Total of 55.5 Billion HUF for Higher Education19 February 2010
Construction work is to commence in 13 higher educational institutions around the country.
The New Hungary Development Plan paves the way for the most significant development of higher education institutions operating in rural areas ever implemented over the past 20 years by launching infrastructural developments and investments amounting to a total of 55.5 billion HUF in value in 13 higher education institutions around the country. The last assistance contract underpinning the development of the University of Western Hungary has just been ceremoniously signed.
EU funding amounting to nearly 5 billion HUF has been made available for launching investments at the University of Western Hungary tying in with the "Green University" programme. Having been approved funding, major technological developments accompanied by info-communication developments can equally be launched at the university’s campuses in Győr, Szombathely, Mosonmagyaróvár, Bábolna and Székesfehérvár.
This development aims to contribute towards shaping and strengthening attitudes encouraging people to lead an environmentally conscious lifestyle, making local energy resources more efficient and using local natural resources available, with special regard to the ratio of use of renewable energy in the region’s energy management and disseminating the general approach of conscious cohabitation with the environment.
The long-term objective of this project is geared towards establishing conditions underpinning the institution’s long-term operation and stable sustainability by implementing infrastructural developments (developing spaces used by students, as well as for educational and research purposes and continuing the development of the IT background infrastructure). The university’s IT management and info-communication system will be standardised, R+D activities (central laboratories and accredited faculty labs) equally satisfying market demands will be strengthened, educational bases underpinning practical education and the background infrastructure required for implementing educational developments will be set up as an outcome of this project. The most relevant outcome of this project is that activities undertaken at present, as well as new activities planned will continue to function in a more cost-efficient manner and by using less energy.
Earlier on, 19 institutions were approved funding amounting to 13.7 billion HUF within the framework of the first National Development Plan implemented over the 2004-2006 period for establishing modern educational conditions, as an outcome of which infrastructural developments were implemented on an area of over 60,000 square metres at these institutions, hence improving educational and research conditions for some 110,000 students. Therefore, over the 2004-2008 period, nearly 70 billion HUF was made available for upgrading the infrastructure of higher education institutions with the help of EU funding.
List of applicants approved funding within the framework of the two calls