Even the biggest setbacks can lead to global success—as shown by the creation of the learning-support app Voovoo— or a pharmaceutical research company employing 80 people today can grow out of a cramped research room, as demonstrated by the Turbine team. The short stories of how these two startups were founded and developed are now available online in Márton Szirmai’s video series about Hungarian inventors and startups.

How do interpersonal networks shape the economic and technological development of cities and regions? Balázs Lengyel, a researcher at Corvinus University of Budapest and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics of HUN-REN CERS, is seeking answers to this question with newly awarded funding under the Momentum (Lendület) Programme.

A study abroad programme is not just about university lectures. In Grenoble, France, Réka got to experience the thrill of stepping into the unknown. Réka Sie’s report on her study abroad experiences through the Pannónia Scholarship Programme.