Corvinus University of Budapest
Corvinus University of Budapest has a wide portfolio of education and research activities ranging from business management to social sciences focusing on emerging issues such as data science, business informatics and ethics as well as sustainable development. It is admitting more than 11000 students, instructed by roughly 500 lecturers. The academic work is carried out by 11 institutes, supported by 3 competence centres.
Corvinus Science Shop, one of the competence centres, that promotes open science, the dialogue between science and society. It is a meeting point for the local community and the academic community to generate impactful co-creation with responsibility. It advocates community engaged research and learning by connecting and supporting the collaborations of community partners and lecturers-researchers-students for mutual learning. The science shop is embedded into the concepts and practices of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), service-learning, community/public engagement, open and citizen science, and provides practical instruments for combining the three missions – teaching, research, and service – of universities. The science shop was member of the EnRRICH Horizon 2020 and the CIRCLET Erasmus+ consortiums. In the 2022-2023 academic year 30+ lecturers and 700+ students responded to 60+ questions of 40+ community partners.
Réka Matolay
Réka Matolay, PhD is one of the founders and the Head of Corvinus Science Shop and an associate professor at Corvinus. She has been engaged in the pedagogy of service-learning for more than 15 years and supporting fellow lecturers in collaborations for positive social impact for 10 years. Her primary teaching and research fields are Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation; Community Engaged Research and Learning; Responsible Research and Innovation; Critical Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability. She is on professional juries evaluating CSR efforts by companies and initiatives of civil society organizations. She has been working on embedding community engagement, experiential and transformative learning for social inclusion and sustainability in higher education.
Márta Frigyik
Márta Frigyik works as partnership coordinator in the Corvinus Science Shop setting up course projects, student research and thesis work between local community partners and lecturers, researchers and students of Corvinus. With a background in Management and Organization development, Márta supports the community partners of the science shop to propose their questions and research needs and facilitates the cooperation for Community Engaged Research and Learning to happen.
Emese Nagy
Emese Nagy works as a project manager on the LOESS project. As an international project manager, she is responsible for direct EU-funded and Hungarian co-funded projects. She monitors the implementation of the project from contract signature to the preparation of the final report. Over her 7 years at Corvinus, she has developed experience in managing H2020 and other Horizon Europe projects as well as other foreign-funded projects.