XIX. Szentágothai János Multidiszciplináris Konferencia és Hallgatói Verseny = XIX. János Szentágothai Multidisciplinaty Conference and Student Competition

Dear Participants of the 19th János Szentágothai Multidisciplinary Conference! Dear Competitors, dear Members of the Jury, dear Organizational Team! It is a privilege and a great honor for me, as one of the founding presidents of the János Szentágothai Scholastic Honorary Society, to express my welcome to all of you on this promising day. We have to work under challenging circumstances in academia as well – in education, in research and in scholarly cooperation alike. The present conference, the 19th in a series of the János Szentágothai Multidisciplinary Conference is an international one, which comprises both the 18th conference that had to be postponed last year and the 19th conference down the line which is the first green conference of its kind: 147 participants have registered for the online conference, out of which only one third have requested the printed version of the conference proceedings! We consider it an important step forward! The Szentágothai Scholastic Honorary Society was founded at the University of Pécs in 2004 with a purpose of attracting and fostering talented young people to engage in extra-curricular research and cultural activities, forming scholastic networks within the confines of the University of Pécs, and also outside the university. Therefore, more and more effort was invested and attempts were made to make the activities of the Szentágothai Scholastic Honorary Society internationally active and visible. Today, our Society functions as an accredited EU Talent Point which makes it possible for us to organize international conferences and invite competitions from all over the world. The 19th János Szentágothai Multidisciplinary Conference (shortly JSMC 2021) is a one-day online conference. The organizers had to gather their wits and organizational competences to accommodate all the participants in their respective sections, in which their presentations will be assessed and evaluated with prizes in sight. In each section the best students with the most successful presentations will be evaluated by appointed juries and will be conferred first, second and third prizes. All participants will earn a diploma of participation at the end of the conference. The great number of registered presentations made it necessary to organize the conference in several parallel sessions. Although the fundamental philosophy of the Society is to pursue scientific quests with a transdisciplinary approach, the presentations during the conference will be allocated to sessions according to their main adherence to relevant disciplines, such as session in Engineering Sciences, Medical Sciences, Sports Sciences, History, Biology, Health Sciences and Pharmacology, Military Sciences, Law and Economics, Pedagogy, Psychology, Natural Sciences and Geography.