The Mastercard – Bank of the Year competition, which has become a key professional event in the domestic banking sector over the past two decades, was held for the twentieth time, with the top prize going to OTP Bank. This year, the competition was revamped, with the organizers dividing the nine categories into three segments […]
Residential and public buildings were evaluated on the basis of sustainability criteria in the first Sustainable Building Envelope competition, the organizers told MTI on Monday. The best residential building was the Emilia House in Diósd, designed by Bálint Bakos, Péter Kosik and Máté Molnár, and built by the Equinox International architecture firm. Among the new […]
Coca-Cola HBC Hungary is joining the Hungarian Agricultural and Life Sciences University (MATE) to develop coffee grounds collection solutions to recycle the valuable waste generated by its catering partners, the company told MTI on Wednesday. Ideas are invited from the 27 student teams that applied to the Zaccmentő ['coffee grounds rescue'] competition, which closed on […]
The winners of Generali's sustainability competition have been announced, with the jury selecting the best projects from more than 120. In its Wednesday press release, Generali Insurance recalled that in order to support the stability and efficiency of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their transition to sustainable operations, the Generali Group launched the EnterPrize […]
BME Suborbitals, a team of engineering candidates from the Budapest University of Technology (BME), finished 5th in their category and 9th in the overall ranking at Europe's most prestigious international rocket competition, the European Rocketry Challenge. The competition, organized by the Portugal Space Agency (Agência Espacial Portuguesa) and the European Space Agency, was held in […]
Mobile network operator Yettel's developer competition encourages the identification and development of technological solutions to tackle the energy crisis, the company told the state news agency MTI. The two-round competition, called 'Hack it your way', is open to brainstormers, startups, development teams and programming professionals and targets three topics: reducing household spending with smart devices, […]
‘Plum Naughty Prince’, the work of pastry chef Orsolya Karikó won the title of Hungary's cake this year, while László Gyuris' cake, Grandma's Favorite, won the title of Hungary's sugar-free cake, according to announcements on Monday in Hungarian Parliament. László Selmeczi, co-chairman of the National Association of Hungarian Confectioners, said the winner of the 16th […]
The EU General Court’s new approach to merger control may give the green light to an increasing number of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals. On May 28, 2020, the EU General Court annulled the Commission’s prohibition of a merger proposed by two telecom companies, Telefónica UK and its competitor among network operators, Hutchison 3G UK. […]
Sopron Brewery has announced a contest in which it is seeking the best home brewer and the most sophisticated beer experts. The company would like to find the Hungary's best porter and those judges who represent consumers in the jury.
Trombone player Márk Beke was voted by the viewers of the Hungarian public service channels Duna Television and M5 as the absolute winner in the final of the fourth series of the classical music talent show 'Virtuosos'.
Rapid development of solutions for improving the legal industry world-wide is the goal of the Global Legal Hackathon competition where the winner this year in the private sector category was Revealu, an application from Hungary.
The National Association of Cemetery Maintainers and Operators in Hungary held its First National Gravedigger Contest in the public cemetery of the city of Debrecen. Competitors had to dig a grave of 2 meters long, 0.8 meters wide and 1.6 meters deep.
At the 2016 World Championship in Spaghetti Bridge Building in Budapest, The winner in the Bridge category was the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca from Romania, while the Support category title went to the Technical University of Riga from Latvia.
