The Biggest Knowledge-Based Project Is Being Realised In Hungary

The New Széchenyi Plan, launched a month ago, aims at restoring, revitalising and giving a new impetus to Hungary. Its national programmes support the realisation of large-scale common objectives, in several cases based on individual initiatives. The national programmes of the New Széchenyi Plan take each region and community as well as the prosperity of each citizen into consideration.

The Talentis Programme fits perfectly into the strategic goals and breakout points set out in the New Széchenyi Plan: it envisages job creation and the facilitation of development in education, vocational training and innovation. Similarly to California’s Silicon Valley and Europe’s Grand Lyon or Sophia Antipolis, the business, innovation and science centre concentrates financial and intellectual resources in a single place. The government joins the project as a co-owner in order to accelerate and give a fresh impetus to the realisation of the knowledge centre.

The three main pillars of the Talentis Programme - research and innovation, education and technology - efficiently co-act with the related infrastructure and life quality improvement. Several projects have already been completed and are operative in the Zsámbék Basin, including Agrogate Hungary, is one of the largest logistics parks of the country. Talentis Business Park and Innovation Centre is Hungary’s first environment-conscious suburban office park and innovation centre, which attends to micro-, small and medium-sized businesses.

Numerous developments, implemented under the Programme, serve the needs of the increasing local communities: thus the extension of the Herceghalom junction on motorway M1, the establishment of a communal/regional waste water treatment plant, the erection of a new health centre, the kindergarten reconstruction and expansion, the school renovation and the addition of a library, a canteen and an IT laboratory to the school.

During the signature of the letter of intent, Minister of National Development Tamás Fellegi stressed: “The national programmes outlined in the New Széchenyi Plan envisage complex development projects that require massive concerted effort, but once realised, they will lay the foundation of growth for complete regions. However, even among these ambitious projects Talentis is distinguished, as its completion will give momentum to growth and improve competitiveness not merely for a region, but for the entire country.”

At the press conference, Sándor Kenyeres emphasized that during the years since its start Talentis had already proved that it was capable of becoming an integrated, knowledge-based regional development project, which contributed to the development of Hungary, the Carpathian Basin, and within that, the Hungarian nation, but can also serve as a model to the whole Eastern Central European Region."

Ministry of National Develeopment & Talentis Group press release