Contrary to its usual practice, the Senate met in two venues: after the pre-defined items on the agenda, the meeting continued in the auditorium on the ground floor, due to the wide interest in the last item. According to the preliminary agenda, the Senate adopted the new regulations on admission to master programmes and on Study Abroad, and made a decision on the awarding of a Professor Emeritus title. Outside the agenda, the Senate discussed the issue ‘Lessons and conclusions for the Senate from ethics and irregularity procedures conducted during the year’.

A half-day hiking trip in the Pils Biosphere Reserve is worth HUF 2 900, a full-day excursion HUF 5 000 for hikers, according to a study by the Corvinus University of Budapest, which analyses data from 2020. The area offers a value of around HUF 4 billion a year to hikers. The recreational value of all Hungarian forests is about HUF 39 billion, which is one fifth of the market value of the timber harvested annually.

Dóra Horváth and Péter Fehér got involved in the planning of the Ménesi Road Campus at a very early stage. The Head of the Department of Marketing and Design Communications and the University's Head of International Relations have both played a major role in shaping the teaching activities of the new campus.

Our university was represented by four undergraduate students at the "NHH International Case Competition 2023".

Over the years, Tamás Mizik has developed a well-established system to find time for doing research and for publishing his results. In our series on recently appointed university professors, we spoke to a researcher at the Institute of Sustainable Development, who also gave some useful advice for early career researchers.

Emilia Németh-Durkó, assistant professor at Corvinus, received a special prize for her research project on banks in the service of the green transition.

Csaba Vladár, Head of the Corvinus Physical Education and Sports Centre and Gábor Szőcs, the team's coach, spoke at the event.

What kind of spaces can attract young people to university and how can a huge building complex fit into a green hillside? We talked to Péter Kis, the architect of the new Corvinus University Campus in Ménesi Street, the lead designer of PLANT - ATELIER PETERKIS and Anikó Tóth, the interior designer.

What happens to a company when profit maximisation is not the highest priority for its managers? Edited by the professors of Princeton University and Corvinus, and published by Springer, the collection of papers titled Humanities as a Resource and Inspiration for Humanizing Business has recently been published, with the authors presenting different perspectives to argue for a more human-centred way of doing business.

This year, Corvinus University hosted the International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunication, sponsored by the IEEE World Association for the Advancement of Science, chaired by Professor Péter Baranyi.