The Confucius Institute (CI) affiliated with the Faculty of Humanities (BTK) at the University of Debrecen (UD) marked the end of the Chinese lunar year, the passing of winter and the beginning of the Year of the Fire Horse with music, dance and singing performances in collaboration with OTT-Home International Meeting Point. Their joint Chinese Lantern Festival, held for the second time in 2026, attracted a record number of visitors on February 28 in the pedestrian street Batthyány utca, located in downtown Debrecen and festooned with red lanterns for the occasion.
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There have been two meetings held recently with the aim of expanding cooperation between the University of Debrecen and Uzbek institutions of higher education. The agenda of these meetings included the discussion of the possibilities of establishing new institutional relationships, launching language courses and implementing mobility ideas.
There were as many as sixteen teams containing fifty students altogether on Wednesday and Thursday, February 25 and 26, at the first Re:Shape the City idea generation contest held at the University of Debrecen, aiming to find new solutions to challenges posed by a modern city.
There are questions and problems around us that even a grade school pupil can understand, but answering or solving them would take decades or perhaps centuries even for the greatest minds of the world. István Pink, a researcher at the University of Debrecen, and his Japanese colleague Takafumi Miyazaki, have found an answer to a question just like that, which has been open for 30 or 40 years. Their solution was published in one of the world’s most respected and celebrated journals in its field, the American Journal of Mathematics.
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