University of Tokaj

On 1 August 2021 the University of Tokaj was established at the excellent Sárospatak Comenius Campus, formerly of the Eszterházy Károly University. It is run by the University of Tokaj Foundation.

    It carries out a wide range of educational, academic and public education activities to restore the once outstanding international intellectual, religious, cultural history, political and economic role of the Tokaj-Hegyalja and the neighbouring regions of Zemplén and Abaúj, and for the development of the Tokaj grape and wine culture known throughout the world.

    To provide the society with well-educated, highly qualified professionals with higher education qualifications who are good at theory and in practice thanks to their education and further training. Thus, the University also assists in helping retain the population of the region, in increasing its level of education and training and the happiness of those working here.

    To assist the contemporary synthesis of Sárospatak’s 500-year educational tradition of Comenius and Tokaji wine culture in cooperation with the region’s education, academic, economic and local council figures.

    As the region’s centre of learning, through its courses it will integrate the aspirations of the practitioners of academic disciplines affected by its trainings and links them into the mainstream of domestic and international academia.

    As a centre of knowledge, it contributes to the region’s sustainable development, to strengthening the society and economic competitiveness and to increasing its cultural, academic and tourist appeal.

    Within the framework of the social role the University undertakes, it cooperates in initiating and implementing educational and research programs, cultural, artistic and academic events, and in exploiting their synergistic effects.