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At an informal EU meeting on higher education and research, Nobel laureate physicist Ferenc Krausz emphasized the importance of research, innovation, and international cooperation for Europe’s economic competitiveness.
According to Magyar Nemzet‘s article, Prof. Krausz criticized the European Council’s December 2022 decision to exclude model-shifting universities from EU funding, which has hindered Hungarian research programs’ ability to collaborate internationally.
He illustrated this with his own Molecular Fingerprinting Research Center, which is developing technology to predict major non-communicable diseases like cancer and diabetes through AI-assisted analysis of simple blood samples.
The researcher argued that early detection using this technology could address significant global health challenges, especially for countries with limited resources.
Despite ongoing negotiations to expand cooperation with Austrian and Polish research institutes, the EU funding ban has blocked the creation of a Munich-Budapest-Wroclaw consortium. Krausz also highlighted a new CMF building in Budapest, for which the Hungarian government has allocated HUF 75B (EUR 194M) in funding through 2030.
Via Magyar Nemzet; Featured Image: Hungary Today