University of Pannonia – Faculty of Business and Economics

The University of Pannonia is a significant institution of higher education in the Transdanubian region of Hungary. The programmes offered by the university, which has a considerable professional tradition and a great past, cover nearly all areas of sciences. This multidisciplinary university guarantees unique possibilities to obtain up-to-date knowledge in humanities, economics, engineering, pedagogy, social- and natural sciences, as well as extra-curricular professional and scientific activities. Tutors and researchers succeed in different project applications both in Hungary and in the European Union.

The Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Pannonia contributes to the functioning and improvement of the public and civil society with its high quality education, research and development.
As a student-centred business school, the FBE provides a caring environment and cultivates an open-minded approach and ethical behaviour. By offering research based, practice-oriented education, it prepares graduates who support and create positive change in their communities.

The Faculty of Business and Economics was the first ever faculty to receive the Hungarian Higher Education Quality Award for faculties in 2008.

In 2014 the Faculty reached an important milestone; it became a member of the AACSB International (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business).

The Faculty has a recognised and powerful Doctoral School, in which our excellent professors lead research groups in the field of economics, business and management.

Having recognised the importance of attracting more and more well-known, respected lecturers to the University of Pannonia, the Faculty of Business and Economics is aiming to build strong and long-lasting relationships between tutors by involving them in diverse research cooperation projects as well as inviting them to teach in our programmes. Also, realizing the necessity of making education more real-life based, the University has already taken steps in order to strengthen its relations to companies in its region.

Learning Innovation Ltd.

Learning Innovation Ltd., established in 2001 is engaged in lifelong learning, as well as innovative and employability development, content and organizational development. It provides registered and accredited adult education with vocational education and training, reaching over 23400 satisfied participants by more than 1500 trainings throughout Hungary. The company is specialised in health care and mental health trainings, CPD for pedagogues, flexible employment, remote work and work-life balance trainings. It developed trainings for a health care project to avoid burn-out and improve cooperation and communication skills in more than 40 hospitals, organized courses for 2000 public care practitioners to improve their performance in public health screening and prevention programs, and also joined a crisis management project as a leading trainer partner. The company also has expertise in Erasmus+ project and EU grant management, and also proposal planning and writing.

MENAT BV

MENAT BV is an enterprise specialized in developing model based information systems. Currently working on a model based career information system in partnership with the government and Microsoft/LinkedIn.

The field of expertise of MENAT BV:

  • Creating personal and organizational profiles out of limited and open sources or pre structured assessments in order to provide the customer with more information regarding personal, organizational targets.
  • Based on Human Resource algorithms and provided to client by API
  • Co-Creation as standard for cooperation, being part of a value adding chain of interventions. Lately this field of experience and knowledge is better known as Model Based Information System.

MENAT has been involved with various employability projects, and were participants in the Change2IT European project, re-allocating middle and high educated people towards jobs in the IT sector, which was nominated by the EU as best project 2003.

MENAT is a dedicated HR solution provider for individuals and businesses that require greater insight in their current and future situation. We excel in understanding the question in hand and match it with the right tools, skills and expertise that guarantees a sound solution! “Combining knowledge and expertise! Thats what Menat is passioned about!”

Menat was established in 2005 after we recognised a clear market demand for solutions that would differentiate companies in their HR strategy. The assessment market was in a developing stage, but no solutions really put the development of individuals or organisations in their own control!

We recognise that there is so much room for improvement, and an ever dier need for a model and approach that takes a different angle in finding strategic solutions for individuals and organisations, that a big difference can be made to the current HR methodologies as we know it! Passion for change but especially the urge to improve the lives of individuals and to create business opportunities for organisations is what drives us! We understand the value of the ‘sharing economy’ and apply this to our business approach. We surround ourselves by experts with the right knowledge, skills and capacity which can be applied to projects we are working on.

University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business

University of Ljubljana (Univerza v Ljubljani, UL) is is the oldest, largest, and internationally best-ranked university in Slovenia, being among the top 500 universities according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities Shanghai ranking (ARWU). The university was founded in 1919 and encompasses 23 faculties, 3 art academies, and 3 associated members.

