Call for applications for the János Ujvári Diploma Award

for students graduating in the fall semester of the 2025/26 academic year

The aim of the János Ujvári Diploma Award is to help students approaching the end of their higher education studies to examine the topic of their diploma thesis from an intellectual property protection perspective, with appropriate professional support, and to map out the intellectual property protection aspects and protectability possibilities of the topic they have chosen.

While writing the application, students can learn about the theoretical foundations of intellectual property protection and gain insight into the economic and legal significance of its tools from a practical perspective. By participating in the application, students gain knowledge that they can later utilize in the labor market as researchers, engineers, or in any other profession.

Applicants

The competition is open to students enrolled in higher education, undergraduate and master's programs who will complete their studies by the end of the fall semester of the 2025-26 academic year.

Content of the competition

Graduate students can apply for the competition with a diploma/thesis prepared by them, in which they explore the intellectual property protection aspects of the chosen topic at least 10 pages, or with a diploma/thesis that is entirely devoted to a selected issue of intellectual property protection. When evaluating the applications, both approaches are subject to equal consideration, and choosing either solution does not constitute a disadvantage when ranking the papers.

The thesis must reflect that the student has a basic understanding and interpretation of the intellectual property protection system, and can place the examination of their own topic and solution within it. The Hungarian Intellectual Property Office (HIPO) supports the writing of the application with intellectual property protection training and the provision of an individual professional consultant, whose task is to accompany the student throughout the preparation of the thesis and to help him/her write the thesis.

The application is based on a competition, students can submit works in four categories:

• patent/utility model protection,
• trademark and design protection,
• copyright
• the economic role of intellectual property protection.

Only one category can be indicated in an application, and the project work will later be assessed in this category. However, if the subject of the diploma thesis or dissertation is the result of creative work that affects several categories, the application must include an analytical examination in relation to each of the relevant forms of protection. In such cases, the assessment also covers knowledge of the connections between the forms of protection. The HIPO is entitled – in justified cases – to classify the thesis in a category other than that indicated by the student.

Amount of the application fee and its assessment

Applications are assessed by a committee consisting of experts appointed by the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office. The first three winners in each of the four announced categories will be awarded as follows:

• first prize 250,000 HUF,
• second prize 200,000 HUF,
• third prize 150,000 HUF.

The amount of the fee is taxable income, the benefit (tax benefit) for young people under 25 years of age cannot be applied.

The HIPO reserves the right to change the categories and the number of awards based on the content and quality of the applications.

Conditions for winning the competition prize

1. Completion of a 20-hour distance learning course on intellectual property protection unless the student has previously completed a minimum of 20 hours of intellectual property protection training certified by the university
2. Exploration of intellectual property protection aspects related to the topic of the diploma thesis/dissertation in a minimum of 10 pages. While writing the thesis, the student must consult with the professional consultant provided by the office at least three times. The student can obtain information about the exact criteria for the evaluation from his consultant.

Application process

1. Indicate your intention to apply to the central ujvaridiplomadij@hipo.gov.hu application email address with the following information by the registration deadline:

• applicant's details: name, email address, name of educational institution, indicating faculty,
• title and brief outline of the diploma/thesis,
• indication of the intellectual property protection category in which you wish to apply and the intellectual property protection topic in which you wish to examine the content of your thesis.

2. Fulfillment of the application conditions detailed above.
3. Preparation and submission of the application thesis integrated into the diploma/thesis by the specified deadline. The content of the diploma/thesis will be examined by the HIPO exclusively from the perspective of the depth to which the student has managed to explore possible intellectual property protection aspects.

Please submit the materials electronically, in PDF format, to the central application email address. For all questions concerning the application, further information can be requested from the central application email address.

The applications are evaluated by an independent expert committee composed of HIPO employees. All students will be notified of the results of the evaluation.

Deadlines

Deadline for registering the intention to apply:     December 1, 2025

Deadline for preparing the diploma award application:    March 20, 2026

Applications for students graduating in the spring semester of the 2025-26 academic year will be evaluated together with applications for students graduating in the fall semester of the academic year. All students will be informed of the results of their application by September 30, 2026.

Award presentation

The awards will be presented in a ceremonial setting at the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office headquarters. The application fees will be transferred to the winning applicants at the same time as the award ceremony. All applying students will be invited to the award ceremony.

