"HUB Collaborations" Innovation Days in Pécs

The Institute of Transdisciplinary Discoveries is a unit of the University of Pécs, founded in February 2018. (old.itdweb.hu)

Its vision and mission are to become a leading European institution, which promotes the creation of new disciplines and methodological approaches, crossing and passing beyond the boundaries of existing disciplines, and to provide a space that encourages, conveys, and enables crossings between disciplines and other areas.

Its mission is also to develop and maintain effective communication between science, business and society.

Fundamental values ​​of the institute: intellectual openness and commitment, flexible thinking, integrity and social responsibility, effective communication, creativity and innovation, co-operation.

Three main pillars of its activity:

• Education
• Research
• Outreach

UP’s newly formed institute is the official partner of the EIT Health Network. The only EIT Health Hub in Hungary that covers the entire country excluding Budapest.

Information on EIT Health:

https://eit.europa.eu/eit-community/eit-health

RIS Hub Info:

https://eit.europa.eu/newsroom/seven-new-eit-ris-hubs-help-eit-health-build-innovation-ecosystems

The Local Government is the successful implementer of the “Doctoral Workshop” event for many years, during which it addresses the participants in the foreign and domestic doctoral programs. Each year, by investigating topic – most recently the “Skill Development in the Higher Education and the Labor Market – Present and the Future of Doctoral Training”, they focus on the development of professional relationships across disciplines in the field of shared thinking and research processes.

Their goal is to contribute to the successful foundation of the ideas of talented students at the beginning of their doctoral program through the knowledge of innovation processes and knowledge utilization by the means of the conference. Their mission is to create a forum where doctoral and undergraduate students working in different fields of science, building on their own and each other’s ideas, will be able to build new, marketable, innovative business concepts and demonstrate them efficiently.

The Research and Technology Transfer Center of the University of Pécs has been available for researchers, students and business partners since 2005. The center is responsible for managing the university’s intellectual property as a national asset and managing technology transfer processes. To achieve this goal, staff members have been involved in the identification, protection and utilization of nearly 100 intellectual products in the past few years and are constantly striving to provide valuable services to both their internal and external customers.

Their mission is to turn UP’s knowledge base efficiently into innovation processes, thus leveraging research and development results into real-value innovations for the economy and society. With this conference and the Young Spirit program jointly managed with the chamber, they would like to increase the economic embeddedness of the UP in order to promote the development of the South Transdanubian region.

The UP Simonyi Center for Business and Economic Development has been helping to transform the creative ideas of students and researchers into business concepts for 5 years, which can answer even regional economic and social problems. Simonyi’s BEDC programs focus on creative and experiential learning as a development methodology recognized internationally. The Center seeks to open up innovation and entrepreneurship to all UP citizens.

http://simonyiugfk.ktk.pte.hu/

In order to achieve this, NetMIB, a global incubation platform has been created, a virtual space for users where all the tools are provided for project development and international relations.

http://netmib.pte.hu/

In addition, the International Video Pitch Competition is held every spring, a video pitch competition that allows ideas to be made in an international environment. The first and second runners receive a money prize they can spend on their ideas, and the participants receive feedback from the professionally recognized jury members about the project.

http://ivpitch.pte.hu/

At the initiative of five commercial and industrial chambers, the “Young Spirit” program was launched in February 2018, adjoined by university associates at the chambers’ headquarters. The aim of the program is to connect young entrepreneurs with innovative ideas, but with limited knowledge or capacity, to young and ambitious researchers. In addition to the collection of project proposals, the chamber and university colleagues are working to match the needs and bids received and to assist the potential co-operation partners by introducing them to each other in order to help them materialize the ideas. For the first time, the city of Pécs took the co-ordination.

The lectures of the conference “Young Spirit” are aimed at presenting the results achieved so far and exploring new opportunities for cooperation.

https://www.pbkik.hu/hu/cimkek/young-spirit

Collaborating Chamber Partners

• Bács-Kiskun Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• Chamber of Commerce and Industry Csongrád County
• Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Győr-Moson-Sopron County
• Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Hajdú-Bihar County
• Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Pécs-Baranya