together in the project, which is implemented within the framework of the Interreg VI-A Romania-Hungary Programme.
A participant in the highly successful West Antarctic scientific expedition in 2020 was László Radócz, head of the MÉK department at the University of Debrecen.
A dual degree that is unique in Europe may be earned by the four Hungarian students who have been the first to win scholarships for a program run in cooperation between the University of Debrecen and South Dakota State University (SDSU) in the United States. These selected students from the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Science and Environmental Management, who will study at South Dakota State University for two semesters as part of their precision agricultural engineering training, will be leaving for the overseas institution on Wednesday.
A renowned expert has joined the staff responsible for the teaching and research activities of the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management at the University of Debrecen. Michael Gonda, a professor of the Department of Animal Science at South Dakota State University (SDSU), arrived at the institution on a Fulbright scholarship. During his four-month stay, he will be teaching applied animal husbandry and quantitative genetics at the faculty and will also be involved in beef cattle genetics research.
It is the first Hungarian space plant experiment, called Vitapric program, that the time capsules placed on Tuesday at the Böszörményi úti campus of the University of Debrecen are supposed to commemorate in the framework of the 4th Plant Breeding Memorial Day and Conference. These capsules contain items from the scientific experiments conducted by Tibor Kapu, the second Hungarian astronaut, as part of the mission Axiom-4 on board the International Space Station (ISS), including sowing seeds, documents and special implements. Bertalan Farkas, the first Hungarian astronaut, was also present at the placement of the capsules.
Increasing the students’ and teachers’ motivation and involving the industrial and business sectors were some of the issues discussed at the CEEPUS Network meeting on circular economy and energy efficiency held recently at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management of the University of Debrecen. There were experts from as many as seven countries participating in this international academic consultation.
Raluca Popa, a Romanian artist living and working in Berlin and Bucharest, is a guest artist at the MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts in Debrecen.
The Department of Animal Science of the University of Debrecen organised a three-day workshop for farmers and researchers working in the field of dairy cattle production in the framework of the Resilience for Dairy H2020 project.