Research Team on Territorial Development and ICT

The Research Team on Territorial Development and ICT of the University of Pécs, Faculty of Natural Sciences was established in 2002, in order to integrate relevant research-based results and methodology, which have been achieved and continuously applied by the members of the Team in their programmes for development.

The main goals of TEAM are to apply ICT in the development of territory, of society, and to establish, through infrastructural frames, micro-regional and regional ICT systems so as to:

• follow up territorial, settlement-oriented changes;
• support relevant organisations of territory development with current data;
• possess information referring to the preparation for decisions on territory development, to strategic decisions;
• outline major directions of possible trainings in ICT-based networking, e-learning, m-learning, and distance working development; - offer labour-market oriented services, run special e-consultancy service;
• co-ordinate and exchange information amongst different bodies of the network;
• analyse impacts of decision.

Fields of Research

Priority research field of research team RTTD&ICT is to increase regional human potentials; to create training and educational structures and community spaces. Main tool to do so is the knowledge-based intensive territory development focused on the notional structure of e-neighbourhood. This will be our contribution to CAENTI project. Regional Knowledge-based Intensive Territory Development. Knowledge of territory

1. e-neighbourhood.
   Priority field of research of TEAM is to increase regional human potentials; to create training, educational structures and community spaces. Its instrument is the knowledge-based intensive territory development focusing on the notional structure of e-neighbourhood. Therefore, the e-neighbourhood initiative has a particular role to set up a communication frame, focusing on natural human partnerships, for the participants of locality. Public administration, public services and educational, civic organisations are constrained by strong territorial ties. From the aspect of the user, the perspective of enriching, expanding communication possibilities through the surrounding space and related interests becomes valuable and useful.
2. Regional Knowledge-based Intensive Territory Development.
   International concepts on territory development have been applying results of researches that influence territory development. The establishment and formation of relevant HR analysis/strategy is a key task. This system maintains the stability of the territory and the competitiveness of the local enterprises (it supports related workforce demands of local employers with current vocation-oriented knowledge). The environment of the under-educated must be analysed together with barriers that have „grown up” to separate them from the labour market. Our role is to put down those barriers and help those people find their way back/enter to the labour market by using special tools. Territorial development, therefore, must mean a special support within which the territory becomes able to use its resources. One of its elements is the proper use of ICT infrastructure. That is why e-neighbourhood has come to the focus of our attention.