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Prime Minister Orban: Hungary on its way to becoming R+D hub
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A whole network of scientific research centres must be established so as to make Hungary a research and development hub as well as a manufacturing centre, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said, addressing the ELI laser centre’s foundation stone laying ceremony in Szeged, South Hungary.
Hungary, the Czech Republic and Romania won a joint bid in October 2009 to run the EU Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) project, which Hungary will host at the University of Szeged.
The Prime Minister pointed out the recent completion of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ (MTA) research centre for natural sciences and of the data centre of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, known as CERN.
He expressed his hope that several new research centres would be built that would turn Hungary into a hub for Research and Development.
Funding for science has increased considerably since 2010 thanks to a plan drafted by the MTA within the framework of a long-term strategy, he added.
Gábor Szabó, Rector of the University of Szeged, stressed at the event that the establishment of the research centre may ensure Europe’s continues supremacy within the field of laser physics.