The Eszterházy Károly University of Applied Sciences performs high quality educational and research work, binds to the two and half century traditions in higher education of the city of Eger and opened towards the challenges of the future as well. The college is constituted of a research centre, established in 2006, the Food and Wine Research Centre. It is a dominant professional institute in the fields of food sciences, food-safety technologies and bio analytics in Hungary.

The viticulture and oenological researches in the centre was strengthened during the last years, defers to demands of the wine region with optimisation and reorganization of the local sector. The principal activities of the Institute are origin protection, authentication and molecular biology studies, food analysis, food microbiology and hygiene related studies, electronic traceability system and food safety studies.