Hungarian Drone Coalition elects board members

The Hungarian Drone Coalition elected its nine board members and approved the establishment of its professional working groups at its first plenary session on Tuesday, the Ministry of Innovation and Technology (ITM) said in a statement.

Set up by ITM, Széchenyi University, the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and air traffic control company HungaroControl, the coalition aims to develop a strategy on the implementation, manufacture and research of drones, the ministry noted.

The coordination tasks of the coalition will be carried out by the Institute for Transport Sciences (KTI) and the government’s digital welfare programme.

András Levente Gál, a head of the digital welfare programme, noted that the programme was used to launch the Hungarian 5G Coalition in 2017 and the Artificial Intelligence Coalition in 2019.

Dániel Rohács, the head of the Drone Coalition, said

the body’s most important task would be to develop a vision and a drone strategy to serve as guidelines for the decisions that will need to be made over the coming years.