Established in 2012, the Centre for Social Sciences (CSS), a Centre of Excellence of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, is currently a partner in nine EU-funded projects within the frameworks of both Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe. This amounts to over €1.3 million in funding for excellent and innovative research.
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CSS is part of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network, an independent public institution managed by a 13-member Governing Board and accountable to the Hungarian Parliament. CSS is classified as a public budgetary institution, making it eligible not only to submit proposals to any EU funding programme but also to participate in EU-funded projects as a coordinator, partner, or sole beneficiary.
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Our colleague Réka Marchut will give a lecture in German in Erdweg on 19 March 2025, at the workshop entitled Resettlements from a Comparative Perspective. Suotheastern Europe between 1938/1940 and 1945, organised by the Institut für Deutsche Kultur und Geschichte Südosteuropas. Her presentation will be entitled: Minority Policy in Southeastern Europe in the Interwar Period
On March 15, 2025, Dr. István Stumpf was awarded the Széchenyi Prize. On behalf of the entire Institute, we extend our heartfelt congratulations to our retired Senior Research Fellow!
Messing Vera - Virág Tünde (2025). Doing and undoing communities Opposing municipal narratives and spatial politics in a diverse neighbourhood of Budapest. In. Alexandrescu, Powell and Vilenaica (eds) Urban Marginality, Racialization, Interdependence. Learning from Eastern Europe. Abingdon, New York: Routledge. (pp 189-209) ISBN: 9781032588575. DOI: 10.4324/9781003451785
Hilbert, B. (2024). Exploring new dimensions of urban governance: The development of administrative systems in Trieste and Fiume (Rijeka) during the final decades of the Habsburg Empire (1850–1918). Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 73(4), 437-454. https://doi.org/10.15201/hungeobull.73.4.6 (D1, IF:1,4)
Gabriella Szabó (HUN-REN TK PTI) and Lenka Vochocová (Charles University, Prague) are organising a panel discussion for the upcoming ECREA conference titled “Cringe Culture in Politics: Exploring Humour, Vulnerability, and Ridicule in the Digital Age.” The organisers are accepting applications for the panel discussion until March 14, 2025.
Tardos, K., Paksi, V. (2024). The precarity paradox: Experiences of female PhD holders across career stages in STEM fields (2024). Learning and Teaching, 17(3), 58-80., from https://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2024.170304 (Q2)
Győri, Á., Perpék, É., & Ádám, S. (2024). Mental health risk in human services work across Europe: the predictive role of employment in various sectors. Frontiers in Public Health, Vol. 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1407998 (Q1, IF: 3)
Ivett Szalma - Judit Takács (2025).The impact of political-demographic considerations on European attitudes towards parenting and adoption by same-sex couples. European Journal of Politics and Gender (published online ahead of print 2025). https://doi.org/10.1332/25151088Y2024D000000072 (Q1)
The special issue of Intersections titled Unsettling Gender, Sexuality, and the European East/West Divisions was published.
Guest editors: Maria Mayerchyk, Olga Plakhotnik, and Jennifer Ramme.
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20 March, 2025
New publication:
Szalma I, Heers M, Tanturri ML (2025) Measuring attitudes towards voluntary childlessness: Indicators in European comparative surveys. PLOS ONE 20(3): e0319081. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319081
New publication: Ágnes Győri, Éva Perpék, Szilvia Ádám: Mental health risk in human services work across Europe: the predictive role of employment in various sectors. Frontiers in Public Health-ben (Q1, IF: 3)
30 January, 2025
4 November, 2024
Expert workshop on 9 October, 2024
Manna, A., Koltai, J. & Karsai, M. Importance of social inequalities to contact patterns, vaccine uptake, and epidemic dynamics. Nature Communication 15, 4137 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48332-y
Ivett Szalma & Marieke Heers (2024) Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe. Understanding the Links Between Pronatalism and Voluntary Childlessness, International Journal of Sociology, DOI: 10.1080/00207659.2024.2319420
Gárdos, J., Hungler, S., & Illéssy, M. (2024) Anti-pluralism, Labour Market Policy and the Pandemic: Political Uses and Social Consequences of COVID-19 in Hungary. Social & Legal Studies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639241233939. Online first. Q1.
