Visit by students from the Kerpel-Fronius Ödön Talent Development Program to our institute
Just a week ago, students from five high schools visited us as part of the MTÜ program, where they attended lectures and visited laboratories. On Wednesday and Thursday (November 19-20), students from Semmelweis University's Talent Development Program will visit us, and we may welcome some of them as TDK students in a few years' time, as their visit here has inspired them to pursue neuroscience.
The talent development program named after Ödön Kerpel-Fronius, a former professor at Semmelweis University, was launched in 2007 with the primary goal of identifying, nurturing, and assisting talented students who are coming to or already studying at the university. Students accepted into the nearly 20-year-old program receive primarily specialized professional guidance and scholarship opportunities provided by the university and sponsors.
The fact that the Ödön Kerpel-Fronius Talent Development Program is a living organization is also demonstrated by the fact that its talented students continue to feel like members. How can we say this? Because we also have people who have won this opportunity, and it was with their help that the students visiting our institute arrived on time and moved on to the rest of the day's program.
One of them is Marianna Matányi, who shared the following about the program:
"I attended the Faculty of Medicine at Semmelweis University, where I joined the Kerpel-Fronius Ödön Talent Development Program. I helped accompany high school students to various clinics and locations on several occasions, and I also participated in organizing several Kerpel events. One of the events of the program is Talent Day, which has been held for several years for SE partner high schools. These schools are selected based on several criteria, one of which is which high schools send the best students to the university.
This year's event is expected to attract around 300 high school students from all regions of the country and from across the border, so the program has been planned for two days: November 19-20, 2025.
The aim is to introduce students to the basics of the medical and research professions through practical examples and experiential activities, and to motivate them to continue their studies.
The organizers contacted me this year as a former Kerpeles student so that students could visit HUN-REN KOKI as part of the program again this year.
Students could decide which institute they would like to visit based on the institute brochures sent to them in advance. "
KOKI program for the two days
11:30-12:00 Lecture by Gábor Nyiri on brain research and memory
12:00-13:00
1. Pál Vági - Presentation of the light microscope center
2. Virág Takács - Presentation of images taken with an electron microscope
3. Albert Miklós Barth - Presentation of electrophysiological examination methods
