Almost 3000 students had arrived to the campus of the University of Sopron this September for the first semester of the 2022/23 academic year. Approximately 150 of them are international students.

TO OUR GREAT PLEASURE, UNIVERSITY OF SOPRON WAS THE FIRST HUNGARIAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION TO WIN THE GREEN GOWN AWARDS IN THE "2030 - CLIMATE ACTION" CATEGORY.

The award is supported by the United Nations Environment Programme and curated by the British-based Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC) since 2004. The organization, which has more than two hundred institutions as members, aims to support sustainability in higher education.

The National Coordinators' Meeting organized by the Tempus Public Foundation was held in the city of Pécs this year between the 29th of June and the 1st of July. On this three-day national event, the University of Sopron was represented by Dr. Réka Kissné Zsámboki PhD and Tamás Németh from the Benedek Elek Faculty of Pedagogy, Vera Tolvaj from the Faculty of Wood Engineering and Creative Industries and Dr. habil. Zoltán Szabó PhD MBA, Márta Sándor and Boróka Buzsáki from the Centre of International Affairs.

Introduced/invasive species (plants, fungi, insects and vertebrates) have a significant impact on European forests. Many of them caused the complete elimination of a tree species (e.g. Dutch elm disease), while others caused significant tree mortality (e.g. chestnut blight). In the last two decades, many insect species linked to felled or weakened trees have also appeared in this group. The detection and monitoring of these species is a complicated and particularly challenging task. For facilitating it, the FAO, the Forest Invasive Species Network for Europe and Central Asia (REUFIS) and the University of Sopron organised a conference where the latest results of detecting and monitoring of invasive species linked to wood materials were presented. 20 participants from 11 countries joined the conference, but thanks to the hybrid mode, experts from other countries were also involved the conference held between 27 and 30 June 2022. During the three-day conference, the foreign specialists participated in a webinar, field trips, and laboratory work as well.