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MOME Healthy Campus

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Abel Djogni
djogni.abel@mome.hu

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MOME and the Healthy Campus Programme

At MOME, we are committed to promoting wellbeing within our university community, encouraging each other and those around us to embrace a healthier lifestyle. MOME has joined the International University Sports Federation (FISU) Healthy Campus Programme, which aims to enhance the wellbeing of students and the wider university community through a holistic approach. This programme goes beyond physical activity and sports, incorporating the maintenance of health (both physical and mental), as well as ecological and social sustainability.

Through the global network of the FISU HC programme, developed with input from thirty international experts, universities can share their knowledge, expertise, best practices, and insights. The programme’s unique digital platform allows universities to track and improve their progress, and the Healthy Campus certification brings international recognition to participating institutions.

The pillars of the FISU Healthy Campus

The Healthy Campus programme is built on seven key pillars and 100 criteria, including

Healthy Campus Management (33 criteria),
Physical Activity and Sport (33 criteria),
Nutrition (8 criteria),
Disease Prevention (7 criteria),
Mental and Social Health (8 criteria),
Risk Behaviour (5 criteria), and
Environment, Sustainability, and Social Responsibility (6 criteria).

Philosophy and objectives

MOME’s goals align closely with the principles of the Healthy Campus guidelines. The programme supports the integration of a healthy lifestyle into university culture and provides various solutions to improve students’ quality of life. Sustainability and health maintenance are also integral elements of our courses and initiatives.

Prevention is at the core of the Healthy Campus programme. Additionally, it encourages the strengthening of social and community bonds, creating networks that enhance the resilience of the university community. Sport serves as a bridge, connecting individuals from diverse backgrounds, academic programmes, and age groups, fostering teamwork and tolerance.

Local projects on campus

In recent years, MOME has launched several sustainability projects and innovative initiatives. These include the MOME HDSE Students’ and Staff Sports Association, the MOME Zero programme to achieve carbon neutrality, the “Tomorrow Belongs to You” scholarship programme, and the holistic redesign of the campus. Through these efforts, MOME contributes to a sustainable future by supporting students from disadvantaged regions and promoting the development of environmentally-friendly transport options.

Health maintenance is also supported through initiatives like the MOME Balance lecture series, Fruit Day, and regular sports events, all designed to connect with the international network. MOME has introduced new eco-friendly transportation alternatives by partnering with GreenGo and MOL Bubi to enable students, faculty, and staff to opt for green transportation.

The future

As part of the Healthy Campus programme, we continue to develop initiatives based on its seven pillars, tailored to the specific needs of the university, whether focused on health maintenance or social or ecological sustainability. Our goal is to inspire students, staff, and wider communities to adopt a healthy lifestyle, participate actively, and volunteer.

Over the next two years of the programme, MOME will focus on continuous development and improvement, with the structure having been developed in the recent months.

Projects

The Significance of Social Sensitivity

I consider the socialization of the alpha generation on digital platforms a great problem since there is no opportunity for true community values and relationships to be formed. To treat this grave situation I offer a program guide providing professional advice, instructions and quality materials.

A visszavadítás kultúrája a Balaton-felvidéken

A Balaton-felvidék az ország legkedveltebb és emiatt ökológiailag az egyik legsérülékenyebb tája. A talajvédelem, regeneratív gazdálkodás, a biodiverzitás megőrzése és az erdősítés mellett az egyénnek is lehetősége van arra, hogy felelősségteljesen részt vegyen a táj helyreállításában, javításában.

Design for Longevity through the lens of Gender Equity

D4L for GE (Design for Longevity through the lens of Gender Equity) is a collaborative research project between MOME Social Design Hub and MIT AgeLab.

EVE - Alarm System

The EVE Alarm System is an IoT solution designed to enhance residents' health and safety in apartment buildings.

