Dream Monitor by Elmepalota (Brain Palace) received a special prize. The four prize winners were selected from a shortlist that included ten projects further developed with the help of MOME mentors. The popularity of the competition is evidenced by the participation of over 300 students this year, with teamwork and extracurricular learning as its greatest draws.  
 
What will the future bring? How do tweens today imagine the world to be 20 years from now? These are the questions that the creative JUMP INTO THE FUTURE! competition sought to answer in 2023 as well, encouraging teenagers from Hungary and the other side of the border to share their ideas about the future. The innovatively structured programme could serve as a model by virtue of introducing the concept, questions, solutions, and responsibility of design while laying the foundations of interdisciplinary learning, linking to general education subjects, and helping relate to existing knowledge. “Through the entries received for the 2021 competition, our university was able to get a comprehensive overview of the visions of generation Z, while the participants were given an opportunity to unlock their creativity, and develop their critical thinking”, said MOME teacher and project lead Dóra Szentandrási, who worked intensively with the teams together with project manager Erzsébet Szabolcs for several weeks. 
 
The winning project, Purple Pioneers looks at the economic and social problems as well as the geographical properties of the Great Hungarian Plain and would provide complex support to disadvantaged families instead of focusing on individual students. According to the design, the school and residence hall of the future is not only fully green but also inclusive and self-sustaining. Three of the team members – Júlia Murber, Zorka Czibók, and Ráhel Prasch – are students of the Pécs Secondary School of Arts, while one is from the Janus Pannonius Secondary Grammar School in Pécs. The team designed generous community spaces and plenty of plants in the envisioned school and residential building with help from mentors Éva Tornyánszki and Janka Csernák. The residence hall is one of the most exciting parts of the design, with multi-person cabins that can accommodate an entire disadvantaged family, providing not only housing, but also training and thus an opportunity to move on. 
 
Team Batu Khan consisting of four 9th graders from the Lauder Javne Jewish Community School in Budapest – István Kálloy Molnár, Dávid Ujfalussy, Anna Mátrai, and Márk Trencsényi – finished second place with their project Futurarium – The museum of the future developed further with mentoring by Ráchel Győrffy and Zsolt Pataki.  Futurarium is the first museum in the world that focuses on envisioned and fulfilled visions instead of the past”, says the description. The museum of the future features films, objects and models for maximum immersion in the world of Metropolis, 2001: A Space Odyssey, H.G. Wells, or Asimov.