| Pázmány Péter Catholic University | |
|---|---|
| Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem | |
| Latin: Universitas Catholica de Petro Pazmany Nominata | |
| Established | 1635. May 12. |
| Type | Private |
| Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic |
| Rector | Msgr. Prof. Dr. Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi[1] |
| Great Chancellor | Most Rev. Em. Card. Prof. Dr. Péter Erdő |
| Academic staff | 736 (2009)[2] |
| Students | 9469 (2009)[2] |
| Location | Budapest, Piliscsaba, Esztergom, Hungary |
| Campus | Suburban: 52 acre[3] |
| Affiliations | IRUN IFCU/FIUC FUCE CEECU IAU DRC REVACERN ELC EAIE |
| Website | www.ppke.hu |
Pázmány Péter Catholic University is a private university of the Catholic Church in Hungary, recognized by the State. Founded in 1635,[4] the PPCU is one of Hungary's oldest and most prestigious institutions of higher education. The Faculty of Theology was established by archbishop Péter Pázmány in Nagyszombat, the Kingdom of Hungary (today Trnava) in 1635. The University is located in three cities: The Rectors' Office, the Faculty of Theology, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Information Technology, and the Postgraduate Institute of Canon-Law are located in Budapest. The campus of the Vitéz János Faculty of Teaching is located in Esztergom, around the Esztergom Basilica. The campus of the Faculty of Humanities is in Piliscsaba, in the vicinity of Budapest. The university has several research groups and institutes in various fields. One of the most important international research-programmes of the university is the Syro-Hungarian Archeological Mission, which does the restoration of Margat's crusader fortress. Nearly 10.000 students attend the university, enrolled in several Bachelor, Master, and Ph.D. programmes. It has a wide range of internation cooperations, including the Erasmus programme and bilateral agreements. It is named in 2009 to be one of the most active members of the Erasmus programme[5]. It is a co-establisher of the Internation Research Universities Network, and has strong connections with Radboud University Nijmegen, Catholic University of Leuven, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Saint Louis University and University of Notre Dame.
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The university has five faculties and two institutes.
The Faculty of Humanities was established by the Hungarian Catholic Bishops' Conference on the 30. January 1992. (decree no. 46/1992.), with the permission no. Prot. N.223/91/9 (on the 30. January 1992.) of the Congregation of the Catholic Education of the Apostolic Holy See. The government of Hungary accepted it on the 25. May 1993. [4] It is located in the town of Piliscsaba. The campus was created from a Soviet barrack, on 220,000 m². As it is situated in a nature reserve, only pavilion-like buildings were allowed to be built which don't interfere with the landscape's harmony. Its buildings were designed by the group of Imre Makovecz and it has become an architectural landmark (see the pictures below). The campus has a train station (since 1995) and a bus stop (since 1996) on its own; it is accessible from Budapest centre in less than an hour. Most of its students commute on a daily basis, but it has dormitories for the other students at the venue and in the town.
The Faculty of Theology was established by Cardinal Péter Pázmány on 12. May 1635. It is working since then continuously. [4] It is located in Budapest.
The Faculty of Information Technology was established by the Hungarian Catholic Bishops' Conference on the 24. June 1998. with the permission no. 1246/1998. The government of Hungary accepted it on the 20. July 2001.[4] It's located in Budapest.
The Faculty of Law and Political Sciences was established on 3. April 1995. with the permission no. 503/1995. [4] It is located in Budapest.
The Vitéz János Teaching College was founded on 3. November 1842,[6] and integrated in the Pázmány Péter Catholic University as Vitéz János Faculty on 1. January 2008.[4] It is located in the city of Esztergom. The campus is located around the Esztergom Basilica. Its Practicing School is working since 31. August 1893.
The Postgraduate Institute of Canon Law is a separately working ecclesiastical Faculty. Founded by the Apostolic Holy See on the 30. November 1996. with the order no. N.975/96.[4] It is located in Budapest.
