Third Hungarian UNESCO department established

A UNESCO department in Hungary handling the management of water conflicts has been established at the National University of Public Service (NKE), the third UNESCO department to have been set up in the country.

UNESCO department established

Head of the Hungarian UNESCO national committee Miklós Réthelyi told the inauguration on Thursday that the new NKE department will be headed by András Szöllőssi-Nagy, who specialises in conflicts over water and their resolution. The professor spent 25 years as a senior employee of UNESCO, “so he knows the organisation from the inside”, he said.

Defence Minister: Defence research institute, SAAB sign cooperation pact

The defence ministry’s Defence Innovation Research Institute (VIKI) and Sweden’s SAAB have signed a declaration of cooperation detailing the timetable of their joint work, the defence minister said on Thursday.

Deputy state secretary László Deme, the designated chief executive of VIKI, held talks with SAAB executives, discussing specific cooperation steps in the field of extended reality (XR), Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky said, according to a ministry statement.

Source: Facebook/Szalay-Bobrovniczky Kristóf

Under the agreement signed by the defence ministry and SAAB in March, the partners will set up a Centre of Excellence employing AI. SAAB will contribute to the development of the Hungarian Air Force’s capabilities as well as the “virtual training needs of the supporting operational capacities”, the statement said. Also, a maintenance training pilot project employing AI will be launched at the centre coordinated by VIKI, the ministry added.

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