Life beyond studying - Everyone is doing it in a different way
While you are overwhelmed by the whirl of scientific life, buried under textbooks and dazed of the smell of hops coming from the brewery located near the university, consider taking a quick glance at the offer of our university where your can browse among a wide variety of services, entertainment and relaxation options.
You can receive help with managing petty issues and everyday to-dos of student life at multiple organizational units of the university. With administrative matters (student funds, hostel residence etc.), you can receive support from the Student Centre (Diákcentrum in Hungarian) maintained by the Student Council (abbreviated as HÖK in Hungarian). Regarding less formal matters, the Office of Student Services (name at birth: BTK-TTK Szolgáltató Iroda, nickname: Szolgi) stands at your disposal. At the office, you can have a copy made of your fellow students’ illegible and unintelligible lecture notes or, if you only realize your situation at the end of the semester, you can as well have a bound copy of the curriculum.
You will owe thanks to the staff of the Central Office of Student Services (name at birth: Központi Hallgatói Szolgáltató Iroda, nickname: KÖSZI) for finding help when you feel worn out by student life or when you are worried about your private life (psychological counselling) as well as when you suffer from numb limbs („Fenekestől felforgatunk!” [‘We’ll turn your bottoms up!’] physical fitness programme) or when job-hunting looks desperate (career counselling, job fairs). Of course, if you are about to prevent all this, the KÖSZI will also provide you with useful information in the form of trainings and courses. If you choose to eliminate problems by the final transcendent therapy instead of evanescent secular solutions, the clergymen of the Religious Ministry of the University will foster your spiritual growth within the traditions of several Christian denominations.
Uniquely in Hungary, our university has been the first to establish a University Support Services aimed at facilitating life management of students and teachers living with disabilities. Even if you are not in need of such support, you have the opportunity to prove your empathic sensitivity by undertaking voluntary work at the Support Services.
After having eliminated the entire negative side of your life by the above means, it is time to relax for a moment. The botanical garden surrounding the university buildings, with which you may as well become familiar during lectures held in the garden due to complications about the assignment of lecture rooms, offers an excellent opportunity to have a rest holding an issue of Pécsi Bölcsész in your hand. The official faculty newspaper is the best choice, either you want to gather information on public life at the faculty or you happen to expect a pat on the back from friends for your newly published article. If you are seeking for active recreation having already relaxed too much, you can find a myriad of opportunities staying in the close environment of the university.
The Physical Education and Recreation Centre offers swimming opportunity free of charge or, if you have already found many friends, you can play ball games in the gymnasium within the time slots reserved for students and teachers. If you are considering to engage in sports more seriously, you are warmly welcome to join any of several departments of the Athletic Club of the University of Pécs established in 1923 (abbreviated as PTE-PEAC in Hungarian).
If fellows at the KÖSZI have already ‘turned your bottom up’ but you have still not had enough of motion, a unique opportunity is offered by an initiative of our university, namely, the Dancing University® (Táncoló Egyetem® in Hungarian). Here you can find almost everything at all levels from beginner to professional. From body-shaping aerobics to hip-hop electric boogie, you can choose from countless dance styles as well as you can opt, depending on your temperament, for Irish stepdance, Cuban salsa or Hungarian folk dance. Partner dance classes may provide a good preparation for next year’s freshmen’s ball while, in addition, they offer a great opportunity to make new acquaintances.
If you would rather enjoy yourself while sitting, the Janus University Theatre (Janus Egyetemi Színház in Hungarian) awaits you with excellent plays, and if you have a flair for acting, you may as well try yourself on the stage. Besides, the Szolgi (the Office of Student Services) offers tickets at discount price for several concerts and performances held at university venues (e.g. stand-up comedy shows of the Dumaszínház troupe).
Finally, when the sun sinks below the red hills of the Jakabhegy, nightlife is ready to start. In the neighbourhood of the university and in the town centre, pleasing nightclubs await you with the special flavours of Pécs beers and Villány wines. In turn, the faculty club named Szenes offers movie nights, various majors' parties and other fantabulous parties. And if, after all these, you wake up to a new day, you can start all over again!
Living in Pécs
Living in Pécs
Our Campus
Our Campus
Accomodation
Accommodation
Sport Opportunities
Library and Knowledge Centre
Students and staff of the University can use the majority of library services free of charge after subscribing to any of the faculty libraries or the Central Library. As ours is a public library, our subscribers include people from the city and the region, students from various Hungarian universities and many other people.