Budapest, 2025. September 2025

The ELTE–NFI University Film Club screening and discussion series continues. We welcome university members from all ELTE faculties.

In Oscar-winning director Kristóf Deák's film, set in 1951 during the establishment of totalitarian rule, the life of a Budapest family is turned upside down. At dawn, they are awakened by the ringing of the State Protection Authority, who remain in their home and hold them captive for days without revealing who or what they are looking for. The absurd situation is exacerbated by the fact that the authorities also take into custody anyone who enters the apartment. The apartment, like a little roly-poly, swallows up everyone who rings the doorbell. Days pass in increasing uncertainty, fear takes hold of the captives, leaving them unable to control their suppressed emotions. In this tense atmosphere, even the smallest tasks of everyday life become almost impossible to accomplish, giving rise to absurd situations treated with subtle humor that relieve the tension of this work. Based on an incredible but true story, we are transported to the stifling and unpredictable atmosphere of 1950s Hungary.

Date: 22 October 2025, 6 p.m.

Venue: ELTE University Library and Archives, community space (1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 6.)

Starring: Eliza Sodró, Zsófia Szamosi, Ernő Fekete, Gábor Csőre.

Our guest for the post-screening discussion will be János Rácz, PhD, Senior Research Fellow at the VERITAS Research Institute for History and Archives.

Due to limited seating, please register in advance.

Registration: https://www.ajk.elte.hu/content/foglyok-deak-kristof-filmje-2019.e.1933

The organisers welcome letters regarding the film club at eltenfi.filmklub@elte.hu.

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The ELTE–NFI University Film Club screening and discussion series continues. We welcome university members from all ELTE faculties.

Budapest, spring 1989. Petya (Gábor Karalyos) is celebrating his eighteenth birthday. He meets his friends at Moszkva Square and they set off to party. The political situation is changing day by day, but the young people preparing for their final exams are not in the least bit interested in this at all. Instead of the change of regime, Petya is preoccupied with his friends, his first love, his first trip to the West, and his coveted car.

Hamburgers with mixed pickles, a red Lada, and a meeting at Moszkva Square under the clock. Ferenc Török's film quickly became a cult classic, subjectively capturing the mood of the change of regime. Most of the film’s scenes were shot at easily recognisable locations in Budapest: Moszkva Square, II. Rákóczi Ferenc High School, Tunnel, Gellért Spa, Pajtás Restaurant on Gyorskocsi Street, Liberty Bridge, etc.

The film uses archive footage and excerpts from Hungarian and foreign news reports to depict several historical events in Hungary during the summer of 1989, including the reburial of Imre Nagy, the death and funeral of János Kádár, and the high school graduation scandal that actually took place that year.

Date: Wednesday, 15 October 2025, 6:00 p.m.

Venue: ELTE University Library and Archives, community space (Budapest, V. Ferenciek tere 6.)

Director, screenwriter: Ferenc Török

Cinematographer: Dániel Garas

Editor: Béla Barsi

Music: Balázs Temesvári

Cast: Gábor Karalyos, Eszter Balla, Erzsi Pápai, Simon Szabó, Vilmos Csatlós, Ilona Béres, Imre Csuja

Our guest in the post-screening discussion will be the film's screenwriter and director, Ferenc Török.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRHkwO-5fFg

Due to limited seating, registration is possible at the Moszkva Square (Ferenc Török's cult film, 2001) link.

The organisers welcome letters regarding the film club at eltenfi.filmklub@elte.hu.

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As part of the ELTE Heritage Coordination program run by the ELTE University Library and Archives, and funded by this year's collection preservation budget, the Rector's Office initiated the restoration of the historical dean's chain of the Faculty of Law and Political Science. The chain, which had been damaged over the decades, was restored by Szilvia Döbrentei, a goldsmith and restorer working for ARCHEOLORE Kft.

In addition to restoration, new, high-quality, durable storage cases were made for all four historical chains (the rector's and three faculty chains) by Tokkészítő Kft. to ensure their long-term preservation.

