Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem - BCE (Hungary)

URL: http://www.uni-corvinus.hu

The Department of Ecological and Sustainable Production Systems belongs to the Faculty of Horticultural Science of the CORVINUS University of Budapest (Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem – BCE). The Faculty of Horticulture was established in 1972.

The main principal of Department of Ecological and Sustainable Production Systems is education: to make horticultural engineer students familiar with the issues of the agricultural production and presenting knowledge of theoretical and experience level from the topics of plant production and animal husbandry. Important basic subject is soil management that enables horticultural students to get acquainted with the elements of soil tillage related to horticultural production. Ecological Farming is the topic of high priority in our Department, which shows the whole scale of agriculture to horticultural engineers.

Besides education, research activity is also important in the field of Ecological Farming. The Department issues MSc and PhD topics in ecological farming for four years. The main future plan is to establish a separate Organic Farming MSc education among the University structure.

BCE will be mainly involved in the creation, population and deployment of the ENOAT learning repository with content from the LdV projects that it has coordinated; will serve as a pilot user organization that will participate in the evaluation trials; and will coordinate the dissemination & exploitation activities (WP7 leader), also being responsible for the organization of the specialized Workshop that will close the project.

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