Scientific Student Associations

2022.09.22.

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