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The 34th National Science and Innovation Olympiad (OTIO) for young people aged 14-19 has been announced, with a total of more than five million forints in prizes and reimbursements for young people starting an independent project, and special support for the most successful preparatory teachers and secondary schools.

The Hungary Innovation Summit kicked off this year's Innovation Week in Budapest. Organised by the Hungarian Innovation Agency, the Summit featured presentations, workshops and panel discussions with national and international experts discussing the future of innovation, the societal challenges of new technologies and internationally successful models for building innovation ecosystems.

From September, the Hungarian Startup University Program (HSUP) will be available again in more than 30 higher education institutions. The two-semester course aims to broaden students' knowledge of innovation and to encourage them to create start-ups based on their own projects. From the 2024/25 academic year, the programme will be relaunched with a completely renewed curriculum and will be available in English, the international language of innovation, as successful start-up founders need to be able to pitch to foreign investors, customers and other partners.

An international conference will open Hungary Innovation Week, a series of events organised by the Hungarian Innovation Agency (NIÜ). The Hungary Innovation Summit is the flagship event for those interested in innovation, technological developments and innovative ideas. The Summit keynote speaker will be Jon Medved, founder and CEO of the global venture capital platform OurCrowd. The Hungarian government aims to make Hungary one of the top ten most innovative countries in Europe by 2030.

There is a growing number of innovative young people and businesses in Hungary, but many of them need help to turn their ideas into a successful product or service. The Hungarian Innovation Agency's (NIÜ) IMPULSE programme, which supports Hungarian businesses and start-ups to exploit their innovations with high market potential through group and personal mentoring and knowledge transfer, helps them to do this.

The Hungarian Innovation Agency (NIÜ) will provide HUF 30 million in 2024 to support the creation of national innovation events. The Agency's key mission is to deepen innovation knowledge and to make the ecosystem more dynamic by organising various national and international events, supported by the Event Support Programme for actors in the domestic innovation ecosystem.

Knowledge-sharing, networking and advocacy are the main objectives of the International Association of Science Parks (IASP), which brings together more than 350 organisations from 77 countries and of which the Hungarian Innovation Agency (NIÜ) has become an official member. As a result of IASP membership, university-based Science Parks will have access to international experience, best practices, data and a vibrant network of contacts, further strengthening their key role in connecting universities and the economy.

A total of HUF 45 million has been awarded to the most promising university innovation projects under the Hungarian Startup University Program (HSUP). The two semester-long university courses run under the auspices of the Hungarian Innovation Agency (NIÜ) ended with Demo Day. At the event in Budapest, 15 teams presented their innovative projects to a jury of renowned experts, and the most promising of them were awarded professional prizes. The Demo Day also included a presentation of the changes to be introduced from next academic year, the modernised curriculum, the new image and the announcement of the launch of the HSUP Advanced programme for doctoral students and researchers in postdoctoral programmes in the autumn.

The Enterprise Horizon programme, the Hungarian Innovation Agency's (NIÜ) latest service, provides information to help innovative businesses successfully participate in Horizon Europe, the world's largest R&D and innovation programme, and build international consortia. The first workshop (START) will take place on 4 July 2024 at the NIÜ.

Fifty years ago, in 1974, he invented the invention of the. Ernő Rubik invented his logic game originally intended for educational purposes, which eventually conquered the world as the Rubik's Cube, and to this day is one of the main symbols of Hungarian creativity and innovation. It shows that a good innovation can sustain interest for decades. Would it be easier for inventors to make their inventions a success in the present? To this end, the Hungarian Innovation Agency (NIÜ) was created with the mission to help bring excellent innovative projects like the Rubik's Cube to market.

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