Budapest Business University

Institutional framework and financier of the project/research

European Commission, Directorate-General for Communication Networks, Content and Technology, Directorate Media Policies, Unit Audiovisual and Media Service Policy

Project reference number: LC-01678544

Project duration: 01.10.2021-30.09.2022

Grant received: 998.933 EUR, part of BBU: 28.283 EUR

International consortium, role of BBU, members of the BBU team

Paris-Lodron Universität Salzburg (Austria) - Coordinator

Ghent University (Belgium)

University of Leuven (Belgium)

The Endowment for Independent Journalism (Czech Republic)

Roskilde University (Denmark)

Tampere University (Finland)

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)

Vytautas Magnus University (Litvánia)

Budapest Business School (Hungary)

Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung / Hans Bredow Institute (Germany)

La Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)

University of Minho (Portugal)

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)

University of Gothenburg (Sweden)

University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

BBU core team:

Bajomi-Lázár Péter, Krasztev Péter

Objectives, rationale of the project/research

The overarching goal of the project is to understand the economic, social, institutional and policy This project is to design a central databank for information on media ownership in 15 member states of the European Union. These countries represent large and small states, as well as Western and Eastern countries, including countries with identified media ownership transparency risks.

Main results and outputs of the project/research

Four groups of indicators (structural, economic, performance, technical) will feed into the central database, which is scalable and accessible online. The theoretical approach is based on the structural ownership and on principle-agent theory. Methodological triangulation helps reducing the complexity of the project.

Institutional framework and financier of the project/research

European Commission, ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership, Higher education

Financed directly by the german national agency.

BBU participates as partner.

Project reference number: 2019-1-DE01-KA203-005057

Project duration: 01.09.2019 – 31.12.2022

Grant received: 390 281 EUR, ca. 128,8 M HUF, part of BBU: 32 760 EUR, ca 10,8 M HUF

International consortium, role of BBU

Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin, Berlin (Germany) – Coordinator

Budapesti Gazdasági Egyetem, Budapest (Hungary)

Università degli studi di Bari - Aldo Moro, Bari (Italy)

University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Leioa (Spain)

Cologne Business School, Köln, (Germany)

Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta (Finnország)

BBU core team

Dr. Szegedi Krisztina, Dr. Csillag Sára, Dr. Győri Zsuzsanna, Nagy Andrea

Objectives, rationale of the project/research

Sustainable Development and the responsibility of political, corporate and other actors for solving current social and environmental problems is one of the top priorities of international organizations such as the UN (UN Agenda 2030) as well as the European Union (EU Sustainable Development Strategy) and national and local governments. Higher Education institutions (HEI) play a crucial role in educating responsible future decision makers – in their role as managers, employees, consumers or investors.

The UNESCO took up this idea by promoting concepts of “Education for Sustainability”. At the same time the PRME initiative of the UN Global Compact formulates six principles that higher education institutions should follow in order to support the formation of responsible future managers. There is an increasing number of teaching approaches that are designed with the aim of increasing awareness for CSR, changing attitudes and influencing behaviour of individuals. However, tools for controlling the effectiveness of both the general approaches of higher education institutions as well as the specific teaching concepts are missing.

The objective of the 3-year EFFORT project is therefore to develop tools and guidelines that support higher education institutions to increase the effectiveness and quality of sustainability-, ethics- and/or CSR-related teaching (in the following referred to as CSR-/sustainability-related teaching). The expected results consist of a tool for controlling the effectiveness of teaching formats (IO1), a Handbook/Toolbox presenting a systematically structured overview on currently existing innovative CSR-/sustainability-related teaching concepts/courses (IO2), a self-evaluation tool allowing higher education institutions to benchmark themselves against other institutions (IO3), a number of new innovative teaching formats (IO4 - IO6) as well as a statistical analysis report (IO7) and a guideline (IO8) that shed light on which attributes of teaching concepts are most effective for educating responsible business leaders.

Different target groups are addressed by the project. Main targets are higher education institutions (governing and administrative bodies, lecturers, technicians etc.) and their stakeholders (first and foremost the students, but also companies, regional/local/national governments, NGOs etc.). These target groups are addressed by facilitating high quality CSR-/sustainability-related education (HEI and other providers of vocational training and teaching) and increasing the awareness for sustainability challenges and the ways how to address them.

