Prezilimpia 2025

Here, only your presentation skills matter – we provide the topic, but you decide the specific content and format. Prove in 8 minutes that you are the best at delivering a speech!

If you have ever…

…felt the stage calling you,
…always managed to talk your way out of any situation,
…known that presentation skills are an advantage in every field of life,
…then this is your chance to test yourself in a real competition!

The University of Szeged Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and SZTE Junior Academy, in collaboration with the Ezabeszéd Toastmasters Rhetoric Club in Szeged, are once again organizing the SZTE-PREZILIMPIA competition.
The Prezilimpia is a fantastic opportunity for university students to compete in presentation skills. Students nominated by SZTE faculties can participate, with one finalist from every 10 participants advancing to the final round.
In line with tradition, the best non-SZTE students from Hungarian economic higher education institutions can also qualify for the final via an online competition.The presentation must be between 6 and 8 minutes long, based on the given topic, and can be delivered in Hungarian or English.

Topic: Digital Security & AI: Protection or Threat?
Content: Freely chosen
Language: Hungarian or English
Duration: Minimum 6, maximum 8 minutes
Technology: Slides are optional, presentations can be in MS PowerPoint or Prezi format

FINAL ROUND

The finalists selected by the jury will present live in the final round, where the jury will determine the final ranking.

Prizes (Net Amounts)
1st place: 200,000 HUF
2nd place: 160,000 HUF
3rd place: 120,000 HUF

Additionally, finalists can voluntarily compete for extra prizes in the “Presentation Karaoke” challenge. This unique category tests participants’ improvisation skills. Contestants must deliver a 2-minute speech on a randomly displayed slide deck created by the organizers. The slides (which may include images, graphs, drawings, charts, etc.) are unrelated and change every 15 seconds automatically.

Karaoke Challenge Prizes (Net Amounts)
1st place: 45,000 HUF
2nd place: 35,000 HUF
3rd place: 25,000 HUF

Why Should You Join?
A great opportunity to enhance your presentation skills – essential for success in any career. Finalists (whether from the SZTE faculty round or the online selection) will compete live and receive professional training with a mentor to perfect their speech. The project’s partner is the Szeged chapter of Toastmasters International, the world’s largest public speaking and leadership training organization. Toastmasters International operates in 141 countries, with over 14,600 clubs and 352,000+ members worldwide.

Compete among the best and experience what it’s like to prepare in a professional environment!

Final Round Date: May 8, 2025 – 14:00

Thought-Provoking Questions

In today’s world, it is unimaginable to live without digital tools and activities. The economy, healthcare, education, and science—both societal groups and individuals—utilize, demand, and create vast amounts of data. These data guide our daily decisions and learning processes. Recently, not only humans but also machines have been using our data for learning and decision-making, as the use of artificial intelligence (AI) spreads rapidly across the globe. Are we equally enthusiastic about generating new data and protecting existing ones? How concerned are we about basing our decisions on false or inaccurate data? Do decisions made by humans and intelligent software unfold similarly? When can more accurate, better, and more “human” decisions be made? How do judges, doctors, and engineers make judgments based on digital data? Who can reliably monitor our data and its authenticity? In this century, the security of information equates to the security of our person and personality. Is the growth of data sets and their use by AI a threat or an additional opportunity? In work, education, research—across all aspects of life—we must find the right answers.