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Csaba Gyuricza, Rector of the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (MATE), was awarded the “For the Citizens of Somogy County” Prize for his teaching and research work at the county assembly, reports Magyar Nemzet.
The role of self-sufficiency has increased in recent years, and with it the popularity of agriculture.
“It has enhanced the value of the sector and our profession that people have experienced first-hand what it is like when basic foodstuffs are not available,” rector Csaba Gyuricza, told the Somogy county news portal sonline.hu in an interview. According to him, they are helping this by promoting the sector among young people. They are not only conducting an enrollment campaign before the applications, but also during 365 days of the year to raise awareness of the beauty and changes in the profession. As he said,
there has been a huge change in the sector. With the advancement of IT, space technology, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI), agricultural professions have also become trendy.
Csaba Gyuricza. Photo via Facebook/Magyar Agrár- és Élettudományi Egyetem
The biggest challenge of his work, the rector noted, is to build a higher education that will create an intellectual base for the Hungarian countryside and lay the foundations for the long-term development of the Hungarian regions, so that it can serve not only agriculture but also the related sectors in a complex way.
As he stressed, the university’s aim is to make Hungarian agricultural higher education a world leader, as the number one institution in Central Europe, ranking among the top 30 in the world. They have already started on this path, he pointed out.
Kaposvár Campus (southwestern Hungary) is ranked among the top 200 higher education institutions in the world, and thanks to integration, it is already among the top ten universities in Hungary.
This is a direction which is a serious signal for the Hungarian countryside that there is something to build on, that there is an intellectual background, an intellectual aristocracy if you like, on which the future can be built, Rector Gyuricza concluded.
Via Magyar Nemzet, sonline.hu; Featured image via Facebook/Magyar Agrár- és Élettudományi Egyetem