The Foundation for Széchenyi István University is providing nearly 2 billion HUF in support for the realisation of research, development and innovation projects at the various university’s competence centres of excellence. These cover key areas such as artificial intelligence, sustainability, mobility technologies, precision farming, and health tech and their related business development.
Széchenyi István University attaches great importance to contributing to the development of advanced technologies and to the development of the region. To this end, the competence centres of the institution have developed several research, development and innovation project ideas of significant scientific value in line with the strategic objectives under the professional supervision of Prof. Dr. József Bokor, Vice President of the University for Research and Innovation. These were first evaluated by an operational preparatory committee and then by the decision-preparatory committee. On this basis, the Board of Trustees of the Széchenyi István University Foundation unanimously decided to support the realisation of 15 projects with a total of 1 billion 911 million HUF , of which HUF 441 million 386 thousand will be granted this year.
“The Széchenyi István University Foundation appreciates the achievements of the University in the field of technological development. Building on its extensive collaborations and wide-ranging competencies, the institution takes an active role in addressing scientific, economic and societal challenges in a sustainable manner. It is also important to enhance the University’s scientific and innovation activities and its international competitiveness. The Foundation aims to contribute to this goal by supporting professionally valuable and innovative research and development projects”, said Prof. Dr. László Palkovics, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation. He added that the focus of Széchenyi István University is on current topics such as automotive technologies, agricultural and food technology, health technology, the societal challenges of technologies, sustainability and energy, as well as digitalisation, automation and robotics.
The funding will also support the development of cutting-edge technologies.
“We thank the Foundation for Széchenyi István University for its support, which will enable us to implement new future-oriented research and development projects at our institution.
Our university aims to become a model institution in the Central and Eastern European region and a global leader in technology. Innovative developments and cutting-edge research are an important element in achieving these goals,” said Prof. Dr. József Bokor, Vice President for Research and Innovation at Széchenyi István University.
Among the projects supported are research topics such as the development of a sustainable health innovation ecosystem, the development of innovations for rehabilitation, the strengthening of the university start-up / spin-off ecosystem, support for family businesses, research into artificial intelligence-based systems and technologies, the development of technologies to support precision farming, and the establishment of psychology-centred research and potential training applications at the university.
“The funding available for the development of cutting-edge technologies will indirectly serve the competitive education of our students and at the same time the quality of the whole university, setting level and calibre regarding training and research expectations.
In addition to being exposed to the world’s most important problems in a modern educational environment, our students will be directly involved in solving these concerning issues and in such the university will provide them an excellent basis for successfully building their future careers.
Our research derived from real-world innovation challenges provides a sustainable framework for the long-term competitive operation of our university,” said Prof. Dr. Ferenc Friedler, Vice Rector and Vice President for Academic Affairs of Széchenyi István University.