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Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsBudapest University of Technology and Economics

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Research and Development at Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Prof. György HorvaiVice Rector

October 16-17, 2003

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Research and technology institutions in Hungary

Number of R&D units

Year R&D institute and other research institute

R&D units of higher education

R&D units of enterprises

Total

1993 124 1078 178 1380

1994 112 1106 183 1401

1995 107 1109 226 1442

1996 121 1120 220 1461

1997 131 1302 246 1679

1998 132 1335 258 1725

1999 130 1363 394 1887

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R&D EXPENDITURE AS PERCENTAGE OF GDP

00,10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,9

1

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001

R&D EXPENDITURE (BILLION HUF)

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001

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R&D EXPENDITURE BY FINANCIAL SOURCES

Other domesticsources

Foreign orinternationalorganizations

Enterprises

State budget

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Co-operation of Hungarian Institutes with European and non-European partners

21

3

1

13

14

622

5Stockholm

Rome

Paris

London AmsterdamBerlin Warsaw

Vienna

BUDAPEST

7

5

3

1

3

4

2

2

1

1

11

OsloHelsinki

Brussels

Luxembourg

Dublin

Sofia

Bucharest

Athens

Madrid

Ljubjana

Copenhagen

Number of Partners(by country)

16 projects21 Hungarian participants

122 foreign partners22 countries

4

2Tel-Aviv

Geneve

390

151

345

482

119Stockholm

Rome

Paris

London AmsterdamWarsaw

BUDAPEST

25985

64

133

140

141

74

12

96

7755

OsloHelsinki

Brussels

Luxembourg

Dublin

Sofia

Bucharest

Athens

Madrid

Lisboa

Ljubjana

Copenhagen

Number of projects: 435540 Hungarian participants

4521 participants from 43 countries

100

41Tel-Aviv

Geneve

81

1

42

2641

Prague Bratislava

Reykjavik

220Wien

Tallin

Riga

Vilnius

20Larnaca 2 Sydney

10 Moscow

2Ottawa

15Washington

Nuuk

7

4Valletta

8Kijev

2Minsk

Kisinev

1Tokyo

1

626Berlin

1

10Ankara

Tibilis

164295

122

Pretoria1

1Rabat

1Tunisz

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Retained/failed proposals in EU 5

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

Life

IST

Growth

Env+Engy

INCO

SME

IHP

Euratom

Retained Failed

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Accepted EU 5-proposals in Hungary

Env+Engy16%

INCO3%

IHP23%

Euratom6%

Growth16%

IST20%

Life16%

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Research activity at BUTE

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Projects of National R&D Programme - 2002Faculty/Institute Department Title of Project Total cost

(thousand Ft)

1 Civil Engineering Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering

Flood control of Tisza valley in Karpatian Basin

341 852

2 BUTE-UNESCO Information Society and Trend Research Institute

Internet and Society

66 035

3 Chemical Engineering

Agricultural Chemical Technology

Advanced wastewater treatment

313 510

4 Centre of Information Technology

In the web of words

186 201

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Projects of National R&D Programme - 2002

Faculty/Institute Department Title of Project Total cost (thnd Ft)

5 Electrical Engineering and Informatics

Telecommunications and Telematics

Operations supervision system with artificial intelligence

177 600

6 Civil Engineering Structural Engineering

E-Design: Internet based knowledgebase system for complex design of steel, concrete engineering structures

310 550

7 Centre for Cognitive Science

Cognitive and neural plasticity

120 468

8 Chemical Engineering

Organic Chemistry

Environmet friendly utilization of by-product from agriculture and food industry

257 071

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Some of the major University Bilateral Agreements• Technical University of Vienna, Austria

• Technical University of Graz, Austria

• Technical University of Helsinki, Finland

• INSA Rennes, France

• Imperial College, London, UK

• TU Delft, The Netherlands

• University of Karlsruhe, Germany

• Technical University of München, Germany

• Nord-Rhein-Westfalen Technische Hochschule, Aachen, Germany

• Technical University of Košice, Slovakia

• Technical University of Cracow, Poland

• ETH Zürich, Switzerland

• NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

• Politechnico di Milano, Italy

• USA: e.g. Ohio State University, University of New Hampshire, Colorado State University, ect.

• Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbay, India

• University of Tokyo, Japan

• Waseda University, Japan

• Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

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Funded EU Projects at BUTE (5th FW Programme)

0

5

10

15

20

programs

Num

ber o

f pro

ject

s

IST

EESD

Grow th

QoL

IHP

Euratom

LIFE

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Retained EU 5 proposals at BUTE(breakdown by programs and years)

Year IST EESD Growth QoL IHP Euratom

LIFE Total

1999 3 2 1 1 1 - - 8

2000 2 1 3 - 1 - - 7

2001 11 3 8 1 3 1 1 28

2002 1 3 5 1 2 - - 12

Total 17 9 17 3 7 1 1 55

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Funded international and national projects

0

1000000

2000000

3000000

4000000

5000000

6000000

7000000

8000000

9000000

10000000

Funded EU andinternational

projects

Funded nationalprojects

EU

RO

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002

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Funded R&D National and International Projects(2002)

0

500000

1000000

1500000

2000000

2500000

Faculties

EU

RO

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