Press Releases

SZTAKI, Hungary, leading EU research on active control of aero-elastic aircraft wings

Innovation
Science
09/13/2019 - 11:42
Researchers of SZTAKI, Institute for Computer Science and Control, Hungary, will lead the international project FLiPASED (FLight Phase Adaptive Aero-Servo-Elastic aircraft Design) which intends to revolutionize aircraft wings through developing and testing the so called active-controlled wings.

Symbiotic Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly: Technologies, Innovations and Competitiveness

Innovation
Science
03/29/2019 - 08:09
The next generation of robots could be entering the workplace alongside humans, but this first needs some collaborative principles to be established. SYMBIO-TIC has developed a system for such a safe, dynamic, intuitive and cost-effective working environment.

New software supports the Hungarian Scientific Bibliography (MTMT2) (Press Release)

Government
Innovation
03/28/2019 - 10:08

As of November 1, 2018 the national scientific publication registry system called Hungarian Scientific Bibliography (MTMT) is supported by a new software system (MTMT v.2.0). The Department of Distributed Systems at MTA SZTAKI has developed the new version, on behalf of and in close cooperation with the Library and Information Centre of MTA during the past 4 years.

Nobel Prize holders, aircraft turbines and new Hungarian members: success on IMEKO World Congress 2018

Innovation
Science
09/28/2018 - 08:26
With more than 500 participants coming from many continents, the World Congress of the International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO), already in its 22nd year, concluded successfully in Belfast, United Kingdom, where Hungary was represented by our two colleagues Dr. Zsolt János Viharos, senior research fellow of the Research Laboratory on Engineering and Management Intelligence of the MTA SZTAKI and Ákos Zarándy, head of the Computational Optical Sensing and Processing Laboratory, who was elected to be an IMEKO member.

A successful demonstration event for the INTRO:4.0 EUREKA project.

Government
Innovation
08/01/2018 - 10:29
In order to demonstrate the end of a current 2-year-long R&D joint project, MTA SZTAKI and the consortium-leader HEPENIX Ltd. had jointly organized a conclusive event for a large number of industry-oriented experts. The target of the INTRO:4.0 project was to support and enable SMEs and other industrial enterprises to introduce new industrial technologies, offered by the international movement named Industry 4.0. The project aimed to serve Use-Cases, digital technologies to the manufacturing and other industrial companies.

German-Hungarian Innovation Day in Budapest (Press Release)

Government
Innovation
05/22/2018 - 12:53
In order to deepen the scientific collaboration, the two partners are organizing a German-Hungarian Innovation Day entitled “Partnership for Innovation and Excellence,” which will be held on the premises of MTA SZTAKI in Budapest on May 25, 2018. High-caliber speakers at the event will include Prof. Reimund Neugebauer, President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Prof. László Lovász, President of MTA, Prof. László Monostori, Director of MTA SZTAKI and head of the Fraunhofer-SZTAKI partnership, and László Palkovics, minister for Innovation and Technology. The event will also include the official opening of the offices of the newly established corporation EPIC InnoLabs Non-profit.

After 4 years of research & development the iKOMP project was successfully completed

Science
01/09/2018 - 12:17
iKOMP: “Strengthening of the regional research competencies related to future-oriented manufacturing technologies and products of strategic industries by a research and development program carried out in comprehensive collaboration” (VKSZ_12-1-2013-0038), started in 2014 to encourage the research and development (R&D) in the Western Hungarian region has been ended with success in 2017.

Press Release: International patent of the Fluorescent-Holographic microscope is submitted

Innovation
Science
06/30/2017 - 10:47
Based on its previous Hungarian Patent submission, MTA SZTAKI has submitted an international (PCT) patent for its fluorescent-holographic microscope. The invention combines fluorescent microscopy with digital holographic microscopy technology.