The six partners are unified by the idea that CSR-/sustainability-related education is an important challenge of the future and need to be integrated holistically into policies and teaching of higher education institutions. They all have been active in different areas of sustainability education and partly have been working together in projects beforehand. Each partner bears a specific responsibility within the project, but is also co-responsible for the work packages and intellectual outputs generated by the other partners. The two associated partners (Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative and the Centre for Responsible Citizenship and Sustainability - Murdoch University) contribute with expert knowledge and for dissemination of the results.

Regular project meetings should ensure the progress of the project and the contribution of each partner to the different intellectual outputs. Multiplier events serve as forums to communicate project results and to foster the further dissemination of knowledge. A number of other dissemination activities and follow-up activities ensure the long-term impact and sustainability of the project.

Main results and outputs of the project/research

• IO1: Controlling Tool
• IO2: Handbook/Toolbox
• IO3: Self-Evaluation Tool
• IO4: Innovative Teaching Format 1
• IO5: Innovative Teaching Format 2
• IO6: Innovative Teaching Format 3
• IO7: Statistical Analysis Report
• IO8: Guideline

Website of the project: https://effortcourse.uni-bge.hu/

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.

The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsi­ble for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Institutional framework and financier of the project/research

European Commission, ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership, Higher education

Financed directly by the german national agency.

BBU participates as partner in the project.

Project reference number: 2018-1-DE01-KA203-004222

Project duration: 01.09.2018 – 31.12.2021

Grant received: 439 894 EUR, ca. 140.77 M HUF, part of BBU: 49 016 EUR, ca 15.69 M HUF

International consortium, role of BBU

Duale Hochschule Baden Württemberg Karlsruhe, Németország – Coordinator

Universite de Strasbourg, Franciaország

Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Franciaország

Budapesti Gazdasági Egyetem, Magyarország

Uniwersytet Lodzki, Lengyelország

Politechnika Lodzka, Lengyelország

Instituto Universitário da Maia, ISMAI, Portugália

Instituto Politecnico do Porto, Portugália

Kaakkois-Suomen Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy, Finnország

BBU core team

Dr. Kolláth Katalin, Dr. Keresztes Éva Réka, Dr. habil Bajomi-Lázár Péter

Objectives, rationale of the project/research

The target group involved in the project are the students of the participating institutions of higher education. The aim is to help these students identify the similarities and appreciate the differences in national and European identities, and to observe the behaviours in which these identities are manifest in the countries of the participating institutions. As a result of the research carried out, students learn to differentiate between objective observation and subjective opinions, and they also learn to tell the difference between objective data and stereotypes. As part of the project, students will get to know the culture of the countries of the participating institutions and come to understand the significance of the observed behaviours in the development of the European identities in these countries (Germany, France, Hungary, Portugal, Poland and Finland).

Students will conduct research in the course of which they will familiarise themselves with various research methods and tools. Their work will be supervised by tutors of the partner institutions. The research results will be published on open source platforms where the results can be accessed by the public at large.

Planned activities

The students will learn to work with selected tools used in social psychology and also how to process and interpret the data collected. In the first part of the project, tutors from the participating institutions will undergo training in using these tools. The tutors will then train the students and supervise their work when the mixed nationality groups collect the data in various locations. The groups will also work on describing and interpreting the data collected.  

The tool used will be the SYMLOG method (Systematic 3D observation of groups) (Bales & Cohen, 1982). In order to compare and describe the identities students will collect self-concept data since in the literature ‘identity’ and ‘self-concept’ are the same. The data will be processed in a self-concept table (Orlik, 2006). 

The students (5 or 7 per partner institution) taking part in the project spend one week in one of the partner institutions. Their task is to collect data in everyday and business situations, process, describe and interpret it. The aim is for them to pinpoint the similarities and differences in people’s behaviour when handling conflicts or making decisions.

Main results and outputs of the project/research

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.

The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsi­ble for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

More information is available only in Hungarian.

Institutional framework and financier of the project/research

European Commission, Horizon2020 framework programme

BBU participated as partner in the project.