STUDY – In terms of the number of students, UL ranks among the largest HEI in Europe with more than 40.000 students. In terms of the number of employees, UL ranks as medium-sized HEI and employs approximately 6.000 employees, with more than 3.500 academic staff. Study programmes at UL cover all ISCED areas in the first and second cycle study programmes and leads the way in some new developments in technology and research.

HR EXCELLENCE – From 2008 UL is committed to respecting the principles of the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for Recruitment of Researchers, which led to the award of the “HR Excellence in Research” in 2013.

RESEARCH ACTIVITY – UL is very active in national and international R&D and educational programmes, and creates almost half of the research results of Slovenia. In 2020 UL researchers worked in 274 research groups on 167 national research programmes, 416 national research projects with more than 4.300 registered researchers.

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH – UL is also very active in international research and education programmes. In the programming period 2007-2013, the UL altogether cooperated in 745 European projects, including 163 FP7 projects, which ranked UL in the first place in the EU-13 countries among the research organisations (source MIRRIS report). In 2020, UL was involved in 621 European projects. Up to now, the UL has been involved in 201 HORIZON2020 projects (including 4 ERC grants, 2 ERA-CHAIR, 1 Twinning project and 33 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions), 208 ERASMUS+ KA2, K3, Jean Monnet and Sport projects and 112 projects of the European territorial cooperation programme.

TTO – To protect the university intellectual property developed through the public financed research projects and to improve the technology transfer from the university to the industry, a central university Technology Transfer Office was established in 2007. University develops and accelerates the research also through the University Committee for R&D, and Committee for Innovation, which consists of representatives of most propulsive Faculties. University Incubator and Institute for Innovation and Development and the Slovenian Innovation Hub are three other units in which the University of Ljubljana supports innovation and development in different ways along with laboratories and other research units within Faculties. Membership in EUTOPIA, the Guild, CELSA, LERU-CE7, UNICA, Utrecht Network, European University Association (EUA), CEEPUS, Central European Exchange Program, CEI University network, SAR Scholars at Risk and Rector’s Conference Alpe Jadran.

School of Economics and Business (SEB LU) is the UL largest member and was founded in 1946. It offers 5.000 students international study environment with cross-cultural learning experiences and partnerships with institutions from around the world and is the only school in the wider region to hold the international accreditations EQUIS, AACSB and AMBA. It is Slovenia’s leading research institution in business and economics and collaborates on numerous projects, such as Erasmus+, Horizon, Interreg, Central Europe Programme and others. Researchers receive strong support in the form of research infrastructure, resources and access to international companies and networks. Annually, more than 400 incoming and 350 outgoing students participate in mobility, studying within 200 worldwide partnerships and around 120 incoming and outgoing faculty mobility. More than 500 international Ba, Ma and PhD students participate in Ljubljana Summer programmes.

Wroclaw University of Economics and Business

Wroclaw University of Economics and Business is ranked among the top economic schools of higher education in Poland, and an important centre of science and research. Its activities are aimed at maintaining and strengthening the position of the university on regional, national and international levels, improving competitive advantage, and shaping its image of a modern institution, open and friendly to its employees, students, and the environment.

Wroclaw University of Economics offers 15 fields of study at the bachelor level and 18 fields of study at the master’s level. The educational system at WUEB follows the requirements of the Bologna declaration. We apply the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) and issue Diploma Supplements. The exchange of academic staff and students is carried out under the Erasmus and others programmes.

WUEB actively cooperates with many entities – it has 200 Erasmus bilateral agreements and about 60 general cooperation agreements with foreign partners.

Qualified personnel of the Wroclaw University of Economics and Business has always been our greatest asset. WUEB employees receive numerous awards for didactic and scientific achievements, and have exercised responsible duties over a number of scientific associations and societies, both in Poland and abroad. The most prominent of our colleagues have been awarded honorary titles by local and foreign institutions of higher learning.