Set up in 1998, the ITTK (Information Society and Trend Research Institute) is a research institute of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. In 2010 the Budapest University of Technology and Economics was ranked as one of the elite research universities in Hungary. From the outset, this institute established a domestic and international reputation by a great number of researches, publications of  books and trade papers – to become an unavoidable participant in the research on information society.

Building up the information society is the most significant economic, social, and cultural change in the modern age with strong effects on the whole word, influencing the quality of life, success, activity and survival of individuals, companies, the State and social communities.

Basically, the ITTK is engaged in two kinds of research: basic researches published in the international and domestic area and assignments undertaken in the research fields that fit into our profile. We are proud that ten years ago, most of our clients returned to us with a new assignment. In recent years we carry out basic research work as a part of international consortia or assigned by international organizations.

In addition to quantitative, conventional, and online large-sample data collections, our research methods cover the widest possible application of qualitative methods, including in-depth interview, focus group, content analyses, but laboratory tests are also performed. Secondary analyses also known as desk researches are added to primary researches.

The strength of our institute is the sensitivity to trends: in issues related to the information society in the widest sense we undertake analyses made with short, mid, and long-term high value addition – it is not by chance that in ten years, both companies and the state sector have assigned us making a number of strategic documents. In domestic and international researches, we give effective supports first of all for grounding the social and theoretical background. In our research works, we test the features, opinion and attitude of target groups, deal with testing or product and service development of some products and results in Hungarian and Eastern / Central European environment, give ground to realize experimental research series, to explore domestic and international trends in order to support decision preparation work with data.

The ITTK works with almost 50 researchers, including anthropologist, agrarian engineer, electrical engineer, sociologists, psychologist, teacher, biologist, public administration expert, lawyer, economist, physician, etc. The ITTK is able to activate and include in research any professional and department of the Technical University.

ITTK's key fields of research:

  • basic research, in-depth knowledge of the present
  • professional decision preparation studies, scripts, scenarios
  • strategy-making, short and long term trend analyses

In ten years, the ITTK has become a dominant and unavoidable participant in the research on information society both in the domestic and international arena. Our researches and trend analysis serve as authentic sources both in the business, civil, and state sphere.

  • in ten years, we conducted more than 200 major researches to our clients’ satisfaction
  • the ITTK made a textbook dealing with the European information society, translated into English and Greek and taught in a number of countries. This time, we work on the second enlarged edition
  • the ITTK is the Hungarian initiator and one of the hosts to the world’s largest (5,000-member) longitudinal residential online panels, the World Internet Project followed over ten years. By this means, we may provide with really reliable and comparable data for our clients, for ten years, we publish a periodical represented and processed in international researchers’ specialized scientific databases, which is an essential source of knowledge for Hungarian professionals and everyone interested
  • In every year, the ITTK as a partner or project manager takes part in three or four multinational researches in the average
  • we sum up any domestic and international changes in the information society, novelties in the fields of eGovernment and equal opportunities. This types of our reports are fundamental sources not only for conferences and experts, but serve as curriculum for instructors in this field.
  • The ITTK makes the UNESCO annual dealing with recent changes in the information society, reaching all countries in the word and having translated from English into French and Russian in consideration of the great interest
  • with the help of its publisher program, the ITTK issued more than 20 technical books and publications
  • our researchers have a PhD degree only are students in a doctorate school.