The university, as an integral part of the city, is dedicated to establishing such a cultural and sports environment by extending and strengthening the connections and points of contact between members of the university community and residents of the city which could be attractive for the business sphere and the people and thus could help the region in retaining its population and could have a positive effect on economic actors and investors. Besides program-based collaboration projects, the university and the city are looking for ways to cooperate in the field of healthy lifestyle and sports as well, including the joint development and operation of infrastructure and services, too. With the implementation of the following programs the university improves and broadens the prominent positions of the region in sports, increases the number of students participating in recreational sports activities and the time spent on doing sports, emphasizes a healthy lifestyle, and sports life at the university becomes a demand.
- Development of sports-related lifestyle and health services for students
- Strengthening of sports-related medical training
- Integrated operation and coordination of physical education and recreational sports services and their conditions
- Starting of a PE teacher training program
- Development of university competitive sports and related services
- Development and encouraging of recreational sports
- Strengthening and broadening of contacts with associations
- Providing sports scholarships
- Supporting the management of the sports system
- Medical and natural science research supporting professional sports and mass sports
The University of Debrecen is not only committed to educating students and staff in healthy lifestyles. It is an example among Hungarian institutions, but also in developing sports facilities necessary for carrying out activities. The recent investments in sports infrastructure are excellent examples of this. The UniFit Fitness & Gym Center in the Nagyerdei Stadium with about 2600 m2 and 200 training stations is one of the newest training complexes in the city, the DEAC-DAK Table Tennis Training Center with 700 m2 and 15 tables for certified, amateur ping-pong players, university students and hobby athletes. The youngest building is the Sports Economics Management and Tennis Centre called TEKNŐS (TURTLE), which awaits sports lovers with a useful floor area of 3748 m2 and 4 hard-covered tennis courts on Böszörményi campus of the University of Debrecen.