The programme aims to further increase the number of MOME professionals engaged in research, development, and innovation who seek to broaden their expertise with the latest scientific research findings and are committed to utilising their knowledge for societal and economic benefit. The 2024 winners received their commendation certificates on 13 September 2024. 

Children's rights lawyer Dr. Szilvia Gyurkó’s research paper entitled Design-Oriented Transformation Possibilities of the Hungarian Child Protection System, with Special Focus on the Roles of the For-Profit and Non-Profit Sectors and the Application of a Child-Centred Service Design Approach was completed with DSc Ágnes Kapitány as her supervisor, and the Hintalovon Child Rights Foundation as a corporate partner. The aim was to carry out a comparative study of various international best practices and models in child protection systems, and to evaluate their potential for adaptability to Hungary and for developing design solutions that support social innovation in Hungary and service designs centred on the needs of children and their families. 

This is an innovative basic research project where service design meets child protection. By combining the multidisciplinary application of law, child protection, and service design with a comparative analysis of international practices, the research opens up an entirely new perspective that could be beneficial for all social service systems in the long term, not just child protection. This is particularly relevant to policies and services affecting disadvantaged or underdeveloped regions and segregated areas.  The adaptive reuse of the models developed and presented during the research could also be feasible in these areas. 

Vehicle designer Ádám Molnár explored the impact of urbanisation on people and the environment in his research project, titled Perpetuum Mobile, with a focus on mobility. His work addresses important social and ecological issues, and aims to produce a much-needed and tangible research material and master work that is thought-provoking, inspiring, and integratable into urban planning, mobility, and design, as well as for theoretical and decision-making circles. The research also seeks to answer how a truly sustainable system, operating in symbiosis with the social, ecological, and urbanistic dimensions, can be realised, keeping in mind the principles and methodologies of socially inclusive design.  As a teacher at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design’s Design Institute, it is important for him that his work connects meaningfully to the holistic approach of MOME’s University of the Future educational programme. He had Pál Koós as his supervisor and MÁV Vagon Vasúti Jármű Gyártó és Javító Kft. as his corporate partner. 

The programme is sponsored by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office.