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ADA University, in cooperation with the Embassy of Hungary and with the support of the National Cultural Fund of Hungary hosted a conference, titled “Digital Hungary” dedicated to Day of Hungarian Science.

“Digital Hungary” conference was specifically organized to address digitalization of the cultural and scientific heritage.

ADA University's Vice-rector Fariz Ismailzade welcomed the Conference's participants including scientists, representatives of universities, research centers, and diplomatic corps. Mr. Ismailzade recalled that ADA University digitalized some of the ancient manuscripts of the Azerbaijan previously and this year, University supported a project on digitalization and translation of all the issues of Azerbaijan newspaper (1918-1920) from Arabic script into Latin script.

H.E. Mr. Viktor Szederkenyi, Ambassador of Hungary to Azerbaijan expressed his gratitude to ADA University for virtually hosting the Conference. Mr. Ambassador highlighted that Hungary passed from multiple hardships throughout history losing two-thirds of its territory and one-third of Hungarian population during WWI. However, Hungary managed to survive due to preserving its knowledge, cultural heritage, and of course, investing in education.

Sandor Biszak from Arcanum LLC shared has talked about techniques used for the digitalization of historical paintings and showed exemplary digitalized historical paintings.