Ongoing research projects
1)Co-creation in higher education
More and more companies realize the opportunity to boost their profits and meet the continuously changing needs of their customers with the help of co-creation. However, co-creation may not only be proven effective in the business world, but also in the field of education. Most definitions used in connection with co-creation in education focus on the co-creation of value and close cooperation of teachers and students. In terms of its applicability, co-creation does not specifically focus on certain study fields. However, it puts the emphasis mostly on the co-creator parties, the educators and students, and highlights that the success of co-creation depends on them and not on the field in which it is applied. The process of co-creation can be broken down to certain steps, which steps would make educators’ work easier when applying co-creation as a method. The definition of co-creation is still not clear though, as co-creation could be the common creation of small classroom tasks and the co-creation of the whole curriculum. Our research aims to analyze how much co-creation can be applied in higher education.
2) Raising awareness of university students to global issues
In the 21st century, there is a growing number of global challenges that we have to face: poverty, hunger, inequality, climate change, terrorism, migration, epidemics, conflicts, sustainability etc. Although the problems that a country has to face have become global, their solutions are still far from global cooperation. In order to overcome these issues, the youth has a growing role that increases the role edutain and that of universities, too. In line with this, the 4th Sustainable Development Goal details Quality Education, and one of its targets focuses on the role of global citizenship education (as an UNESCO aim). The aim of the research is to assess how university education can contribute to improve the awareness of the youngsters to the issues of developing countries. We are implementing a pilot at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Szeged, there is a course entitled International Development Cooperation.
3) Attitude of Generation Z to global issues
Recently, there is a growing number of global challenges that we have to face: poverty, hunger, inequality, climate change, terrorism, migration, epidemics, conflicts, sustainability etc. Although the problems that a country has to face have become global, their solutions are still far from global cooperation. In order to overcome these issues, the youth has a growing role. The 4th Sustainable Development Goal, namely Quality Education draws attention to global citizenship education (as an UNESCO aim). Global citizenship education has also become crucial in the European Union, as the EU launched its DEAR program (Development Education and Awareness Raising) aiming at increasing the awareness and critical thinking of the European citizens to the interdependent world and at improving the responsibility for global society. The aim of this research to explore the attitude of Generation Z towards global issues. In order to achieve this aim, we are going to conduct on online survey that covers not only Hungarian students but foreign students studying in Hungary.
4) What is an ideal work place like?
In the past years, we could see two significant processes on the labor market: the shortage of labor and labor turnover. So the role of workforce has valorized, and there is a war for the most talented ones among the organizations. The expectations for employers are constantly rising, and there is a really difficult task to meet the all employees’ expectations in order to attract and retain the talents. The question has arisen: What is a “dream workplace” like? Which are the most important features of it? What are the expectations of different generations in a workplace? Our research aim is to explore how much the job expectations of Gen Z talents and Gen X, Y talents on the workplaces differ.
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