Project reference number: 727072

Project duration: 01.01.2017 - 31.12.2019

Grant received: 4 910 537,5 EUR, kb. 1,52 Billion HUF, ebből a BGE része: 16 000 EUR, kb. 4,96 Million HUF

International consortium, role of BBU

University of Oxford, Egyesült Királyság - Coordinator

Budapesti Gazdasági Egyetem, Budapest, Magyarország

Stichting European Journalism Centre, Hollandia

Uppsala Universitet, Svédország

Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spanyolország

International Centre for Migration Policy Development, Ausztria

Universitat Wien, Ausztria

Universiteit Maastricht, Hollandia

TNS Opinion SA, Belgium

Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Németország

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spanyolország

Goeteborgs Universitet, Svédország

Fondation Migration Policy Institute Europe, Belgium

BBU core team

Dr. habil Bajomi-Lázár Péter

Objectives, rationale of the project/research

The overarching goal of the project is to understand the economic, social, institutional and policy factors that have shaped the impacts of free movement and public debates about it. It aims to help European policymakers develop policy responses that inspire public trust, ensure the fairness and sustainability of free movement, and maintain inclusive policies that reduce inequalities across the continent.

First, the project will generate a deeper understanding of the nature and impacts of intra-EU mobility, focusing in particular on how countries’ institutional and policy environments shape the impacts of free movement on individuals, households, labour markets, public services and public finances. Second, it will assess how political and media narratives about intra-EU mobility are formed, focusing on the role of traditional and social media, political discourse, and influential participants in public debates. Third, it will assess the relationship between real and perceived impacts, examining the factors that drive realities and misperceptions about free movement and why these debates have unfolded in different ways across the EU.

A consortium of researchers with deep understanding of policies and institutions across Europe will implement a multidisciplinary research strategy. Cutting-edge research methods will range from content analysis based on machine-learning techniques to multi-wave panel and survey experiments to theoretical and empirical analysis of the role of institutions and norms in shaping free movement and public debates about it. The project combines qualitative and quantitative approaches, carefully integrating work packages to allow data and results to flow seamlessly between them. Policy specialists will develop concrete options for reforms.

An experienced communications team will work with consortium members to develop accessible resources, ensuring wide reach to policymakers, media practitioners and influential stakeholders across Europe.

Main results and outputs of the project/research

Key audience

Policy (at EU , national, regional and local levels, covering many different portfolios)

• Build an evidence base on the nature and economic implications of EU mobility(WPs 2-6). Improve opportunities to assess and revise policies relating to immigration, welfare and labour-markets.
• Analyse the content and drivers of public and media debates on EU mobility and immigration of third country nationals (WPs 7-11). Facilitate improved engagement in these debates and better opportunities to address public concerns
• Assess policy options to harness the benefits and mitigate the disadvantages of EU mobility and to address concerns about fairness through cost-sharing mechanisms (WP1, WP12). Generate new ideas to improve the sustainability of free movement.

Media (print, broadcast, online)

• Develop a toolbox of materials to provide analysis of the key aspects of EU mobility, with an emphasis on socio-economic and welfare issues (WP1). Facilitate professional development for journalists reporting on EU mobility and immigration of third-country nationals
• Analyse the content and drivers of public and media debates on EU mobility and immigration of third country nationals (WPs 7-11). Drive improved standards in the reporting through opportunities for reflection and self-regulation within the media industry.

Stakeholders (e.g. social partners, civil society, digital activists, other opinion formers)

• Build an evidence base on the nature and economic implications of EU mobility (WPs 2-6). Empower organisations and activists to participate more effectively in policy debates.
• Develop a toolbox of materials to provide analysis of the key aspects of EU mobility, with an emphasis on socio-economic and welfare issues (WP1). Empower organisations and activists to participate more effectively in media debates.
• Analyse the content and drivers of public and media debates on EU mobility and immigration of third country nationals (WPs 7-11). Empower organisations and activists to scrutinise media narratives and hold media and policymakers to account.

Academia (across the social sciences and linguistics)

• Fill empirical gaps in the understanding of EU mobility and generate new databases that integrate key information sources. Facilitate future research by improving the knowledge base and making data sources more accessible.
• Develop theoretical frameworks and methodologies for systematic and nuanced descriptions of impacts, perceptions and the role of institutions. Provide models for cross-disciplinary collaboration on complex policy questions; encourage greater attention to role of institutions in future mobility research

Website of the project: https://www.reminder-project.eu/

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 727072.

Institutional framework and financier of the project/research

European Commission, Leonardo da Vinci Programme, Reference Materials Subprogramme

Financed directly by the EACEA.