University of Pécs Library Network:
- Knowledge Center
(H-7622 Pécs, Universitas u. 2/A. | Phone: +36-72/ 501-650) - Library of the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Sciences
(H-7624 Pécs, Ifjúság útja 6. | Phone: +36-72/ 503-600/ 24514) - English, German, Austrian and Swiss Studies Library
(H-7624 Pécs, Ifjúság útja 6. | Phone: +36-72/ 503-600/ 24665) - Political Science and Philosopy Studies Library
(H-7624 Pécs, Ifjúság útja 6. | Phone: +36-72/ 503-600/ 24514) - History and Sociology Studies Library
(H-7624 Pécs, Rókus u. 2. M/1. GF 01. | Phone: +36-72/ 503-650/ 23560) - Geography Studies Library
(H-7624 Pécs, Ifjúság útja 6. C/5 Building| Phone: +36-72/ 503-600/ 24626) - Faculty of Health Sciences Pécs Campus Library
(H-7621 Pécs, Vörösmarty M. u. 4. | Phone: +36 72/ 513-670/ 627) - Faculty of Health Sciences Kaposvár Campus Library
(H-7400 Kaposvár, Szent Imre u. 14/B | Phone: +36-82/ 529-953) - Faculty of Health Sciences Szombathely Campus Library
(H-9700 Szombathely, Jókai u. 14. | Phone: +36-94/ 311-170/ 56) - Faculty of Health Sciences Zalaegerszeg Campus Library
(H-8900 Zalaegerszeg, Landorhegyi u. 33. | Phone: +36-92/ 323-020/ 36) - Mihály Pekár Medical and Life Sciences Library
with further information in English!
(H-7624 Pécs, Szigeti u. 12. | Phone: +36-72/ 536-001/31404) - University of Pécs, Library of Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Education and Regional Development
(H-7100 Szekszárd, Rákóczi u. 1. | Phone: +36-74/ 528-304, +36-74/ 528-300 / 1010) - Library of the Faculty of Music and Visual Arts
(H-7624 Pécs, Zsolnay Vilmos u. 16. | Phone: +36-72/ 501-500/ 22818) - Library of the Faculty Engeneering and Information Technology
(H-7624 Pécs, Boszorkány u. 2. | Phone: +36-72/ 503-650 / 23932)
Student Support and Services (Security, mental support)
Psychology Student Association
Psychology Student Association
Students' Scientific Activity
Many research projects involve links between different members of the Institute as well as work with other Institute at Universityof Pécs (e.g. Medical School) and other universities in Hungary and abroad.
Our research is published in leading Hungarian and international scientific journals and disseminated at major conferences.
We have excellent laboratory facilities, including neuroscience facilities (EEG/ERP, fMRI), and behavioural measurement systems (baby and children lab).
The academic and research staff, as well as over 20 PhD students ensure a vibrant institutional research climate.
Main research fields for students:
EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
Altruism, cooperation, generosity
Mate choice, physical attractiveness
Homogamy, sexual imprinting.
Machiavellianism.
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Face perception and personality
Studies in cognitive developmental psychology
fMRI studies
Integration of visual and textual materials
Sport psychological investigation of cognitive functions
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Trauma, abuse.
Early parent-infant interactions
Effects of life events on family relationships
Body attitude and sexuality in adolescence
PERSONALITY AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
Health psychology of chronic diseases
The Szondi test and its theoretical basis
Studies in attachment theory
Prenatal psychology
SOCIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Studies in narrative psychology
Intergroup relations
Experimental investigation of implicit semantics
Theoretical psychoanalysis
The previously presented research units and teams are not teachers’ ‘ivory towers’. Students also have the opportunity to join scientific teamwork. In this way, collaboration between teachers and students has become closer since the establishment of the institute that has been manifested in our students’ active participation in the scientific programme of the National Conferences of Scientific Students' Associations (abbreviated as OTDK in Hungarian). At the five OTDK conferences held during the past ten years, our students have presented nearly 50 studies whose quality could hardly be better reflected in anything else than in the fact that more than 30 of them ranked 1st to 3rd places. Joining any of our research units and teams provide students with opportunities to present their studies at Hungarian and international conferences as well as to publish them.
Our students’ activity have also yielded Fellowships Granted by the Republic in recent years. In the academic year of 2013-2014, six of the twenty-four fellowships were awarded to psychology students at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Pécs.
Our faculty supports students’ scientific activity in several ways. Its talent management programme financially supports students’ conference participation and academic progress while two colleges for advanced studies named after Endre Grastyán and Károly Kerényi help students progress by employing mentor teachers and organizing conferences. Our institute is concerned in these colleges both by participating students and teachers.