The chain of office for the Dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Science was made on May 3, 1960, at the Ötvös Studio of the Applied Arts Company, by master goldsmith József Péri. The chain of the Faculty of Law features a round emblem with a sword pointing upwards and a set of scales on the reverse side, bearing the inscription: "UNIVERSITAS SCIENTIARUM BUDAPESTINENSIS DE ROLANDO EÖTVÖS NOMINATA FACULTATIS POLITICO IURIDICAE DECANUS". The chain links alternate between a sword and scales and an open book with a paragraph symbol, separated by gold-plated links decorated with green enamel.

The chain was made for the 325th anniversary of ELTE, based on the decision of the University Council and the initiative of Rector Gyula Ortutay, based on the sketches of Gyula László. Thanks to the renovation, this university insignia of significant historical value can be preserved in a dignified manner for future generations.

Written by Bianka Kovács-Molnár

An important task of ELTE Heritage Coordination is to manage and showcase the valuable cultural heritage owned by the university, and one of the goals of the meetings held two or three times a year is to further develop professional knowledge and acquire new insights.

On September 29, 2025, Dr. Marianna Berényi, communications manager at the Museum of Ethnography, editor-in-chief of Hungarian Museums Online, and editor of Museum Café, gave a lecture entitled Effective Communication at the ELTE University Library and Archives. In her presentation, she gave a brief introduction to museum communication practices and sought answers to questions such as how to communicate effectively on a small budget, what to base communication on, and where to find reliable background materials.

The ELTE–NFI University Film Club screening and discussion series continues with another SPECIAL EDITION. We welcome university members from all ELTE faculties.

Tamás Almási's dramatic documentary film brings together political prisoners from the Kistarcsa internment camp and their former prison guards forty years later. In the final years of socialism and after the fall of communism, it became possible to talk openly about the historical traumas of the recent past. What makes Almási's film different is that he not only juxtaposes different points of view in interviews, but also personally confronts the former prison guard with his former prisoners. Twelve former prisoners recall what life was like in the Kistarcsa internment camp in the 1950s. They revisit the prison, where their former captor, ÁVH Major Piroska, also appears, and the confrontation they have been waiting for for nearly 40 years begins.

Among those reminiscing are a writer (Magda Vámos), an actress (Camilla Dévay, mother of Dorottya Udvaros), an aristocrat (Mónika Esterházy, aunt of Péter Esterházy), a staunch communist, and a kulak. What they have in common is that they were all sent to Kistarcsa on trumped-up charges, their crimes mostly amounting to having a relative or loved one declared an enemy of the regime, but there were also those who were sentenced to three years simply for kissing near Rákosi's villa.

Date: Friday, October 10, 2025, 6:00 p.m.

Venue: ELTE University Library and Archives, community space (Budapest, V. Ferenciek tere 6.)

Director: Tamás Almási

Dramaturg: Gyöngyi Bende

Cinematographers: Nyika Jancsó, Loránd Mertz, György Kováts

Editors: Katalin Halász, Béla Koncz

Composer: István Slamovits

Our guests in the post-screening discussion will be Tamás Almási, the film's Kossuth and Béla Balázs Prize-winning director, screenwriter, and cinematographer, and Tibor Zinner, historian and university professor.

Due to limited seating, advance registration is required: Ítélet nélkül (Without Judgment, documentary film by Tamás Almási, 1992).

Please send any correspondence regarding the film club to eltenfi.filmklub@elte.hu.

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The ELTE–NFI University Film Club screening and discussion series continues. We welcome university members from all ELTE faculties.

Golden Bear winner Ildikó Enyedi's beautifully shot film, released in 2021 and featuring foreign actors, is an adaptation of Milán Füst's Nobel Prize-nominated novel about the complicated love story of Dutch ship captain Jakab Störr and his wife. One day, sitting in a café, Störr makes a bet that he will marry the first woman who walks in. And then Lizzy walks in...

As soon as he sees her, he immediately asks the charming French lady to marry him. However, their marriage, which starts out happily, is filled with intimate moments as well as agonizing hours. The captain's emotional ups and downs reveal a precise portrait of jealousy and the irresolvable contradictions of male-female relationships. Under the guise of a rich love story reminiscent of One Thousand and One Nights, Captain Störr's lovable, painfully honest character helps us understand the complexity and mysterious beauty of life.

Date: 8 October 2025, 6 p.m.

Venue: ELTE University Library and Archives, community space (Budapest, V. Ferenciek tere 6.)