BBU participated as coordinator in the project.

Project reference number: 2003-3448/001-001-LE2-51OREF

Project duration: 01.10.2003 – 30.09.2006

Grant received: 554 508 EUR, ca. 166,4M HUF (total budget: 611 563 EUR, ca. 183,5M HUF), part of BBU: 77 822 EUR, ca. 23,3M HUF (totally: 86 469 EUR, ca. 25,9M HUF)

International consortium, role of BBU

Budapest Business School, Budapest, Hungary – Coordinator

EHSAL - Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

University of Technology, Business and Design, Wismar, Geermany

UNED - Spanish National Distance University, Madrid, Spain

Université Paris Ouest – Défense, Párizs, France

University of Bedfordshire, Luton, United Kingdom

Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

Confederation of Hungarian Employers and Industrialists, Budapest, Hungary

Institute of Labour and Social Studies, Warsaw, Poland

Institute for Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

BBU core team

Dr. Roóz József, Sándorné Dr. Kriszt Éva, Prof. Dr. Makó Csaba, Csizmadia Péter, Illéssy Miklós, Tamási Péter

Objectives, rationale of the project/research

The Budapest Business School is a leading institution in the field of initial and continuing education of entrepreneurship. BBU delivers joint diploma giving courses with several EU higher education institution for adult entrepreneurs.

BBU has also a group of young research men working in the field of the SMEs in co-operation with outstanding SME experts of the Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

With this structural background BBU initiated the above mentioned Leonardo project in the special strand: “European Reference Material” with the main objectives:

• To produce a deep comparative study on the SME systems of eight European countries
• To produce eLearning curricula on the national analyses as well as on the international comparative study
• To make these curricula available for a large European SME target group
• To facilitate the cross country mobility of European SMEs

Main results and outputs of the project/research

• National reports on SMES (Hungary, Belgium, France, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, Poland, Slovakia)
• Case studies from the participating countries
• Comparative report on SMEs
• National Web-based (E-learning) curricula based on the national reports (Hungary, Belgium, France, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, Poland, Slovakia)
• Comparative Web-based (E-learning) curriculum – based on the Comparative report

Institutional framework and financier of the project/research

Financed directly by Visegrad Fund

Project reference number: 22210051

Project duration: 20/05/2022–20/10/2022

Grant received: 36 527,00 EUR, ca. 14,6 M HUF, part of BBU: 5750 EUR, ca. 2.3 M HUF

International consortium, role of BBU, members of the BBU team

· Moravian Business College Olomouc

· University of Economics in Katowice, Faculty of Economics

· The University of Economics in Bratislava, Faculty of Business Management

· Maccabi Research and Innovation Centre

BBU core team:

Judit Sági PhD. project leader, Miklós Fellegi PhD., Anita Kolnhofer-Derecskei PhD., Csaba Gárdos, László Zoltán Kucséber PhD.

Objectives, rationale of the project/research

A pressure to provide quality health care with limited resources, population aging, higher patient expectations and a lack of qualified staff call for innovations in health care. Healthcare innovations are urgent in COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of the project is creating the platform for identification of current state and the problems in health care, using of selected modern technologies including mechanisms for start-ups establishing in health care of V4 countries. The use of the best practice from Israel is essential for solving the project. The area for joint projects will be proposed.

Main results and outputs of the project/research

Main results:

For the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, innovations in health care represent the basic presumption for providing available and high-quality health care for aging population with increasing number of chronic diseases. It turns out that the use of the best practice from successful countries implementing healthcare innovations is essential for solving these problems, which means setting up an effective system of implementation of healthcare technologies. Israel considered as a country of innovation ecosystem and start-ups in health care, is opened to cooperation with V4 countries. The cooperation between Israel and V4 countries will be ensured by an International Platform for Healthcare Innovations. The platform will determine synergic innovations leading to an improvement of the current situation on the basis of the key economic, management and financial challenges in health care.

Outputs:

·    Series of 5 online workshops

·      Conference: Innovations in Health Care

·      Expert report on innovations in health care from the Czech Republic

·      Expert report on innovations in health care from Hungary

·      Expert report on innovations in health care from Slovakia

·      Expert report on innovations in health care from Poland

·      E-brochure

Others

This project has been funded with support from Visegrad Fund.

