Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
MOME ZERO
MOME Zero’s mission
It is MOME’s ambition to become the first net carbon neutral higher education institution in Hungary by 2030, bring its operations onto a sustainable footing, and deliver its green transition.
Through the MOME Zero programme, the university takes an active role in climate and biodiversity projects on and off campus, in sustainability and ecological education across the curriculum, and in encouraging related research and funding activity.
To coordinate and develop this wide range of teaching and research activity, the university has established the MOME Sustainability Office – the first of its kind among art institutions in Hungary – to oversee the university’s green transition.
Alongside its climate goals, the office focuses on reducing waste, supporting green mobility, improving energy efficiency, and advancing climate adaptation and biodiversity across the campus park. It also plays a leading role in improving the ecological awareness and agency of students and staff by introducing new course modules and initiatives that encourage active engagement.
The team
Researcher, Sustainability Training and Grants Lead, doctoral candidate
weisz.szilvia@mome.hu
Our approach
At MOME Zero, sustainability is not just a theoretical concept, but a call to action. MOME is training a new generation of creative professionals who are both environmentally aware and ready to take action. MOME Zero initiatives help students develop the environmental, sustainability, and ecological competencies essential for the 21st century with action-based learning structured around the educational modules.
Our activities
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News
The MOME Budapest Sustainability Office and the MOME ZERO programme received the For the Environment Award at the National Environmental Meeting and Awards Gala on 7 March 2026. Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the award highlights initiatives, organisations, and professionals whose work makes an outstanding contribution to strengthening sustainability, promoting environmentally conscious thinking, and advancing innovative environmental solutions.
In 2025, the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design recorded a series of national and international achievements linked to health, wellbeing and sustainability, reinforcing the idea that community wellbeing at MOME is not an abstract value but a consciously built, long-term strategy.
The Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) has opened a new chapter in its sustainability journey with the inauguration of its Community Garden on 30 September – a major milestone in the university’s campus development efforts aimed at enhancing sustainability and biodiversity.
How does a monumental community initiative like the MOME forest planting reshape student networks? What defines the university’s cycling community? How can we grasp the diversity of the vegetation on the Zugligeti Road Campus? These are the questions answered by the data physicalisation projects created by second-year Designer Maker BA students. The works were developed during the spring 2025 course ‘Data in Space’, run in collaboration with MOME Zero/the Office for Ecological Sustainability and the Designer Maker programme.
The MOME ZERO sustainability programme has reached another important milestone. Designed in collaboration with students, the new composting station will support more sustainable waste management practices on campus from the autumn term. Closely tied to the new community garden also opening later this year, the composting station is more than just a facility – it’s a shared learning environment where students, teachers, and staff have worked together to rethink how green waste is used and reused.
For the first time, the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) is taking part in the Budapest100 event series, which in 2025 will raise awareness about the importance of urban green spaces, gardens, and parks. MOME’s 15,000-square-metre, revitalised campus garden not only serves as a venue but also plays an active role in the festival with its eco-conscious developments and community activities. Budapest100 is an architectural and cultural festival that celebrates communities and the city, bringing neighbours closer together. From 22–25 May 2025, we’ll be focusing on urban green spaces, courtyards, gardens, and green corridors, along with the communities who nurture them.
The Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) continues its forest-planting initiative, with MOME students and staff planting a new forest in the Vízvár area in collaboration with experts from the Danube-Drava National Park on 14 to 16 November. The action will be preceded by professional events at MOME’s Budapest Campus, starting on 12 November with a lecture by biomimicry researcher Yael Helfman-Cohen from Tel Aviv, followed by biologist and Head of WWF Hungary’s Forest Programme Dr. László Gálhidy on 13 November.
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) has successfully completed the first stage of its nation-wide forest planting initiative, with the first MOME Forest growing near Garabonc. The saplings planted by the students in autumn 2023 are putting out their first leaves, and were joined by the rest planted by the MOME community.
This November, as part of a three-day event, MOME students, teachers, and employees together planted a total of 20,000 saplings – the first MOME forest – in Garabonc in Zala county with help from forest engineers and environmental protection professionals of the Balaton Uplands National Park. Braving strong wind and rain, the University community was working over an area of 5 hectares (equivalent to 10 football pitches), planting 20,000 trees in record time.
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) is launching a unique, nation-wide afforestation action. Joining forces with three national parks – the Balaton Uplands National Park, the Danube-Drava National Park and the Duna-Ipoly National Park – it will develop new forests in three locations across Hungary over nearly 50 hectares. When grown, these will help neutralise the university’s harmful emissions. The action will also be incorporated into the training, and staff and students are welcome to get involved.
A marriage of art and nature, the reading cabin built according to a design by MOME’s architecture students can also be used as a bivouac shelter.
Brunch & Knowledge is a monthly event series organised by the Innovation Center of MOME, and gives insight into a vast array of topics, ranging from volunteering and charity to change management. The last online session featured a presentation by ecological engineer Dr. Nadina Galle, who coined the term “Internet of Nature”, a framework of technological solutions to build better cities for both people and nature.