"Our organization, the Regional Cooperative Research Center of Life and Material Sciences (DEAK) was established in 2005 by 10 industrial partners and the University of Szeged, Hungary to promote the development of the knowledge-based economy in the South-Plain Region of Hungary, by creating and adapting high-tech achievements into practice, based on the requirements of the industrial partners.

The project is a mid-term program durating from 2005. 01. 01 to 2007. 12. 31. including the following fields of research:

• In the life-sciences there are projects on medical image development (source of beam, software), medical diagnostics, cosmetics (prevention of skin aging, laser treatments).

• In the material sciences there are strategic material and biotech researches in the field of renewable energies and waste-management (operation of gas, reform of etanol, biogas, fermentation of bio-hidrogen, microbiolic remediation).

Our main goal is to establish long-term cooperation with the DEAK’s industrial partners to promote the realization of our common aims, based on the intellectual potential, and the research & education capacity of the University of Szeged. We establish the DEAK to develop an intellectual basis which will be able to manage the whole innovation process, from the basic research up to the exploitation of the created intellectual property. "