After a four-year interruption, Erasmus+ mobility is set to resume at the University of Szeged (SZTE), opening the door to new international opportunities for students and staff. The Tempus Public Foundation has signed the University’s 2026 institutional grant agreement, removing the final administrative obstacle to the program’s relaunch. Despite the restrictions that had prevented SZTE from participating in Erasmus+ mobility activities, the University has maintained the vast majority of its international partnerships, preserving ties with approximately 575 European institutions and keeping nearly 1,200 bilateral Erasmus agreements active. With this extensive network still in place, mobility activities are expected to resume gradually, with the first opportunities potentially available as early as the fall semester of 2026 and broader participation anticipated from the 2027–2028 academic year onward.

Eighty-six years separate the Nobel Prizes awarded to Albert Szent-Györgyi and Katalin Karikó, yet the two scientists’ stories are closely connected through Szeged, a city that played a formative role in both of their careers. Their shared ties to the University of Szeged are reflected in several places across the city, but one holds particular significance: a room in a university building on Dóm Square. The room was once used by Szent-Györgyi, whose pioneering research in Szeged earned him the 1937 Nobel Prize for his discoveries concerning biological combustion processes and vitamin C. In the autumn of 2023, eighty-six years after that historic achievement, the room gained a new connection to Nobel Prize history when its key was presented to Katalin Karikó, who had just been awarded the Nobel Prize for her groundbreaking discoveries involving messenger RNA. Now associated with two world-renowned scientists, the room stands as a symbol of Szeged’s enduring tradition of scientific excellence, connecting generations of groundbreaking research across nearly a century.

The University of Szeged is pleased to announce the opening of applications for its international self-financed study programs starting in spring 2027.

Two mathematicians and a biophysics doctoral student will take center stage at the 2026 JATE Award gala on November 14. Established by Nobel laureate and University of Szeged professor Katalin Karikó, the award takes its name from József Attila University (JATE), a predecessor of today's University of Szeged. This year's honorees are Abel Prize-winning mathematician and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences László Lovász, recognized in the category for former JATE or SZTE students and faculty members; internationally renowned expert in mathematical modeling Gergely Röst, honored in the category for current SZTE faculty members and researchers; and biophysics doctoral student Tamás Gergely Iványi, selected in the student category.