PHOTOS: Popular Budapest university receives futuristic new campus
Photo: MTI/Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem
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Budapest’s Corvinus University is one of Hungary’s most popular among local and foreign students. Now the institution is to receive a new, modern campus in the 11th district at the crossroads of the Ménesi and Mányoki Avenues. Apart from buildings serving educational purposes, innovation and social spaces are to be constructed. Moreover, Corvinus University will receive a dormitory with 180 beds and an 11-thousand-square-metre park. According to the plans, the new campus will be ready by 2023 autumn.
Márton Barta, the strategic director of the university, told the press on 9 December that there was a large-scale digital, infrastructural and educational development at the university. They not only erect new buildings but also modernise the Neptune system used for education administration, pestbuda.hu wrote.
“Corvinus constantly strives to preserve its leading role in Hungarian higher education. Therefore, it started a comprehensive digital, infrastructural and educational modernisation”, Mr Barta said. At the press conference last week, they also presented some visuals of the new campus.
The strategic director highlighted that 600-700 students would be able to work at the new campus. Its educational and social spaces will serve creative cooperations, he added.
They would like to create a multifunctional centre for education, innovation and social interactions. There will be sports facilities, social spaces, an 11-square-metre park, and a dormitory with 180 beds. Furthermore, the buildings will meet the latest sustainability and energy efficiency criteria, he added.
The university plans to start a device-lending programme on the new campus to help socially disadvantaged students by providing a tablet, a wireless headset or a webcam.
Construction started last autumn and the cost reaches 16 billion HUF (EUR 38.4 million). The government chipped in with HUF 12 billion, and HUF 650 million comes from EU funds. The university’s Maecenas Universitatis Corvini Foundation provided the remaining billions.
Photo: MTI/Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem
Photo: MTI/Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem
Mr Barta recalled that from 1 July 2019, the Corvinus University of Budapest had been operated by Maecenas Universitatis Corvini Foundation. He said the current developments were possible because of that. He added that thanks to the new operation form, the university’s research efficiency tripled, the number of foreign lecturers grew significantly, they carried out a considerable wage increase and would launch two English language programmes next autumn.
“We aim to make Budapest’s Corvinus University Central Europe’s best economic and social studies university”, the strategic director highlighted.
Photo: MTI/Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem
Péter Major, the leader of the university’s student service unit, said they would like to be pioneers in introducing online enrollment in Hungary. Furthermore, they will advance the institution’s Neptune educational system enabling students and lecturers to concentrate solely on the teaching-learning process.
