Szabolcs Andr\u00e1si, a student of the Kada Elek Technical School of Kecskem\u00e9t Vocational Training Centre, won the 2023 Economics Olympiad on Wednesday at the Corvinus University of Budapest. In the national final of the international competition for secondary school students, 25 students from 16 schools in 13 municipalities compared their knowledge of economics.<\/p>\n
The Economics Olympiad was first organised in the Czech Republic in 2016. Since 2019, Hungary has been hosting the national competition and delegating the best students from the national final to the international final.<\/p>\n
This year, more than 50 schools in 26 towns, including Zenta in Vojvodina and \u00c9rsek\u00fajv\u00e1r in the Highlands, invited secondary school students interested in economics to participate. 25 students from 16 schools in 13 municipalities competed in the final on Wednesday in Budapest. The national finals consisted of two rounds: in the morning, the students competed in a written test, and the 10 best students took az oral test in the afternoon in front of a jury of renowned economists and professors. Gyula Pleschinger, President of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA), the organiser of the competition, and member of the Monetary Council, and El\u0151d Tak\u00e1ts, Rector of Corvinus University of Budapest, President of the Monetary Policy Section of the HEA and President of the jury of the final, welcomed the finalists and the accompanying teachers before the written round. The other members of the jury were Magdolna Csath, Professor at P\u00e1zm\u00e1ny P\u00e9ter Catholic University; \u00c1kos Dombi, Associate Professor at E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University and Gy\u00f6rgy Kocziszky, Professor Emeritus at the University of Miskolc, member of the Monetary Council of the MNB.<\/p>\n
Szabolcs Andr\u00e1si (Kada Elek Technical School of the Kecskem\u00e9t Vocational Training Centre); Gergely Mad\u00e1r (N\u00e9meth L\u00e1szl\u00f3 High School, Budapest); Bogl\u00e1rka N\u00e9meth (Sz\u00e9chenyi Istv\u00e1n Catholic Technical and Secondary School, \u00d3zd) were the three best students. In addition to the three of them, fourth and fifth place winners \u00c1goston Dud\u00e1s (ELTE Trefort \u00c1goston Practical High School) and B\u00e1lint Kov\u00e1cs-Bord\u00e1s (Teleki Blanka High School and Primary School, Sz\u00e9kesfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r) will represent Hungary in September in Bratislava, in the international final of the competition in English.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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