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8.11 ISES National Section- Hungary

Hungarian Section of the International Solar Energy Society (H-ISES)

I. Farkas
Chairman of the H-ISES
E-mail: farkas.istvan@szie.hu

The Hungarian Section of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES-Hungary) has been established the July
12, 1983 with 20 members.

In that time SES-Hungary was going to be in contact with those specialists who were ready for activity in
a co-operation aiming at the realization of the common targets in the field of solar energy, and decided to
establish the Hungarian Solar Energy Society (HSES) on September 6, 1990. The recent number of members
in the Society is 50.

ISES-Hungary organised an International Workshop with the title of “Development and Use of Efficient
Solar Systems”, on June 2-3, 1988 in Budapest. In the program, outstanding ISES experts from 11 countries
presented keynote lectures in 11 Sections. Total number of participants were 60, from 14 countries. Abstracts
of the lectures have been published.

In 1989 the Hungarian Section of ISES established the “Foundation for the Environmentally Friendly and
Renewable Energy Resources” aiming at to support of the activity of ISES-Hungary, with special attention to
the organization of the ISES Solar World Congress 1993. The motto of the Congress was: “Harmony with the
nature”. The logo of the Congress represented the beam of rays of the Sun aiming at the Earth.

The World Congress has been taken place on the August 23-27, 1993. The Program included also seven ISES
Meetings, and the following Seminars, Workshops, Forums, and Training Courses. Number of participants
of the World Congress was 960, from 73 countries. The Technical Program consisted of 5 plenary and
140 technical sessions, where 853 oral and poster presentations were given. Abstracts of the Solar World
Congress 1993 Budapest have been published. The Book of Abstracts contains the summary of 813 lectures
of the Congress. The Proceedings has been published in 8 volumes edited by the sections’ chairmen. The
Solar World Exhibition was held in parallel with the Solar World Congress. The exhibition area was about
3000 m . The exhibitors were from 49 companies from 14 countries.
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The Organizing Committee of the ISES Solar World Congress 1993 decided to call the attention of the
youth generation to the importance of the Sun in our life, and therefore an International Childrens’ Drawing
Competition was launched with the motto: “The Sun and We Ourselves”. More than 10.000 drawings were
submitted from 12 countries. A Calendar has also been prepared using the prize drawings.

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