The Collegium Hungaricum (officially Collegium Hungaricum Lovaniense, the former Home Cardinal Mindszenty) is a house for Hungarian university students, researchers and teachers in the city of Leuven (25 km from Bruxelles), at the Blijde Inkomstraat 18. The owner of the building is the Hungarian Province of the Jesuit Order, but the maintainer is the Pázmány Péter Catholic University.[7]
The goal of the Hungarian Bionic Vision Center is to restore vision of visually impaired patients to the maximum extent and to improve the quality of their lives through using medical and technological aids. They run programmes to study promising medical and engineering technologies under active research.[8]
Homepage: lataskozpont.itk.ppke.hu
The RobotLab is to apply unique ideas inspired by Biology using Information Technologies. How is it possible to design better prothesis? Can neurobiology help to develop new remote control robots for helicopters? Can a biped be taught to walk in a similar way as we learned our balancing and moving patterns? What is the functional connection between visual and tactile sensing? These are some questions which are addressed by the Rotob Lab.[9]
Homepage: robotlab.itk.ppke.hu
The Jedlik Laboratories is a new Science-Education-Technology Center where the advantages of multidisciplinary work is emphasized in some important emerging fields of science and technology. In the beginning the key areas were Info-bionics and Sensor-computing, Tele-presence and Language Technologies. Nano-bio technology, VLSI IC design and some other areas have recently become important key areas as well. Its mission is to bridge the gap between forefront research, university education, and technology transfer, including competitive R&D projects, via the daily interactions between research professors and students forming a unit where innovation and learning are developing in concert, and in close cooperation with the support of a few leading research laboratories and high tech companies worldwide. The other specific aspects of this center are Live synergies of information technology and life sciences, in particular the neurosciences, genetics and immunology as well as certain aspects of the emerging field of nano-scale engineering and molecular bionics. The synergy is supported via a hierarchy of models, including functional, macro, micro and nano-scale (molecular level) models, as well as analogue, digital and analog array -and-logic models, and including human and artificial language technologies. Based on the sensor revolution and nano-scale technologies, the emerging fields of sensor-computing, telepresence, integrated communication and ad-hoc mobile networks, bio-compatible interfaces, as well as "smart" energy saving devices and integrated nano-micro systems, we are searching for new directions of applications, products and services to be developed.
The Jedlik Laboratories is organized within the Faculty of Information Technology in an active and institutional cooperation with the founding and later joined institutes. The founding Institutes: the Institutes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), namely the Computer and Automation Research Institute, the Research Institute for Experimental Medicine, the Neurobiology Research Unit at the Semmelweis University of Medicine of the HAS, the Research Institute of Technical Physics and Material Science, the Research Institute of Psychology, the Institute of Enzymology of the Biology Research Center of the HAS, the Richter Gedeon Co., the Ericsson Hungary Ltd., and a few SMEs. The cooperating international research laboratories are listed in the International relations section.[10]
Homepage: Jedlik Laboratories
It was established in 2006, at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences. It's main fields are organizing scientific conferences, publishing scientific papers, to spread the culture of competition.[11]
Homepage (Hungarian): www.versenyjog.com
The Syro-Hungarian Archeological Mission is a research programme of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University. Its main objective is to restore the Fortress of Margat, which is the largest Crusader Fortress of the Middle East, and to put under disscussion the era of the crusades in the Middle East. The head of the Mission is archeologist Balázs Major.[12] The huge, 5.2 acre fortress of Margat related to Hungary not only because of this expedition. In 1218 King Andrew II of Hungary visited the fortress protected by the Johannite Order and contributed an annual sum of 1000 silver marks for its upkeep.[12] According to Balázs Major, "the most sensational discovery must be the mural found in the chapel." This is the largest crusader mural unearthed in the Holy Land, and it is unique from an iconographical aspect, as well.[12]
The Avicenna Institute is a non-profit research center with the objectives of promoting scholarship in the field of Middle Eastern studies. In this framework, several senior and junior researchers and fellows are assuming and pursuing our aims. Among their projects are organizing public and international scientific workshops and conferences, publishing scientific monographs, conferences’ proceedings, granting scholarship for junior researches. We have solid connections with Hungarian and international research centres, such as Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Saint Joseph University, Beirut and Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale". The Institute was founded to fulfill threefold objectives: to conduct research for thorough understanding of Arabic, Persian and Turkish cultures, to advise decision-makers, media-actors and businessmen interested in Middle-East issues, to disseminate knowledge on current topics in on-going public debates to avoid misunderstandings in intercultural dialogue. The institute works on several projects: - study the factors of continuity and discontinuity in Islamic legacy in the perspective of understanding the current development in the Islamic world, mainly in philosophy, theology, political sciences and literature, classical and modern, - organizing public and international scientific workshops and conferences to disseminate knowledge, - publishing scientific monographs, conferences’ proceedings, - granting scholarship for junior researches in PhD or post-doctoral dissertations. [13]
Pázmány alumni number is about 26,000[41].
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