Presentation at CUBCCE Conference 2019, Budapest

1. Szent Istvan University, Gödöllő
Smart specialization: a case study
Conference on University Business Cooperation in Central Europe,
Budapest, 5-6 December 2019.

2. Szent István Egyetem, 2100 Gödöllő, Páter Károly utca 1. ,Tel.: 06-28-522-000, Fax: 06-28-410-804, E-mail: info@szie.hu
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3. Faculties of Szent István University
 Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering (Budapest)
 Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (Gödöllő)
 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (Gödöllő)
 Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences (Gödöllő)
 Faculty of Agriculture and Economics (Szarvas)
 Faculty of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism (Budapest)
 Faculty of Horticulture (Budapest)
 Faculty of Food Sciences (Budapest)

4. Szent István University in figures
(2019)
Number of faculties: 8
Number of students: 12000
(including students in the correspondence and distance-learning trainings)
Number of international students: 1400
Number of PhD schools: 10
Number of PhD students: 500
Number of academic staff: 900
(professors + associate professors, assistant professors, research fellows etc.)
Number of staff: 1700
Languages of the courses: Hungarian, English

5. Research focuses at SZIU
S3 priority areas University focus Faculty
Agricultural innovation Precision agriculture
Water management
MKK, GEK
Sustainable environment Environmental risk
management
MKK
Healthy local food Smart food, traceability ETK, GEK
Clean and renewable energies Solar technologies,
biomass based energy
GEK, MKK, GTK
Advanced technologies in the
vehicle and other machine
industries
Irinyi-plan, agri-
machines, industry 4.0
GEK, GTK,
Horizontal areas
ICT and information services AgIT FIEK, AI platform GEK

6. Initiatives for UB cooperation
Education:
• Cooperative training program
• Company trainings, short cycle programmes
• Need analyses based on company requirements
• Thesis projects from companies
• Innopool Campus /student innovation projects
• Final exam. board with company representatives

7. Initiatives for UB cooperation
R&D&I:
• University-industry cooperation centre
• Intensive bilateral projects with companies
• Innovation ecosystem is being introduced
• Legal, IPR, technology transfer
• „One-window” contact with companies
• Special support for SME-s