The Technology Transfer Center (TTO) of the University of Szeged (SZTE TTC) has signed a strategic partnership and cooperation agreement with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)!
The signing took place at the 21st UNIDO Global Industry Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It was an exceptional honor that the agreement was signed by Fatou Haidara, the Deputy to the Director General and Managing Director for Global Partnerships and External Relations — the second-highest ranking leader of UNIDO — in the presence of the UN diplomatic delegation of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
During the signing ceremony, Ms. Haidara emphasized that UNIDO has high expectations for the collaboration and highlighted the outstanding quality of the SZTE TTC’s preparatory professional work — a key reason why UNIDO opened this unique opportunity for the University of Szeged’s Technology Transfer Company.
UNIDO is the world’s leading global innovation and industrial development agency, a specialized organization of the United Nations with the mandate to promote, accelerate, and support inclusive and sustainable industrial development. UNIDO provides support to its 173 member states through four core functions: technical cooperation, action-oriented research and policy advisory services, normative and standard-setting activities, and the promotion of knowledge- and technology-transfer partnerships.
This agreement is exceptionally exclusive: UNIDO collaborates with fewer than 50 universities worldwide, and the University of Szeged is the first and only Hungarian institution to earn this distinguished status through its technology transfer company.
Following the establishment of the partnership, the SZTE TTC team has been invited to several closed-door consultations and roundtable discussions in the coming days, particularly in the fields of: Artificial Intelligence, MedTech and health innovation, AgriTech, and technology transfer–driven industrial development. This partnership marks a historic step forward not only for the University of Szeged, but for Hungary’s innovation ecosystem as a whole.