Director, screenwriter: Ildikó Enyedi

Cinematographer: Marcel Rév

Editor: Károly Szalai

Music: Ádám Balázs

Main roles:

Captain Störr – Gijs Naber

Lizzy – Léa Seydoux

Our guests in the post-screening discussion will be Dr. Judit Szilágyi, chief curator of the Petőfi Literary Museum and researcher of Milán Füst, and Mónika Mécs, the film's executive producer.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NCeLFW2jIM

Due to limited seating, advance registration is required.

Registration: https://www.ajk.elte.hu/content/a-felesegem-tortenete-enyedi-ildiko-filmje-2021.e.1927

Please send any correspondence regarding the film club to eltenfi.filmklub@elte.hu.

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The ELTE–NFI University Film Club screening and discussion series continues. We welcome university members from all ELTE faculties.

Zoltán Fábri adapted Ferenc Molnár's classic with English actors to Hollywood standards. It was the first Hungarian film to be nominated for an Oscar. Ferenc Molnár's 1907 youth novel has been translated into more than 30 languages and has become required reading in many places. It has been adapted for film five times, with Fábri's version considered the gold standard among the various adaptations. The child actors are young English people who were selected from a London drama school. It is an unapologetically genre film, which is perfectly Hollywood-compatible in terms of its dramatic structure, rhythm, planning, set design, and the siege scene in the finale.

It is the turn of the century, and two groups of schoolchildren are competing with each other in Budapest's 8th district. The children playing on the Pál Street playground learn that the red-shirted gang, led by Áts Feri, are preparing to attack them in the herb garden. They choose Bokát as their leader, everyone is given an officer's rank, and only the scrawny Ernő Nemecsek remains a private, who is later unjustly accused of treason. To prove his loyalty, the little boy embarks on a partisan action that later proves fatal, and then the day of the great battle arrives.

In the film, the younger Pásztor was played by Nyika Jancsó, son of Miklós Jancsó, who went on to become a cinematographer as an adult and studied under György Illés and Zoltán Fábri at college. In 2017, he also contributed to the complete restoration of the film.

Venue: University Square Campus (1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1-3, ground floor, A/1 practice room, corridor next to the cloakroom) 

Date: 1 October 2025, 6 p.m.

Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyuWNiQBpZs

Director: Zoltán Fábri

Screenplay: Zoltán Fábri, Endre Bohém, based on the novel by Ferenc Molnár

Cinematographer: György Illés

Editor: Ferencné Széchényi

Music: Emil Petrovics

Main cast: Anthony Kemp, William Burleigh, Mari Törőcsik, László Paál, Sándor Pécsi, John Moulder Brown

Our guests in the post-screening discussion will be cinematographer Miklós Jancsó ’Nyika’, one of the film's actors, and Ambrus Gönczi, local historian, museologist and director of the Ferencváros Local History Collection.

Letters regarding the film club should be sent to the organizers at eltenfi.filmklub@elte.hu.

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The Hungarian Academy of Sciences will celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2025. Among its members are many distinguished students and teachers who have left their mark not only on the Academy but also on the history of our institution. Imre Szentpétery (1878-1950) historian, university professor was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 1929.

He completed his studies at the University of Budapest as a member of the Eötvös Collegium. He traveled to Germany, France, and Italy on study trips, where he mastered Western historiography methodology and became familiar with the major historiographical trends of the time. Using all this, he wanted to introduce advanced source criticism methodology in Hungary, so he focused primarily on historical auxiliary sciences, and within that, on diplomatics. From 1914, he taught at the University of Budapest, then from 1918 at the University of Debrecen. From 1923 until his death, he returned to Budapest to teach diploma studies, heraldry, and historical auxiliary sciences, and served as director of the Historical Seminar. In 1935, he wrote the history of the Faculty of Humanities, and in the 1939/40 academic year, he was dean of the faculty. He wrote several theoretical works in the field of historical auxiliary sciences, which are still used as textbooks and reference books today. He also made a lasting contribution as a source publisher, publishing, among other things, a critical catalogue of the charters of the Árpád dynasty rulers and Latin narrative texts written in Hungary during the Árpád dynasty. He was a member of the Hungarian Heraldic and Genealogical Society from 1902 and its president from 1932. The manuscripts of his university lectures are in our library's special collection, and some of his documents are in our archives.