On 25 September 2026, our research group took part in the Researchers' Night at the ELTE Centre for Social Sciences with an interactive programme. The participants answered, there and then, questions that also featured in our national survey of secondary school students this year, and we discussed the findings by comparing their own results with the students' responses.

Health literacy is one of the key determinants of health during childhood and adolescence, yet evidence on the social and environmental factors that shape it remains fragmented in the literature. Our research group's scoping review synthesizes this evidence: after screening several thousand records, it draws on 52 studies to show which social dimensions produce the largest differences in young people's health literacy, and what practical steps follow from this for teachers and educational institutions.

Drawing on Hungarian HBSC data from 2002 to 2018, our research group examined how family background, the school environment and broader social change shape adolescents’ eating habits. Health-protective habits are linked primarily to family background, whereas risky ones, especially sugary soft drink consumption, are shaped more by the school environment.

In the spring of 2026 our research group conducted a questionnaire survey among 734 secondary school students on their health literacy and health awareness. The research report presents the key findings across ten topics, among them food consumption patterns, students' nutritional knowledge, their awareness of dietary issues, and their ability to translate this knowledge into everyday decisions.

On 3 December 2025 our research group took part in the scientific symposium of the Public Education Development Research Programme of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. At the event, the research groups completing the first four-year research cycle of the programme presented their results, certificates of recognition were awarded, and the new research groups were introduced.

On 20 November 2025, Dr. Anna Kiss, a member of our research group, defended her doctoral dissertation entitled "Knowledge Mapping and Knowledge Discovery for the Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) Approach in Sports Education" with a summa cum laude result, in the Sport and Health Education programme of the Doctoral School of Education at ELTE PPK. Congratulations to Anna on her successful defence!