Artificial intelligence applications, network research and the storage, management, processing and application of exponentially growing large data sets are all among the great challenges of our time.
The past 15 years have seen advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies on such a scale that many consider it the beginning of a new industrial revolution. Several countries, including Hungary, have declared AI-related research and development to be of national strategic importance. In recent decades, data science and network research, which respond to the challenges related to the ever-increasing amount of data, have also become the focus of attention. These three topics are closely related and together they raise the concept of digital society to a new level.
The research areas of material structure, energy, space exploration, and nanotechnology
For centuries, one of the most important goals of scientific research has been to learn about the structure, properties, behavior and usability of the matter that surrounds us. This has always been supplemented by the question of where to get the energy from.
Research areas of health-related drug research, molecular biology, microbiology, neurobiology and psychology
Among the UN’s global sustainable development goals accepted and adopted by all member countries is the improvement of human health and well-being. Referring to the position of the European Commission, the OECD emphasizes that these goals can only be achieved with significant research, development and innovation activities. Global goals and trends, domestic needs and political priorities all make health one of the central topics of innovation, research and development, scientific training, consulting and knowledge dissemination based on domestic scientific activity.
Research areas of the environment, climate change, ecology, agriculture and food safety
The change in the environment poses significant challenges to humanity, and most of the problems do not know national borders. It is in the common interest of humanity to understand current and future processes, to make forecasts and to solve problems. Research related to the climate and sustainable environment is a fundamental part of the EU’s research, development and innovation policy. The first pillar of our country’s effective agricultural development is targeted research for food and supply security.
Research areas of society, economy, history, archaeology, humanities and language
By examining the short-term and long-term conditions of economic growth at the macro- and micro-level, they are looking for answers to how large distribution systems and related policies can influence the sustainable development of the Hungarian economy, how they can make corporate networks more innovative and efficient, how human resources can contribute for the ever-higher quality reproduction of resources, how they can help break out of the poverty trap.
