Although the building was completely renovated back in 2013 by the members of the Student Union of the College of Dunaújváros, they accordingly felt the time for change. Since the last renovation, the institution has developed into a university in 2016, so the current Student Union has embarked on a big project.

 

 

The "B" building of the school, also known as B-club, is home of most events, parties, gatherings that are connected to the university’s students. These programs are not only organized by the Student Union, as the building can be rented for private events, and the gatherings of the tradition keeper students are also kept here in a separate room on the floor of the building.

The works started in May 2018 with a student's survey that contained many issues such as the topic of the parties and the state of the building. The summary of the results and the draft renewal based on them were presented to the university top management. The joint agreement was reached, that was initiating the Student Space Development Project.

 

 

 

The first step was to change the building externally. It was necessary to paint the surface around the door as the old Student Union logo was still visible. The new design is projected to be youthful and striking. The new painting of the front were created and designed by Gergő Nagy, a young local artist. Actual works and material purchases started in September. At this time, the front wall section was completed with the recently renewed and completely redesigned B-club logo.

 Designing the side wall took more time, but in October its painting has also started. The idea is very simple: keep going on with the design of the front wall, but in the theme of the Student Traditions of Selmec. Those who have a little bit of knowledge about the university’s traditions will soon see that the colors and the crests of the majors are painted in the order of the establishment of them (Metallurgists, Mechanical Engineers, Information Technologists, Technical Teachers, Economists, Technical Managers, Humanists). In the middle the carriage named Leopold appers.

 

 

And it's not nearly over yet! Although the renovation of the exterior walls has been completed, the project itself is much larger than this. The draft will include the move of the Valéta Commission Room from the upstairs to the ground floor to create a new cinema room in its place. After renovation of the walls and the purchase of the furniture, the club will also be available to rent for everyone. In addition, the inner walls have not been forgotten; in detail, they will also be refurbished. Based on the responses of the questionnaire, some game tools (table soccer / darts, etc.) will also be purchased.

The full set of pictures taken during the renovation can be found in this Facebook gallery here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BclubDUE/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2006796052876239.

 

A strategic co-operation framework agreement were signed about the establishing of Paks II. Investment related University of Dunaújváros Paks Competence and Research Center.

Friday's solemn ceremony were attended by János Süli, Minister, responsible for the design, construction and commissioning of two new blocks of Paks Nuclear Power Plant, dr. Lajos Dorkota, President of the Hungarian Energy and Public Administration Office, honorary citizen of the University of Dunaújváros, dr. Attila Becseházi, State Secretary responsible for Sustainable Development, Innovation and Localization of Paks Nuclear Power Plant, István Lenke Chief Executive Officer of Paks II. Zrt., Géza Pekarik, Chief Executive Officer of Paks Nuclear Power Plant Zrt., Dr. Dénes Galambos, Minister, associate professor of the University of Dunaújváros, dr. András István, Rector of the University of Dunaújváros, , Ádám Sándor Kiss, Chancellor, dr. Mónika Rajcsányi-Molnár, General and Educational Vice-Rector, dr. György Ágoston, Vice-Rector of Science and Research, Szilvia Némethné Nagy, Chief Financial Officer, Judit Kovács, Director of Quality Management, dr. Csilla Marianna Szabó Head of Teacher Training Center, dr. László Balázs, Director of the Institute of Social Sciences, dr. Bálint Nagy Director of the Institute of Informatics, dr. Miklós Horváth, Director of the Information Technology Institute.

Dr. Dénes Galambos, Minister emphasized in his speech that in the framework of a re-commissioning program launched in 2010, Dunaújváros is particularly important for the government and in the future it will implement a number of development programs which is going to provide housing for Paks II's workers and relatives, as well as improving the life-quality of the population.

 

 

Following the signature of the cooperation framework agreement, János Süli, Minister said that during the construction of PAKS II, the University of Dunaújváros has a key role in the field of material testing and welding engineering. The training of an appropriate team of professionals will be particularly important. That will be the task of the University of Dunaújváros in the future.

István Lenkei, Chief Executive Officer of Paks II. Zrt. highlighted in his speech that the University of Dunaújváros plays a major role in the in the future of Paks II., in the training of an expert team and in the development of technology, since the quality of the welding work is indispensable in this field.

Dr. András István Rector took the floor. He emphasized that the University of Dunaújváros has always formulated its training in accordance to the needs of market participants, and it is a great pleasure to take part in the training of Paks II’s professionals. So far, students who have graduated from the university mostly stayed in the region, thanks to Paks II's construction, this seems to be trend in the future as well.

Then Dr. Béla Palotás, professor emeritus, talked about the past of the University of Dunaújváros, which was followed by the solemn opening of the plate of Paks Competence and Research Center of University of Dunaújváros.

 

 

 In the end of the first semester International Office of the University of Dunaújváros organized an excursion to Budapest, the beautiful capital city of Hungary.

 

Despite the chilly autumn weather we had a really good and active time together. Budapest is beautiful. Although we didn’t focus our trip on the city’s main attractions the students were amazed of the atmosphere of the downtown.

 

 

We started the trip with a pretty active program in the morning: we played bubble-football. I can assure I have never seen such a lot falls during a game of football like this time, but it wasn’t matter, the zorbs were protecting us.

After the exhausting program we had a longer break in Allee mall where everyone could grab a bite and have some rest before the last station of the excursion.

 

 

The lunch break were following by a longer bus trip then we reached the Rákóczi Chocolate Museum. There we had an interesting guided tour with a chocolate tasting. We made our DIY chocolate cakes as well.

We can say that the excursion was a great success due to the interesting programs and the continuous cheerful mood. We hope that everybody has got home from Budapest with nice memories.

 

Mohamed Amine Messaoudi, International student at the University of Dunaújváros, won the Special Award at he LEXI AI Generation contest, an international competition in the field of artificial intelligence, powered by IBM Watson.

During the competition students from 8 countries participated in the development of LEXI, a virtual assistant created by iLex. During the development work they used the IBM Watson Assistant technology in order to facilitate the integration of artificial intelligence to our everyday life.

The award has been presented at the headquarter of IBM in Budapest, by dr. Marianna Ritter, founder and CEO of iLEx, and Ms. Katalin Rosta, Head of Department at the Hungarian National Lottery Company.

By winning the Special Award, Mohamed Amine Messaoudi has now the possibility to do a one-month paid internship at the Directorate General of the Hungarian National Lottery Company (Szerencsejáték Zrt.) in Budapest.

Mohamed is an exchange student at the University of Dunaújváros participating in the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility programme.

Congratulations!

Junior Business Café continued with a session about kung-fu, learning and starting an enterprise. This time the University of Dunaújváros hosted the event, the current session will be about kung-fu, learning and starting an enterprise. Our guest was be Attila Kapecska, president of the Kung-fu Akadémia (Kung-fu Academy).

First he gave a lecture in Hungarian language for the locals, then in consideration of the international students of the institution he held his presentation in English language with a Chinese translation. The program sequence is realized from the project EFOP-3.6.1-16-2016-00003, and lectures are open for everyone.

 

One of the events of the Week of Science’s programs was the 3rd annual East-West Cohesion International Conference last week. On the second day, with the help of the Hungarian branch establishment of the Rosatom Central Europe associate professor, Victor L. Slobodchuk Ph.D. from the Russian Federation visited our university who held an interesting and  –  considering the news about innovations of the region – a very useful lecture on "Innovative safety solutions for NPP generation 3+”. He took the example of the VVER-1200 reactor for his research.