Scientific Student Associations

2022.09.22.
Scientific Student Associations
Scientific Student Associations (TDK in Hungarian) represent a unique phenomenon of the Hungarian higher education.

The scientific student associations’ movement has been working in Hungary for more than 70 years. Its purpose is to give individual opportunity of research to interested students beyond the regular university classes. The different associations, each including students and mentoring teachers from the same area of interest, are all autonomous bodies within the framework of the higher education. The student members of the associations conduct individual research beyond their academic requirements, and they summarize their results and findings in an academic paper. These papers are evaluated by the different TDKs, and the ones of outstanding quality are nominated to the Scientific Student Associations’ Conference (OTDK in Hungarian) organized biannually. The OTDK is Hungary’s most significant scientific event; in 2021, for instance, thousands of papers were presented across the various sections.

The nominated papers are first evaluated by anonymous external experts, then students give a presentation based on their papers in front of a professional committee of the specific topic. The committee chooses the best papers, and ranks them. Many of the research papers are published officially, and in many cases, this is the first step of a student’s academic career. Most of the instructors at ELTE Faculty of Humanities took part in TDK activities in the past. There is nothing to lose with TDK, but there is much to win.

ELTE Faculty of Humanities is one of the most outstanding Hungarian institutions in charge of talent development. Students of the faculty nominate hundreds of research papers to every Scientific Student Associations’ Conference (OTDK), and they also achieve excellent results in their research fields. The results of the Humanities Section show that every other student ranked excellent studies at ELTE Faculty of Humanities.

The next conference is going to be held in spring 2023. The evaluation period for the ELTE Faculty of Humanities Scientific Student Associations’ papers will likely be in November-December 2022.

Applications are welcome from every interested student. We recommended starting the preparations in good time for the conference held in 2023.

Head of the Scientific Student Associations at ELTE BTK:
NAGY Balázs 
Habil. associate professor

E-mail: nagy.balazs@btk.elte.hu, tdk@btk.elte.hu
Phone: +36 1 485 5200  extension 5441
Address: 1088 Budapest, Múzeum krt. 6-8.
Room: 1st floor, room 136

Scientific Student Associations at ELTE BTK

Scientific Student Associations work in every institute and at several departments of the Faculty of Humanities.

Institute

Scientific Student Associations name

TDK supervisor

School of English and American Studies

Scientific Student Association of SEAS

Illés Éva

School of English and American Studies

Scientific Student Association of the Dept. of American Studies

Szabó Éva Eszter

School of English and American Studies

Scientific Student Association of the Dept. of English Studies

Gárdos Bálint

School of English and American Studies

Scientific Student Association of the Dept. of English Applied Linguistics

Albert Ágnes

School of English and American Studies

Scientific Student Association of the Dept. of English Linguistics

G. Kiss Zoltán

School of English and American Studies

Scientific Student Association of the Dept. of English Language Pedagogy

Veljanovszki Dávid

Institute of Philosophy

Scientific Student Association of Philosophy

Orthmayr Imre

Institute of Germanic Studies

Scientific Student Association of the Institute of Germanic Studies

Brdarné Szabó Rita

Institute of Germanic Studies

Scientific Student Association of Germanic Literature

Balogh F. András

Institute of Germanic Studies

Scientific Student Association of Germanic Linguistics

Brdarné Szabó Rita

Institute of Germanic Studies

Scientific Student Association of Scandinavian Languages and Literature

Vaskó Ildikó

Institute of Germanic Studies

Scientific Student Association of Teaching Germanic Languages

Knapp Ilona

Institute of Germanic Studies

Scientific Student Association of Netherlandic Studies

Réthelyi Orsolya

Institute of Library and Information Science

Géza Fülöp Scientific Student Association of Library Science

Barátné Hajdu Ágnes

Institute of Hungarian Literature and Cultural Studies

Scientific Student Association of the Institute of Hungarian Literature and Cultural Studies

Lengyel Imre Zsolt

Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies

 

Scientific Student Association of the of  Applied Linguistics

Constantinovitsné Vladár Zsuzsa

Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies

Scientific Student Association of the Dept. of Hungarian Language Pedagogy

Gonda Zsuzsa
Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies

Loránd Benkő Scientific Student Association of Hungarian Language History

Sárosi Zsófia, Szentgyörgyi Rudolf

Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies Scientific Student Association of Hungarian Language in Use Bárth János
Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies Scientific Student Association of Finno-Ugric Studies F. Gulyás Nikolett
Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies Scientific Student Association of Phonetics and Psycholinguistics Deme Andrea
Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies Scientific Student Association of Functional Linguistics

Kugler Nóra, Tátrai Szilárd

Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies Scientific Student Association of Bi- and Multillangualism Kissné dr. Bartha Csilla
Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies Scientific Student Association of Hungarian Grammatics Kardosné Balogh Judit
Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies Scientific Student Association of Onomastics Slíz Mariann

Institute for The Theory of Art and Media Studies

Scientific Student Association of Aesthetics

Seregi Tamás

Institute for The Theory of Art and Media Studies

Scientific Student Association of Film Studies

Pápai Zsolt

Vincze Teréz

Institute for The Theory of Art and Media Studies

Scientific Student Association of Media and Communication

K. Horváth Zsolt

Institute of Art History

Scientific Student Association of the Institute of Art History

Gosztonyi Ferenc

Institute of Ethnography and Folklore

Scientific Student Association of Ethnography

Vámos Gabriella

Institute of Ancient and Classical Studies

Scientific Student Association of the Institute of Ancient and Classical Studies

Krupp József

 

Institute of Oriental Studies

Scientific Student Association of the Institute of Oriental Studies

Zsom Dorottya

Institute of Archaeological Sciences

Scientific Student Association of the Institute of Archaeological Sciences

Szabó Gábor

Institute of Romance Studies

Scientific Student Association of the Dept. of French Studies

Körmendy Mariann

Institute of Romance Studies

Scientific Student Association of Hispanic Studies

Menczel Gabriella

Institute of Romance Studies

Scientific Student Association of the Dept. of Italian Studies

Falvay Dávid

Institute of Romance Studies

Scientific Student Association of the Dept. of Portuguese Studies

Szijj Ildikó

Centre of Methodology

Scientific Student Association of Teaching Methodology

Major Éva

Gonda Zsuzsa

Institute of Slavonic and Baltic Philology

Scientific Student Association of Russian Literature

Zoltán Dominika

Institute of Slavonic and Baltic Philology

Scientific Student Association of Russian Linguistics

Pálosi Ildikó Veronika

Institute of Slavonic and Baltic Philology

Scientific Student Association of Slavonic Language and Literature

Kiss Szemnán Róbert

Institute of East Asian Studies

Scientific Student Association of the Institute of East Asian Studies

Birtalan Ágnes

Institute of Historical Studies

Scientific Student Association of the Institute of Historical Studies

Etényi Nóra

Institute of Arts Communication and Music

Scientific Student Association of the Dept. of Music

Hercz Dorman Aliz

 

Scientific Student Association of Women's and Men's Studies

Bodó Csanád

 

Scientific Student Association of Religious Studies

Vér Ádám