Golden Careers

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences has awarded the Cursus Vitae Aureus, i.e., the Golden Lifetime Achievement Award, to two emeritus professors of the UP Faculty of Business and Economics, Iván Bélyácz and Gábor Rekettye.

The Committee for Economic Sciences of the Academy of Sciences awards the Golden Lifetime Achievement Award to researchers over 60 years of age whose accomplishments have extended beyond their own institution and even beyond national borders.

So far, only five people have been awarded the prize, two of them former lecturers/researchers at the UPFBE.

"This lifetime achievement award is for academic achievement. I am, of course, proud of that, but I am also among the few who have had professional experience outside the university. Five and a half of these years were spent in commercial diplomacy, as I was the head of the Hungarian branch in Japan. I think I can be proud of my achievements there and in manufacturing as well as in foreign trade," said Professor Gábor Rekettye, commenting on the award.

Commenting on the lifetime achievement, Professor Iván Bélyácz said: “In 2010, I received a similar award from the Institute of Economics, and now I have been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Committee for Economics. When I started my career as a university lecturer and researcher, there was limited and fragmented knowledge of business in academia. Throughout my career, I have sought to enrich this knowledge. Today, we have a much more differentiated view of business, and I am glad to have contributed to its development through my work."