The Lámfalussy Research Center was established in 2021 as an independent department to coordinate research activities at the Faculty.
In line with the University’s fundamental vision, the mission of the Research Center is to extend and deepen research activities in the spirit of sustainability and green university. The University of Sopron and the Alexandre Lámfalussy Faculty of Economics want to be recognized as a university of excellence in sustainability. It is necessary to support and strengthen research activities along the lines of the expected specialization by exploring new possibilities and solutions and by shaping attitudes. Additionally, it is important to encourage the implementation of practical research, research responding to market needs, targeted research, as well as applied research in addition to purely basic research. The Lámfalussy Research Center aims to increase the intellectual presence of the Faculty in national and international science scenes by providing value-added and competitive knowledge, along with offering science management services to its colleagues.
The Research Center actively cooperates with the Institutes and participates in the activities of the Doctoral School and the Scientific Students’ Council, although the scientific tasks are shared between the different departments.
The focus of the Center’s activities:
- defining the Faculty’s research strategy and setting long-term research directions;
- encouraging participation in research and development applications;
- increasing internal and external scientific cooperation: exploring the links between the Institutes and the Faculties, between national and international research goals while aligning them with individual research objectives;
- registering and coordinating the scientific activities of teaching and research colleagues and PhD students to maximize synergy effects, and encourage co-authored publications;
- improving the visibility and recognition of teaching and research colleagues and PhD students, and helping to increase publication in internationally refereed journals;
- developing research methodological skills, integrating them into talent management, and organizing short research methodology courses for students and colleagues;
- enhancing market cooperation: encouraging practical research while supporting the production of scientific knowledge, and supporting the work of experts;
- setting up cooperation agreements and research teams with national universities and research centers;
- joining international research networks;
- supporting the Faculty’s third mission activities.
