Following the traditions of the previous years, Balaton Tourism Research Institute of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Pannonia- the hungarian professional conference will be held 13 November,2018. This conference focuses on presenting the results of the current primary research, including the actualities of Balaton as a living place, and Balaton as a tourist destination. Apart from that, conference participants could listen to a presentation about the tender of Veszprém 2023, Balaton Uplands as a World Heritage Site, Balaton festivals, Balaton aspects of adventure tourism, spa culture, local values, short food chain development efforts, the economic aspects of Balaton tourism and to the actualities of wine and gastronomy tourism.

More information available at:

http://www.gtk.uni-pannon.hu/batuki-hirek-esemenyek/

26 October, 2018

On October 12, 2018, the Department of Tourism of the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Pécs and the Tourism Geography Section of the Hungarian Geographical Society will organize National Tourism Conference entitled “AUTHENTIC TOURISM”. The venue of the conference is Bishopric of Pécs, Bishop’s Gallery Visitor Center.

More information.

10 October, 2018

1^st working section of current tender project takes place between 01-07.2017-29.06.2018. During this period all three members of the consortium have started professional research work- three strategic field and within them the research activity started in 19 subprojects.

In general, all of the 3 subprojects have done the exploration of and a processment of literature, creating questionnaires and analized datas as the first stages of research activites. Significant conference attendance, publication activities and involvement of the students in the research have also started.

Moreover, a scholarsystem was elaborated , which gives an opportunity to reach researchers, who work at the announced research field and young researchers, whom we can’t reach by the invitation system. This new approach gives bigger space and more opportunites for internationalization and networking, and for creating new connections. The tender invitation  will be launched at the project website and it will be send to the relevant universities.

A professional conference entitled Innovation, Integration and Mobility supplemented by a Jeremias Prassl (Oxford University) master course was organized between 28-29, September 2018 organized by BCE in Székesfehérvár.

During the organization of UP, colleagues took part in H2020 project development training on 13. and on 20. October. Between 06-03.05.2018. During the organization of UP a research camp was held in Csopak during the framework of the sub-project “Exploring and developing local values”. PE has begun to develop the Marketing Focus Lab, which is expected to be unveiled at the 2nd milestone.

Consortium members consult regularly, hold consortia meetings at three-monthly intervals, and follow-up of the project progresses take place through a quarterly reporting system.

23 August, 2018

The implementation of the program is provided by European Social Fund. Under Regulation (EU) No 1304/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, dispatches financed by ESZA resources should provide data about all participants, who can be individually identified (eg. Training, participants in labor market measures).

Handing out of data served by ESZA statements: ESZA statements for people over 16.

8 June, 2018

Between May 3-6, 2018, the active participants of ‘Local economy development’ course, who are students of the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Pannon, attended two local instructors and two major scholars in the research camp. Research camp took place under the guidence of Csizmadiáné dr. Viktória Czuppon, associate professor (University of Pannonia, FBE).

The topics studied were local values ​​(built and community-building values, community-building values), local products (food and non-food), local alternative energy use ideas (among entrepreneurs), opportunities to boost tourism. At the request of Csopak, great emphasis was placed on strengthening the relationship between the Municipality and the wineries, and exploring the possibilities for further cooperation.

9 May, 2018

On 13 and on 20 October 2017, 22 colleagues from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Pannon participated H2020 project development training within the project. Practice-oriented training provided an opportunity to enhance the intensity of our future international application activities and collaboration.

21 April, 2018

The BCE organized a professional conference  on the future of sustainable employment in Europe on 28-29 March 2018 in Székesfehérvár. The conference was also supplemented with a master course by Jeremias Prassl (Oxford University).

Annual Meeting of the Hexagonal Research Group will be organised by the Department of Tourism (University of Pécs, Faculty of Sciences, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences) in Villány between 20th-22nd September 2018. On the closing day of the international scientific conference a special workshop will be held . The topic of the conference is: ’Co-operative settlement, creative region’.

The program of the conference can be read here.

Dr. Beáta Fehérvölgyi, associate professor at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Pannonia, is the new dean of the Faculty from July 1, 2018 therefore the new professional leader of the project will be Dr. Judit Márta Sulyok, associate professor at the Department of Tourism at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Pannonia. We wish you both a lot of success and results!

Dr. Eszter Bogdány, lecturer at the Department of Organizational and Management at the University of Pannonia and Krisztina Kiglics 1^st year human resources BA student were participated in MakeLearn and TIIM Management, Knowledge and Learning 2018 International Conference entitiled conference in Napoli between 2018. 05. 15-18., which was organized by International School for Social and Business Studies. The award ceremony took place at the gala dinner. Dr. Eszter Bogdány és Krisztina Kiglics could take the prize “Best Paper Award” for the article: “Social innovation versus generations – New forms of cooperation between generations on the field of social innovation”, which was done with Dr. Ágnes Balogh , lecturer at the Department of Organizational and Management at the University of Pannonia and Norina Németh, Management and Leadership  MSC student.  The research was funded by the European Union, Hungary and European Social Fund co-financed by EFOP-3.6.2-16-2017-00017: „Sustainable, intelligent and inclusive regional and urban models ” called project.

Congratulations on your good results and wish you more successful work