Hungary

In cooperation with the Digital Education Institute of Taiwan and the Industrial Development Bureau of the Hungarien ministry of Economic Affairs the Hungarian STEM Platform launched the online course "STEAM Learning for COVID-19 Prevention and Control" based on an existing Taiwanese model. 

The course consists of a series of ten different lessons and aims to help teachers to integrate STEAM subjects into their teaching. Participants in the course receive advise on how the COVID-19 virus works, how it affects them, their school and their community. Activities for students include 3D-printing protective face shields, developing motivational LED-display boards and discussing the societal challenges related to the outbreak. 

The course is suitable for teachers of children between the first and twelfth grades, as well as other school staff (e.g. school managers) and STEAM activity distributors. 

In addition to the course, the STEM platform is making available free web-based learning programmes from other sources. 

The indicators in the report present a synthesis of research and innovation performance in Hungary. They relate knowledge investment and input to performance and economic output throughout the innovation cycle. They show thematic strengths in key technologies and also the high-tech and medium-tech contribution to the trade balance. The indicator on excellence in science and technology takes into consideration the quality of scientific production as well as technological development. The Innovation Output Indicator covers technological innovation, skills in knowledge-intensive activities, the competitiveness of knowledge-intensive goods and services, and the innovativeness of fast-growing enterprises, focusing on innovation output. The indicator on knowledge-intensity of the economy focuses on the economy’s sectoral composition and specialisation and shows the evolution of the weight of knowledge-intensive sectors and products.