Corvinus TDK Sections

The Student Research Conference (TDK) is organised by sections. This page lists the sections announced for the current semester, along with their descriptions. 

Section organisation is handled by section secretaries, who are usually instructors of the department responsible for the section. If you have a question about a topic, we recommend contacting the section secretary using the contact details provided here and arranging a consultation. Besides the details given here, the contact information of teachers (section secretaries, supervisors) can also be found in the university phone directory. The section descriptions contain information provided by the section secretaries, which typically includes:

• the responsible department;
• the name and contact details ofthe section secretary;
• a description of the section’s topic;
• suggested paper topics (not for every section).

There are no restrictions on the topic. During paper registration, students must select, in consultation with their supervisor, the section from the list below that best fits the topic of their paper. Since the 2021 call, in addition to the primary proposed section, a secondary and a tertiary section must also be indicated, as at the National Student Research Conference (OTDK). The final section allocation may differ from these choices; it is determined independently by the University Council of Student Research Societies (ETDT) on professional and organisational grounds, taking into account the preferences of supervisors and students. Final sections are launched depending on the number of applications and submitted papers, so it may be necessary to merge or split some of the originally announced sections.

n accordance with the central call of the National Association for Student Research (OTDT), the language of the Student Research Conference (TDK) and the National Student Research Conference (OTDK) is Hungarian. Please note that, under the Corvinus institutional competition call of the ETDT, papers may also be submitted in English, in order to allow non-Hungarian-speaking students to participate in the TDK. The abstract must be submitted in the same language as the paper. At registration, all sections are bilingual, meaning that any section may be chosen as the proposed section regardless of the language of the paper or the author’s language skills. In the case of a bilingual section, authors may decide, regardless of the language of their paper, whether to present it at the oral conference in Hungarian or in English. In bilingual sections, all jury members must speak both Hungarian and English.

When finalising the section allocation, however, the ETDT may create Hungarian-only or English-only sections. The following rules apply to these.

• In English-language sections, only papers written in English may be presented, and they must also be presented in English at the oral conference. Foreigners who do not speak Hungarian may serve as jury members only in English-language sections.
• In Hungarian-language sections, the working language is Hungarian. Although papers in English may also be presented alongside Hungarian ones, oral presentations are held in Hungarian regardless of the paper’s language. Foreigners who do not speak Hungarian may not serve as jury members in Hungarian-language sections.