Lebomló kerámia - biodiverzitás növelése sivatagos talajokban

My aim is to design ceramic-based biodegradable items that can provide saplings with adequate nutrients and protection even in desert soils, while also improving the quality of the soil.

Modular shoes

Modular shoes are an experimental solution to address the widespread use of shoes that are impossible or difficult to recycle.

Pollino

Pollino is a more-than-human placemaking initiative intersecting design, ecology, and urban planning. It seeks to explore how to reimagine urban landscapes to better cater to the needs of pollinators and enhance biodiversity and resilience.

Spirit AR

Spirit is an augmented reality headset optimised for sport and fitness activities.

Sustainable Communities

Wish you were ear

Animated short film exploring self-image in the context of the impact of relationships on individuals

News

Applications for the Tomorrow Belongs to You 2025 scholarship programme have closed

Nearly ninety applications were submitted for MOME’s Tomorrow Belongs to You – For the Creative Talents of the Future 2025 scholarship programme. Applicant interviews began on 10 January at the MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art in Debrecen and continued at the MOME Campus in Budapest, as well as in Békéscsaba at the Szeberényi Gusztáv Adolf Lutheran Grammar School, Technical School, Art Secondary School, and Primary School, and in Miskolc at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC).

MOME innovation: a special ring to boost the resilience of saplings

Can we do more than just watering to help newly planted saplings thrive? How can we ensure their healthy development and enhance their resistance? MOME students are exploring answers to these questions through an experimental initiative called Green Cradle. Ten prototypes developed as part of the project have already been installed in the MOME Forest in Vízvár.

Sport meets art in the works of the Ezüstgerely Award winners

The winners of the 2024 Ezüstgerely Art Competition included several MOME alumni. Graphic Design alumna Beáta Bencsik shared first place in the Graphic Art category, while Media Design alumna Violetta Vigh took the top prize in the Installation category. Organised by the National Sports Agency, this long-standing award dating back decades celebrates the intersection of sport and art, offering significant cash prizes.

Blueprint for social design: Bridging academia and civil society

"Nothing is permanent, except change." In the fast-changing landscape of 21st-century societal, political, and urban transformations, individuals and communities must continuously adapt to evolving challenges. But how can we steer these shifts towards positive outcomes? What conditions can foster constructive change, and how can design thinking, alongside cross-sector collaboration, drive meaningful progress? These are the pivotal questions tackled by the Change Agents project, a groundbreaking initiative launched in early 2023 by six art and design universities across Europe and Israel. Designed to leverage new methods and strategies to help connect NGOs engaged in addressing social and sustainability challenges with design higher education institutions (HEIs), the project has culminated in a comprehensive methodological guide that could help catalyse social design practices and positive change.

Healthy Campus Programme: Promoting Well-being and Community Building at MOME

By joining the global FISU Healthy Campus programme, MOME has strengthened its commitment to fostering a health-conscious culture on Campus and offers diverse opportunities for students and staff to embrace a healthier lifestyle. With events spanning multiple dimensions, such as physical activity, mental well-being, nutrition, social responsibility, and sustainability, the programme takes a holistic approach to enhancing the well-being of the university community. Over the past months, MOME has not only hosted various events but also joined international initiatives like the BeActive campaign and the Let’s Move for Paris movement, both inspired by the spirit of the 2024 Paris Olympics.

A new MOME Forest in the making: 30,000 trees and growing

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.

Green light for the commute to MOME: GreenGo and MOL Bubi passes

As part of its commitment to sustainability and the FISU Healthy Campus programme, MOME has introduced new eco-friendly transportation alternatives. By partnering with GreenGo and MOL Bubi, it enables students, faculty, and staff to opt for green transportation to the Zugliget Campus.

The MOME community joins flood relief efforts

In recent days, our colleagues, faculty, and students have shown just what MOME is capable of when faced with a crisis. This week, volunteers from MOME have been working in Vác, helping fill sandbags to support official agencies in their flood defence efforts along the frontlines. With the emergency situation expected to last several more days, every helping hand is needed, and MOME is once again showing that its strengths lie not only in knowledge, but also in its ability to act swiftly when required.

