Information Society Educating and Research Groups (ISERG)

The ISERG is an educating and research group, which from an organization point of view is assigned to a (topic-friend) department, establishment or group of the selected institute. The network started on its way in 2003, when with the support of the Information and Telecommunication Ministry, Information Society Educating and Research Group small in number was set up in ten or twelve, than in 2004 in a further twelve or fifteen universities and colleges. In the past years, cross-border groups too joined the network. Such groups in some institute organize themselves into a national network, their heads mutually develop the curriculum, take over experiences from each other, are in class in each other’s institutes and launch joint research programs.

Such a kind of horizontal co-operation is a path-breaker in the Hungarian high education and is considered unique even in international relationships. This program is co-ordinated by the Budapest University of Technology and Economics looking back on as many as a decade of past in information society education and research. As instructors, the ISERG staff members are employees of the given institute, meanwhile are partners in various research programs of the domestic information society. The ISERGs of rural universities and colleges play a role of information propagation and ’think tank’. Education of the discipline Information Society is organized in a network (subject concept, draft, textbook, trade publications, presentation aids, further education, change of experience). As instructors and researchers too, they are specialized to cultivate the issues relevant to the profile of the institute.

A head of group is present in an institute as the instructor of two disciplines in general.

  • Under the title ’Information Society’, he teaches a basic discipline, which is considered more or less uniform on a countryside scale, because its theme, textbook, presentation paper and renewing literature is provided by the network coordination. Using their experiences and innovations, teachers continuously develop this 'collective' discipline. Once a year, they meet at a workshop conference.
  •  In any part theme of the information society cultivated by them, they conduct special courses. Together with their local university / college work-mates and students, the groups conduct research programs of their own, thus collective knowledge are validly used for particular localities or move towards realization, representing a special research partially built on the head of group’s personality. In a good case, the group registered in a given institute will be a respected leading research workshop of a certain partial issue.

Any head of group shall be suitable to play the role of a regional think tank, adviser, what is more, a project manager. By a small effort and external support, the receptive institutes may establish educating / research workshops, where they

  • introduce an important basic discipline communicating a current and up-to-date knowledge
  • create new research and project potential, chances for resources, making new way for the students’ professional employment
  •  strengthen the regional embedding of the institute
  •  improve the attraction of the institute, send a message of keeping step and elasticity toward professional circles and to-be students too.
 

The present coordinator of the ISERG network is Árpád Rab.

 

List of present ISERGs

Budapest College of Management, Department of Society Learnings
Date of institution: 1st January 2003
Vig Zoltán, Head of ISERG
Availability – Postal address: 1114 Budapest, Villányi út 11-13. Telephone: 1/381-8125; Fax: 1/466-7410
Email: itok (at) educonsult (dot) hu Web address: http://avf-itok.educonsult.hu/

Budapest College of Management, Institute of Adult Education
Gáspár Mátyás, Head of ISERG
Work-mate: Eckert Bálint
Availability: Postal address: 1149 Budapest, Buzogány u. 12. Telephone: 06-1/469-6694; Fax: 06-1/469-6694
Email: gaspar (dot) matyas (at) axelero (dot) hu 

Budapest University of Economic Science and State Administration, eBusiness Research Center Füleki Dániel, Head of ISERG.
Availability – Postal address: 1093 Budapest, Fővám tér 13-15. Telephone: 06-1/456-6743; Fax: 06-1/456-6433
Email: daniel (dot) fuleki (at) bkae (dot) hu 

Budapest Technical College, Keleti Károly Faculty of Management
Date of institution: 24th November2003
László Gábor, Head of ISERG
Availability – Postal address: 1034 Budapest, Doberdó u. 6. Telephone: 061 4540075; Fax: 367-8668
Email: laszlo (dot) gabor (at) kgk (dot) bmf (dot) hu 

Debrecen University
Buda András, Head of ISERG
Availability – buda (at) delfin (dot) klte (dot) hu 

Eötvös Loránd University of Science, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, Institute of Education Science
Date of institution: 28th March 2006
Ollé János, Head of ISERG
Availability – 1075 Budapest, Kazinczy utca 23-27.
Telephone: 461-4500/3836, 3461; Fax: 461-4532
E-mail: olle (dot) janos (at) ppk (dot) elte (dot) hu 

Transilvanian Hungarian University of Science, Csíkszereda Faculty, Department of Social Science
Bíró A. Zoltán, Head of ISERG
Availability – office (at) kam-wac (dot) ro 

Eszterházy Károly College, institute of Media Information
Date of institution: 15th February 2003
Komenczi Bertalan, Head of ISERG. Work-mates: Kis-Tóth Lajos, Dr; Forgó Sándor, Dr
Availability: Postal address: 3300 Eger, Eszterházy tér 1. Telephone: 06-36/520-400/Ext. 2072; Fax: 06-36/520-443
Email: kbert (at) ektf (dot) hu 

Hungarian University of Art and Design
Date of institution: 8th November 2003
Csákvári József, Head of ISERG; Work-mates: Malinák Judit, Pásztor Erika Katalina
Availability – Postal address: 1121 Budapest, Zugligeti út 9-25. Telephone: 1/392-1180
Email: eondesign (at) axelero (dot) hu 

Kodolányi János College (Székesfehérvár), Faculty of Communication
Date of institution: 28th April 2004
Rétfalvi Györgyi, Head of ISERG
Availability – Postal address: 8000 Székesfehérvár, Szabadságharcos út 59. Telephone: 06-22/543-384; Fax: -
Email: rgyorgyi (at) mail (dot) kodolanyi (dot) hu 

Miskolc University Field Center of Society Research
Pankucsi Márta, Head of ISERG
Availability – Egyetemváros pmszo (at) uni-miskolc (dot) hu 

Nyíregyháza College, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics
Date of institution: 16th September 2003
Falucskai János, Head of ISERG; Work-mates: Kuki Ákos, Madácsi Mária, Schmercz István
Availability – Postal address: 4400 Nyíregyháza, Sóstói út 31/b. Telephone: 06-42/599-400/Ext. 2342; Fax: 06-42/402-485
Email: falu (at) zeus (dot) nyf (dot) hu 

East Hungary University (Sopron), Institute of Management Informatics
Date of institution: 1st July 2003
Bessenyei István, Head of ISERG; Work-mate: Tóth Zsolt
Availability – Postal address: 9400 Sopron, Bajcsy Zs. u. 4. Telephone: 06-99/518-628; Fax: 06-99/518-628
Email: itok (at) ktk (dot) nyme (dot) hu Web address: http://titanic.nyme.hu/~itok

Széchenyi István University (Győr), Faculty of Law and Management Science
Date of institution: 1st December 2002
Élő Gábor Dr, Associate Professor, Head of ISERG
Availability – Postal address: 9026 Győr, Egyetem tér 1. Telephone: 06-96/503-400; Fax: 06-96/613-614
Email: elo (at) sze (dot) hu

Szent István University, Faculty of Applied Art
Sinka Róbert, Head of ISERG
Availability – 5100 Jászberény, Rákóczi út 53.
E-mail: Sinka (dot) Robert (at) abk (dot) szie (dot) hu 

Veszprém University
Rohonyi András, Head of ISERG
Availability – Egyetem utca 10.
E-mail: rohonyia (at) almos (dot) vein (dot) hu