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The University of Pécs setting up a science and innovation park

The investment will be made by rebuilding and modernising two former hospital building. The two buildings will provide a total of 2,600 sqm space for seven research teams, MTI reported.

Increased cooperation with the business sector

The aim of the investment is to „intensify cooperation between PTE and the business sector, i.e. to jointly create innovations and marketable products”, vice rector József Betlehem told the PTE website in September.

At a recent press conference held at the university, it was pointed out that the location of the PTE Nyár Street site connects the different disciplines, making it an excellent base for bringing together the developments already underway and those to come.

PTE Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology. Some parts of the Science and Innovation Park will be built on the faculty’s site (Photo: PTE)

The Centre for Digital Data Analysis and Laboratory will move to the main building with several research groups. Research groups working on health and economic data analysis, secondary raw material and hydrogen technology exploitation, and research and development on smart health applications and processes will be co-located in this building, according to PTE press release.

Seven research teams will occupy the park in 2024

The former pulmonology building will be converted into the Knowledge Management Centre, which will provide the capacities and processes for the flow of university knowledge to industry and for the transfer of knowledge from industry to researchers, teachers and students.

[kiemelt]Construction started in November 2022 and is expected to be completed in autumn 2023.[/kiemelt]

Parallel to the construction works, the procurement of furniture, IT equipment and research tools needed to make the buildings functional is ongoing. The 7 research teams are expected to occupy the completed Science and Innovation Park in 2024.

Hungarian universities became members of the International Association of Science Parks

In October we reported that Óbuda University and University of Sopron are the first Hungarian higher education institutions which became a member of the International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP). Besides the two universities, one more Hungarian entity, the Sport Life Science Park, founded by the Foundation for University of Physical Education, has also joined IASP.

BME researcher won €1.2m in a European grant competition

The European Research Council (ERC), the EU’s largest funding scheme for discovery research, recently announced the winners of this year’s Starting Grants.

408 researchers have won Starting Grants

ERC Starting Grants will help excellent younger scientists, who have 2 to 7 years’ experience after their PhDs, to launch their own projects, form their teams and pursue their most promising ideas. The ERC received 2932 applications from across Europe. Of these, 408 researchers were awarded grants worth a total of €636 million, according to the ERC’s announcement.

Among them, Péter Nagy, the only Hungarian researcher to receive a grant. The scientist at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering of BME won a five-year grant of €1.2 million. His project aims at the high-accuracy, quantum chemistry based modelling of molecular processes, which can also be utilised for the knowledge-based development of molecules, materials, and catalytic processes.

New researchers can join Péter Nagy’s team of 5

[kiemelt]The laureates of this grant competition will be able to create or expand an independent research group, which will allow 4-5 more talented young researchers to join Péter Nagy’s team of 5 researchers[/kiemelt]

– according to BME press release.

Péter Nagy, is the only researcher from Hungarian institutions with a successful ERC Starting Grant application in 2022 (Photo: BME)

The last time a BME researcher won a Starting Grant was in 2010. In the last 5 years, Péter Nagy is only the third researcher from Hungarian institutions with a successful ERC Starting Grant application.

As for BME, we recently reported that it will launch a new English-language bachelor training programme in physics and engineering from September 2023, the first of its kind in Hungary, in response to the shortage of specialists in innovative companies.

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