evosoft wins award for outstanding support to education!
The Minister of Culture and Innovation, Balázs Hankó, awarded evosoft Hungary Kft. the prestigious Theodore von Kármán Award. István Petényi, evosoft Hungary Kft. CEO received the award from Dr. Veronika Varga-Bajusz, State Secretary in charge of higher, vocational and adult education, Ministry of Culture and Innovation, during a ceremony at The Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) on 30th August 2024.
Photo: Dr. Veronika Varga-Bajusz, State Secretary in charge of higher, vocational and adult education, Ministry of Culture and Innovation & István Petényi, CEO, evosoft Hungary
Responsibly for the future generation of engineers – with this creed, we have been carrying out our activities in supporting domestic education and research-development for over 15 years. Our goal is to reinvest evosoft's greatest value, our knowledge, into education, bring industry and the educational sector closer together, contribute to the enhancement of practice-oriented education, and popularize evosoft among as many students with marketable, practical knowledge as possible.
As part of university education, we are active in six major technical higher education institutions in Hungary. We conduct practical lectures, our colleagues lead courses and lab practices, we have created e-learning educational materials, written and published our own book from which we teach, and participate in Industrial PhD, dual, and cooperative training programmes. We engage in industrial chair collaborations, serve as members of state examination committees and thesis reviewers, and support and judge university-organized events, Scientific Students' Associations (TDK) competitions and hackathons. We also regularly host university and high school groups at evosoft for open days, lab visits and professional programmes to give them a close-up view of the intricacies of the software development profession.
It is a great honour for us to receive this award, as it is given to the few entities in the economic sector that have performed outstanding supportive activities for Hungarian education, training, adult education and scientific research.
An educational institution can nominate a business entity or industrial partner for the award based on their educational and research activities. Our nomination for the award is thanks to Óbuda University, upon the recommendation and proposal of the university's rector, Prof. Dr. Levente Kovács, and the university's faculty. We have been engaged in successful, complex educational and strategic cooperation with the university for over a decade, and we now operate industrial departments in two of its faculties.
Photo: Prof. Dr. Levente Kovács, Rector of Óbuda University, & István Petényi, CEO, evosoft Hungary
At the John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics, the company's employees lead lab seminars, give lectures and actively participate in educational tasks related to software design and development, as well as software technology, in the core programming subjects of the Computer Engineering BSc programme.
At the Kandó Kálmán Faculty of Electrical Engineering, BSc students attended lectures on PLCs and the subject of Modern control technology solutions with Siemens tools, while MSc students received first-hand lectures on electric drives. We also participate in student community life by supporting competitions, the Faculty Scientific Student Conference, and giving lectures in the series organized by the Kandó Kálmán College for Advanced Studies. Additionally, we participate as exhibitors at the Researchers' Night.
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