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AI Course Starts

ITA_Admin — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:28:04 +0000

In cooperation with Neumann János Nonprofit Public Benefit Ltd. and Neuron Solutions Ltd., we have created a practical training course for employees working in SMEs that introduces the basics of using artificial intelligence in the workplace. Registration for the first courses is now open!

(Courses run in Hungarian).
https://neum.hu/palyazati-adatlap/

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Our foundation supports the 55th András Román Summer Course on Monument Protection

ITA_Admin — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:01:18 +0000

Infota supports the organization of the 55th András Román Summer Course on Monument Protection in Budapest, between 6-10 July, 2025.

More information…

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Christmas and New Year wishes

ITA_Admin — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0000

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Stepping Up from Drifting – just published

ITA_Admin — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:45:02 +0000

Our volume summarizing the results of one of the important research projects of recent years has now been published in print, edited by Akadémiai Kiadó.

Edited by: György Boda

Akadémiai Kiadó, November 2024

ISBN: 978 963 664 051 4

Amid the pressure of the changing world economic order and the increasingly strong domestic socio-economic problems, analyses that unbiasedly and comprehensively reveal how we have exploited our opportunities so far and how we can choose a more productive path are of exceptional value.

The work of György Boda and his co-authors deserves special attention from three very important aspects, and the simultaneous validation of these aspects makes the book one of the most valuable situation-assessment readings of recent years. It acknowledges the results achieved since the change of regime, but points out why these have fallen short of expectations and possibilities. The focus of its analysis is on the real economy, the corporate sphere, but through this the effects and problems of social governance and regulation also come through. It shows what the main reasons are for the competitiveness deficiencies of companies, and how these necessarily lead to the failure of the expected macroeconomic and social convergence.

Another merit of the book is that it supports its message with very extensive statistical material, data, and calculations. It uses well-chosen databases, and handles these with demanding and mostly easy-to-follow calculation methods. It should be emphasized that while the authors use many controversial concepts in the book, they create clear situations by clearly providing their own interpretation and, where necessary, their thinking related to measurement.

A third important feature of the research is its historical and social embeddedness. It does not stop at exploring the direct causes of the phenomena, but points out the influential, often determining role of the ancient and recent past, and their interpretation. It uses statistical analysis and historical experience together to outline the possibilities for moving up from the current situation. As a conclusion, it defines the establishment of a political mechanism supporting the development and increasing the role of human capital as a fundamental condition for this move up.

Attila Chikán

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Best Exhibitor Award on Chinese – Hungarian AI Innivation Summit, 2024

ITA_Admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:35:53 +0000

Over 40 AI-focused tech exhibitors gathered at the AI Transformation Conference & Innovation Summit 2024, alongside leading Chinese and Hungarian companies, research groups, technology leaders, innovators, startup incubators, and investors from Hungary and Shenzhen. Together, they will explore collaborations and forge partnerships, driving groundbreaking projects and future business opportunities.

Our research proposal ’AI based somato mapping’ presented by Ferenc Kiss and Sándor Vincze won Best Exhibitor Award.
https://scitope.com/ait24/

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The Value of Cultural Tourism. How can we enjoy and remember our trip?

ITA_Admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 14:02:53 +0000

The presentation jointly prepared by dr. Lia Bassa and dr. Ferenc Kiss “The Value of Cultural Tourism. How can we enjoy and remember our trip?” was delivered at the UNESCO UNITWIN Conference in Leuven, now it is published in the proceedings:

https://ees.kuleuven.be/unitwin2019/proceedings

Download

https://ees.kuleuven.be/unitwin2019/proceedings

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Learn about World Heritage by eLearning

ITA_Admin — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 11:44:37 +0000

The UNESCO World Heritage Centre and 30 member universities of the „Culture, Tourism, Development” UNITWIN Network has reported the great success of their up-to-date, high level internationally prepared eLearning material complying with all UNESCO requirements. INFOTA has also contributed to the establishment of this excellent MOOC, Tourism Management at World Heritage Sites by a chapter Technical Systems Contributing to Cultural Heritage Monitoring written and presented by R&D Director Dr. Ferenc Kiss and Managing Director dr. Lia Bassa.

The launching took place in January 2018., it consists of 8 modules, or chapters, opening one of them per week, so the entire course is delivered in 8 weeks. (It can be learned by your own pace, of course, by about 3 hours work invested for each lesson), and is being restarted until the end of the year. The course can be accessed: https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/course-v1:Paris1+16008+session01/about

If you create an account on the site and register to the MOOC, you are ready to go! If you want to receive a certificate, the next and last certificates will be issued at the end of December.

The current version operates till December 2018. Then after a little pause, MOOC Volume 2 will appear from 1 April 2019. until the end of the next year extended by 6 new chapters: Marketing Tourism (Madrid, Barcelona), Site Management System (Leuven), Loving destinations to Death (MidSweden), Behaviour and satisfaction on World Heritage Sites (Salento), Historical Memories and Tourism on WH Sites (Externado), Tourism in WH Cities (Paris). Whereas parallelly, from June 2019, MOOC Volume 1 will also be available in a rebooted, corrected version until the end of 2019.

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Tourism and Cultural Landscapes: Towards a Sustainable Approach – Conference

ITA_Admin — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:05:35 +0000

This was the title and aim of the 4th International Conference of the UNITWIN Network that took place at the Budapest Metropolitan University and was implemented by the INFOTA Research Institute from 12 to 16 June, 2016. From 5 continents, more than 60 presentations, posters have reported about the most recent research achievements of a highly delicate and often discussed cultural heritage, the cultural landscapes – we also have 3 of them: Tokaj, Hortobágy and Fertőtáj.

The video message from the Deputy Director General of UNESCO, Francesco Bandarin is available on the following link.

More information about the conference

Conference website

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GeneZYs 2015 – Press release

ITA_Admin — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 17:48:33 +0000

On 28 January, 2016, in Budapest, a press conference was held on the outcomes of the youth sociological research in the Carpathian Basin called GeneZYs 2015. In the cooperation of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Minority Studies and the INFOTA Research Institute of the Foundation for Information Society, a representative youth sociological research of the Carpathian Basin was carried out by making questioning 2700 young people having Hungarian as their mother tongue, being 15-29 years old and living in Transylvania, Upper Hungary, Vojvodina and Subcarpathia. The first results of the research were reported by the Head of the HAS Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Minority Studies, Attila Papp Z.

More information about the research.

The video recorded on the press conference can be seen on this link.

The presentation delivered in the press conference can be found on this link.

The press release in its original language can be downloaded from here:

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The most recent volume of the Alma Mater series has been published

ITA_Admin — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 17:12:59 +0000

The most recent volume of the Alma Mater series has been published with the title “Tourism and ICT Aspects of Balkan Wellbeing – a Balkán jóllét turisztikai és IKT vonatkozásai”

The book provides us with a general overview on the touristic and ICT concerns of the Balkan wellbeing. The book can be ordered under the Publications point of the menu.

Since 2001, the Alma Mater series has been a primary Hungarian scientific publication forum for information and knowledge management, besides – because of the interrelation of scientific areas and by the opportunity of cross competences present in the workshops – having also rightly gained attention in international professional communities as a book series of scientific studies.

The present volume – in the course of our thematic publications – is a summary of the most recent regional well-being researches carried out in the widely interpreted Balkan area from the aspects of tourism and the info-communicational technologies.

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