EU Funding Amounting to 2.4 Billion HUF Granted to Kecskemét College17 March 2010
The Kecskemét College will be carrying out a series of infrastructural developments in the field of technology and natural sciences up to November 2011 with the help of funding amounting to 2.44 billion HUF made available within the framework of the New Hungary Development Plan. A part of these developments, more specifically, the campus’ most recently developed educational unit, i.e., the welding workshop providing training in the most modern procedures used in the machinery and motor vehicle industry, has just been handed over.
This development project series offers the opportunity for the institution to implement the most modern infrastructural and technological investments available today, as an outcome of which the Kecskemét College will evolve into one of the leading knowledge bases in the region, as well as the country. This development programme, costing a total of 2.6 billion HUF to complete, among others includes building investments, the renewal of laboratories and workshops, as well as the full-scope development of the IT infrastructure.
Converting one of the barracks of the former Soviet military base into a research centre is the most expensive component – costing approximately 1 billion HUF to complete - of this project series to commence in summer 2010. Beyond accommodating the college’s R+D+I projects, this “House of Science” will also play a kind of technology and natural sciences information dissemination function in the future.
Students are now able to learn the most modern welding procedures used in the machinery and motor vehicle industry in a safe and high standard professional environment in the workshop that has just been renewed by investing 52 million HUF. Alongside providing training for college students, it will also be possible to organise higher education vocational training, company training and accredited welding courses in this workshop.
The new education and methodology centre of the Teacher’s Training Faculty opens in April and simultaneously serves as a methodology and exhibition centre and a “laboratory” for conducting research and experiments. A product design workshop, natural sciences seminar room, multi-functional presentation room, engineering workshop and digital curriculum editing workshop will be accommodated in this three-storey building. In addition, 7 laboratories and workshops, as well as equipment used will also be renewed. The renewal of the info-space and the server room of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Automation Technology, which was completed in December 2009, also constitutes a component of this project. The former gymnasium will be converted into info-space as an outcome of developments costing 106 million HUF to complete, hence forming an integral unit with the college’s technology and economics library.