Institutional framework and financier of the project/research

Financed directly by Visegrad+ Grants

Project reference number: 22320140

Project duration: 01/10/2023–31/03/2025

Grant received: 49,382.00 EUR, ca. 19 M HUF, part of BBU:  6,340.00.EUR, ca. 2,4 M HUF

International consortium, role of BBU, members of the BBU team

Ambis University (coordinator)

Budapest Business University

Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan

Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica

"Fan S. Noli", University of Korça

BBU core team:

Dr. Kiss Kornélia, Dr. Petykó Csilla, Schultz Éva, Hegedüs Sára, Dr. Pál Ágnes

Objectives, rationale of the project/research

The main objective of the project is to explore the potential of data collection in cultural tourism destinations.

Cultural tourism is one of the most important tourism products in Hungary and in the participating countries, yet we do not have a sufficiently wide range of data to study it. The project could therefore provide very useful results for the regions, especially as it also focuses on sustainability aspects.

The project will carry out the research in cooperation with stakeholders operating tourist attractions, municipalities and other economic and civil actors, with the aim of ensuring that the results can be directly used by stakeholders in regional development. As the project aims to collect and monitor tourism and sustainability data, the knowledge will be directly applicable to the teaching of tourism undergraduate students.

It is important that the study of the possibilities of data collection in tourism destinations is carried out in partnership with economic operators and that students are involved, so that they can encounter a real life and a real problem in the context of their study field and thus can benefit from the project.

Main results and outputs of the project/research

Main results: Within each phase of the project, the aim is to collect international good practices (e.g. specific data collection systems), to identify the needs and data collection "gaps" of the participating countries/destinations in relation to cultural tourism. A further objective is to outline and test the possibilities for empirical data collection related to cultural tourism, to work with stakeholders such as attraction operators, local tourism management organisations and to make recommendations to data collection institutions based on the results.

Outputs:

1.     Needs analysis

2.      Good practices collection

3.     Development of data set, questionnaire and data collection guidelines

4.     Guidelines testing in the respective destinations

5.     Workshop on evaluation of the applied data collection guidelines, data analysis

Institutional framework and financier of the project/research

Project funder: Visegrad Fund grant scheme project

The main goal of the project: Digitization of pilgrimage sites in the V4 region

Project duration: 18 Months (01.11.2023 – 31.03.2025)

Grant received: 9,500 euro (website creation, fees for cooperating researchers, fees for project management)

Partner universities in this Project: The main applicant of the project is our UCM Institute of Management in Trnava (Slovakia). Other members of the consortium are: Department of Tourism MUP Prague (Czech Rep.), Czestochowa University of Technology (Poland) and Budapest Business university (Hungary)

BBU team coordinated by:

Dr. Harshavardhan Reddy Kummitha

Objectives, rationale of the project/research

Study on pilgrimage tourism in the V4 country (CZ, HU, PL, SK).

Pilgrimage tourism in our countries represents a rich cultural and spiritual heritage. Let's keep in mind that this text is intended for everyone who is looking for information or inspiration about travel - both religious tourists and secular tourists. In other words, to everyone who is looking for information on the web about the culture and cultural attractions of our countries, about unique places, about wandering and about traveling as such in our countries. The target group is therefore domestic visitors as well as foreigners, religious tourists as well as secular tourists.

Main results and outputs of the project/research

Main results:

The expected results of the project  is to create the content of the website:

- elaboration and study: pilgrimages in V4 countries (each partner for his country) - history and present in general

- identify the most important 10 pilgrimage sites in the country.

- provide information about each place of pilgrimage: history, photos, link to the official website of the place of pilgrimage, information on transport availability, accommodation for pilgrims (if available), museum (if exist), tourist attractions within a radius of 30 km

- After complection of website each partner university will hold a webinar in his country for the purpose

a) inform various tourism-oriented organizations about our digital map: administrators of pilgrimage sites, management organizations of destination management, the media, etc.

b) our digital map will be freely available, tourist organizations can link to their websites

c) brainstorming: collecting feedback - the goal will be to find out what information we could use to expand this digital map in the future.

Outputs:

creation of a digital map (web page with a mobile interface) - the most important pilgrimage sites in the V4 countries (approx. 10 pilgrimage sites in each country)

Others

Website: Based on Researcher gathered information Website we will developed.  (under development)

This project has been funded by Visegrad Fund grant scheme