Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
MOME ZERO
A MOME Zero célja
The Foundation for Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design has set out to become the first net carbon neutral higher education institution in Hungary by 2030.
MOME Zero also includes active involvement in off-campus climate protection projects, the launch of research & development projects supporting sustainable operations, and related tender activities.
From 2022, MOME will organise all its activities in alignment with the principles of sustainability in an effort to achieve complete net carbon neutrality by 2030. The green transition will affect every area of the university’s operations from improving the efficiency of energy consumption and waste reduction to introducing paperless administrative processes.
Az iroda kiemelt feladata a klímavédelmi célok megvalósítása mellett, a campus hulladékcsökkentésének, zöld mobilitásának, energiahatékonyságának, valamint a park klímaadaptációjának megvalósítása és biodiverzitásának növelése. Emellett az iroda vezető szerepet vállal a hallgatók és munkatársak ökológiai tudatosságának és cselekvőképességek fejlesztésében, új képzési modulok, és bevonódást ösztönző akcióprogramok bevezetésével.
The team
Fenntarthatósági képzések, pályázatok szakmai felelőse, doctoral candidate
weisz.szilvia@mome.hu
Our methodology
A MOME Zero programban a fenntarthatóság nemcsak elmélet, hanem cselekvés is. A MOME a kreatív szakemberek új ökológiai szempontból tudatos és cselekvőképes generációját képzi. A hallgatók a MOME Zero programok keretében oktatási modulokhoz illesztett cselekvésen keresztül sajátítják el a 21. században elengedhetetlen környezeti, fenntarthatósági és ökológiai kompetenciákat.
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News
The MOME Budapest Sustainability Office and the MOME ZERO programme received the For the Environment Award at the National Environmental Meeting and Awards Gala on 7 March 2026. Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the award highlights initiatives, organisations, and professionals whose work makes an outstanding contribution to strengthening sustainability, promoting environmentally conscious thinking, and advancing innovative environmental solutions.
In 2025, the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design recorded a series of national and international achievements linked to health, wellbeing and sustainability, reinforcing the idea that community wellbeing at MOME is not an abstract value but a consciously built, long-term strategy.
The Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) has opened a new chapter in its sustainability journey with the inauguration of its Community Garden on 30 September – a major milestone in the university’s campus development efforts aimed at enhancing sustainability and biodiversity.
How does a monumental community initiative like the MOME forest planting reshape student networks? What defines the university’s cycling community? How can we grasp the diversity of the vegetation on the Zugligeti Road Campus? These are the questions answered by the data physicalisation projects created by second-year Designer Maker BA students. The works were developed during the spring 2025 course ‘Data in Space’, run in collaboration with MOME Zero/the Office for Ecological Sustainability and the Designer Maker programme.
The MOME ZERO sustainability programme has reached another important milestone. Designed in collaboration with students, the new composting station will support more sustainable waste management practices on campus from the autumn term. Closely tied to the new community garden also opening later this year, the composting station is more than just a facility – it’s a shared learning environment where students, teachers, and staff have worked together to rethink how green waste is used and reused.
For the first time, the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) is taking part in the Budapest100 event series, which in 2025 will raise awareness about the importance of urban green spaces, gardens, and parks. MOME’s 15,000-square-metre, revitalised campus garden not only serves as a venue but also plays an active role in the festival with its eco-conscious developments and community activities. Budapest100 is an architectural and cultural festival that celebrates communities and the city, bringing neighbours closer together. From 22–25 May 2025, we’ll be focusing on urban green spaces, courtyards, gardens, and green corridors, along with the communities who nurture them.
The Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) continues its forest-planting initiative, with MOME students and staff planting a new forest in the Vízvár area in collaboration with experts from the Danube-Drava National Park on 14 to 16 November. The action will be preceded by professional events at MOME’s Budapest Campus, starting on 12 November with a lecture by biomimicry researcher Yael Helfman-Cohen from Tel Aviv, followed by biologist and Head of WWF Hungary’s Forest Programme Dr. László Gálhidy on 13 November.
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) has successfully completed the first stage of its nation-wide forest planting initiative, with the first MOME Forest growing near Garabonc. The saplings planted by the students in autumn 2023 are putting out their first leaves, and were joined by the rest planted by the MOME community.
This November, as part of a three-day event, MOME students, teachers, and employees together planted a total of 20,000 saplings – the first MOME forest – in Garabonc in Zala county with help from forest engineers and environmental protection professionals of the Balaton Uplands National Park. Braving strong wind and rain, the University community was working over an area of 5 hectares (equivalent to 10 football pitches), planting 20,000 trees in record time.
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) is launching a unique, nation-wide afforestation action. Joining forces with three national parks – the Balaton Uplands National Park, the Danube-Drava National Park and the Duna-Ipoly National Park – it will develop new forests in three locations across Hungary over nearly 50 hectares. When grown, these will help neutralise the university’s harmful emissions. The action will also be incorporated into the training, and staff and students are welcome to get involved.
A marriage of art and nature, the reading cabin built according to a design by MOME’s architecture students can also be used as a bivouac shelter.
Brunch & Knowledge is a monthly event series organised by the Innovation Center of MOME, and gives insight into a vast array of topics, ranging from volunteering and charity to change management. The last online session featured a presentation by ecological engineer Dr. Nadina Galle, who coined the term “Internet of Nature”, a framework of technological solutions to build better cities for both people and nature.