Press Release: The closure of the project entitled "Safety and Economic Platform for Partially Automated Commercial Vehicles" (Project-number: VKSZ_14-1-2015-0125)

Government
Innovation
06/06/2017 - 12:40
A successful R&D project that was launched in 2015 is to be completed in June 2017 by the project consortium. The project was funded by the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Fund and it was coordinated by the Institute for Computer Science and Control (MTA SZTAKI). The technical objectives of the project were to define and implement a set of automated control functions for commercial vehicles.

Two Hungarian research initiatives among ten European excellence programmes launched

Government
Innovation
04/11/2017 - 09:18
The molecular diagnostics of cardiovascular diseases, which are highly endemic in Hungary, tumour and inflammatory diseases, and the development of essential manufacturing and logistics systems for industrial production will be the core focus areas of the two new domestic centres of excellence which were among the 10 winners in the “Teaming” research excellence programme, the most prestigious Widening actionl of the Horizon 2020 framework programme.

Joint high-level kick-off ceremony for the EPIC and HCEMM projects (11 April 2017)

Government
Innovation
Science
04/06/2017 - 09:56
Venue: National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Room 451, Kéthly Anna tér 1., Budapest, Hungary. The event will be open to the press and live-streamed on the NRDI Office website.

Two Hungarian research initiatives among ten European excellence programmes selected for funding

Science
11/16/2016 - 10:09

Hungary was the most successful country in the ”Teaming” research excellence programme, the most prestigious call of Horizon 2020 Widening programme. The two successful projects coordinated by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office consisting of excellent Hungarian and international partners have been awarded EUR 26 million (around HUF 8 billion).

The 2nd Plenary Meeting of the Platform

Innovation
10/17/2016 - 13:30

I4.0 National Technological Platform: The Presidium has been set up in full, the Work Groups have been offiicially formed.

Two researchers of SZTAKI have received recognition by CIRP

Science
08/29/2016 - 09:39

It has been a tradition for the past decades that numerous members of our staff have been contributing successfully in various topics to the management and work committees of the most relevant international scientific organisations. Now two of our researchers have been awarded by a significant forum.

ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" Fellowship Programme is now open

Science
08/26/2016 - 08:20

ERCIM offers fellowships for PhD holders from all over the world. The next round is open!
Deadline for applications: 30 September 2016.
Topics cover most disciplines in Computer Science, Information Technology, and Applied Mathematics.
Fellowships are of 12-month duration spent in one ERCIM member institute.
Detailed description of the programme and the application form is  here .

Applicants must:

The Industry 4.0 National Technology Platform has been established (Press Release)

Innovation
05/10/2016 - 08:44

The Industry 4.0 National Technology Platform has been recently established under the leadership of the Institute for Computer Science and Control, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and with the participation of research institutions, education institutions and companies having premises in Hungary.

László Monostori has been decorated with the Széchenyi Prize

Science
03/25/2016 - 10:43

The most prestigious state award in the field of sciences was handed over by János Áde r, President of Hungary in the presence of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on 15 March 2016, in the Cupola Hall of the Parliament Building.

New international cooperation enhancing the research backgrounds of production control and logistics

Science
02/16/2016 - 14:48

Started in January 2016, the  EXCELL project ( Actions for Excellence in Smart Cyber-Physical Systems applications through exploitation of Big Data in the context of Production Control and Logistics ) foresees the collaboration of researchers from four European countries (Hungary, Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium) in the field of Cyber-Physical Systems and Big Data applications serving production and logistics networks.

Improved version of Occopus has been released

Innovation
01/18/2016 - 10:44

The new, significantly improved version of Occopus has been released.

Occopus can be used by application developers and application controllers to manage virtual infrastructures at deployment time and at runtime as well as to create and provide complex virtual infrastructures to be built by one click even by novice cloud users.


It has the following  new features :

Laser welding with robots at the Science Agora exhibition, Tokyo, Nov. 13-15, 2015.

Science
11/30/2015 - 10:00

Invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade , the Laboratory on Engineering and Management Intelligence of MTA SZTAKI participated as an exhibitor at Science Agora , Tokyo, Japan.