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80% of Europe's buildings will still be in use in 2050. Action is needed to preserve their integrity and value. Modern countries generate an incomparable amount of data and information about the building stock, such as 3D geometry data, operational information, measurements, etc., which are usually lost or unused, unstructured and not updated. The vision of the EU-funded BUILDCHAIN project is that this information and data have the potential to change the way we design, construct, and maintain our buildings.

In just over 7 months, following the incident involving the T-FLEX demonstrator in August, 2022, the FLiPASED project-team (i.e., engineers and technicians from SZTAKI, Technical University of Munich, German Aerospace Center (DLR), ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab) has made a remarkable effort to redesign and rebuild the aircraft, carry out static and ground vibration tests, and ultimately conduct flight tests.

SZTAKI is the Hungarian HUB for the Gaia-X European data sharing technology project. Therefore, it was obvious that our institute was represented at the Market-X conference in the Austrian capital on 14-15 March. Róbert Lovas, Gábor Érdi-Krausz and Ákos Hajnal aimed to gather more knowledge and contacts about the project's status and the European participants.

Co-organised by the Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory (MILAB) and the Autonomous Systems National Laboratory (ARNL) – both coordinated by SZTAKI – and Neumann Nonprofit Ltd., the international AI & AUT EXPO was held between 14-15 February 2023 at the Hungarian Railway Museum in Budapest.

Christian Szegedy of Google Research gave a presentation in English at the MILAB Basic Research seminar. The presentation, "AI for Mathematics and Autoformalization", 22 February 2023, is available online. Christian Szegedy also gave a presentation during the AI & AUT EXPO, co-organised by MILAB.

The AI & AUT EXPO, co-organised by the national laboratories coordinated by SZTAKI and Neumann Nonprofit Public Benefit Ltd., attracted more than 480 visitors in two days.

The DigiPrime H2020 project provides a digital platform to help achieving the goal of circular economy. Representatives of the consortium of three dozen partners from Italy, Greece, Germany and Hungary spent time at SZTAKI from 31 January to 2 February.

Upon László Monostori, director of the institute the Doctor honoris causa (Dr. h. c.) title of the Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary was conferred on November 23, 2022.

On 30 November 2022, the COPROLOGS project's final meeting was held at SZTAKI, coordinated by József Váncza, project leader.

On 29 November 2022, a high-level delegation from the University of Transport and Communications (UTC) of Vietnam visited SZTAKI. The delegation was led by Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Long, President of the aforementioned University.

A conference on the ’Safety and Security Related Applications of UAVs in the Home Affairs Sector" was held in the Marble Hall in the Ministry for Home Affairs.

András Mihály, research associate at the SZTAKI Systems and Control Theory Research Laboratory, defended his PhD thesis with a prime result.

Dr Miklós Maróth, President of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network extended the mandate of Dr László Monostori as SZTAKI’s director by further 5 years.

Elisabeth Angyalka Ilie-Zudor, Director's Advisor at SZTAKI and senior researcher of the Research Laboratory on Engineering & Management Intelligence, will participate in a panel discussion where participants from European Partnerships will share their experiences.

In the framework of the H2020 FLiPASED project, a group of SZTAKI researchers - led by Bálint Vanek - participated in a working visit to Munich.

A SZTAKI és a Fraunhofer Társaság közös vállalata, az EPIC InnoLabs által szervezett eseményen iparági szakemberek tartottak szakmai előadásokat. Mindegy 140 vendég vett részt a rendezvényen.

The research and development (R&D) projects, developments and results of SZTAKI were presented to the delegation by the Institute's researchers. The American guests were mainly interested in aeronautical and automation solutions, therefore the programme was set accordingly.

The Distributed Knowledge Graphs (DKG) project, financed by the COST programme, held its face-to-face annual Management Committee meeting hosted by the Department of Distributed Systems of SZTAKI on 13-14 October.

In the frame of the 4th ZalaZONE Innovation Day that was held on 30 September 2022 (4ZZID), ARNL researchers and developers held several live vehicle demonstrations for interested visitors and for the representatives of the Ministry of Technology and Industry (TIM) at the ZalaZONE automotive test track.

Péter Gáspár, Head of the Systems and Control Research Laboratory of SZTAKI, and also the Technical Director of the National Laboratory of Autonomous Systems (ARNL), held his inaugural lecture as an elected Full Member of the HAS on 19 October 2022.