Sustainable drawing tool developed at MOME wins award at the New York Biodesign Challenge

Each year, 10 billion plastic pens are discarded worldwide, contributing to non-biodegradable waste that contains harmful chemicals, which can cause health issues if not processed properly. Despite this, coloured markers are indispensable for both schoolchildren and professionals in the creative industries. The pHen, an eco-friendly pen that won the Outstanding Art Award at the 2024 Biodesign Challenge in New York was developed by a student team from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) to address this issue. In addition to this accolade, the pHen team also secured a scholarship and an opportunity for an independent exhibition next year.

Engage4BIO at the Pápa Expo and Agricultural Picnic

The Engage4BIO team demonstrated the impact of circular economy on soil at the Pápa Expo and Agricultural Picnic with an interactive data visualisation board in a collaboration with the National Chamber of Agriculture. The aim was to raise awareness of the importance of maintaining and improving soil quality and the significance of circular sustainable bioeconomy.

Honey harvest at the MOME: the two bee colonies produced 40 kg of forest flower honey!

At the MOME Campus, we recently had a honey harvest! Two bee families named Méz-ga and Tóték settled on the campus and diligently produced already 40 kg of forest flower honey over a month. With the help of certified beekeeper Tamás Kutasi, the university community extracted the 'MOME-honey' and collected beeswax and propolis during the first honey harvest.

Resuscitation game experience designed by MOME Service Design students

The second semester of the MOME Service Design specialised training kicked off with a four-day intensive workshop with lead service designers of Laerdel Medical’s Norwegian centre Katalin Dóczi-Nagy and Antonia Fedlmeier, involving the students in the development of a currently running live project.

MOME students planted forests over 5 hectares in just one day

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.

MOME is among the supporters of the Dual Career Programme of the Hungarian Olympic Committee

The Hungarian Olympic Committee (HOC) signed a collaboration agreement with 23 higher education institutions, including the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design on 29 November. The purpose of the Dual Career Programme is to help athletes achieve their goals (whether by providing physical or mental support) and enable them not to have to choose between sports and studying or working.

Projects by MOME students among the top contenders for the START scholarship programme

The START scholarship programme of the National Talent Center and Design Terminal has launched again, inviting applications by young talents aged 18-35 who want to contribute their brilliant ideas to benefit Hungarian society and leverage them to build a successful business.

Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design and the Semmelweis University signed a collaboration agreement

Two of Hungary’s leading higher education institutions, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) and Semmelweis University have formed a strategic partnership. Together, the two universities will research ways in which design can advance healthcare and the efficacy of medical interventions.

Social design exhibition featuring the joint programme launched by MOME and the Hungarian Charity Service of the Order of Malta

How can design thinking and collective creative activity contribute to the development of various, even disadvantaged, communities? The Social Design Field Research, a collaborative initiative by MOME and the Hungarian Charity Service of the Order of Malta, is seeking to answer this question. Its findings, including the artworks created by children aged 10 to 16 during this year’s summer university, are on display until 9 December on the MOME Campus.

Rudolf Zubovics’s diploma work has been selected by the Hungarian Paralympic Committee

In the spring semester of 2022, the Hungarian Paralympic Committee launched a call for entries for 3rd year Object Design BA students for designing the Paralympic Torch prize.

Virtual reality, social sensitivity and animation sports films: Professional events at Friss Kakas

In April this year, Friss Kakas (Fresh Rooster) Animation Film Days jointly organised by MOME Anim and Friss Hús (Fresh Meat) will take place for the first time. Between 22 and 24 April, Toldi Cinema will not only show screenings of diploma and exam films MOME from 2020 and 2021, but also host professional events dealing with the potential in VR technology, crowdfunding of animation films and the challenges facing animation journalism.

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