Centre for Social Sciences in H2020 and Horizon Europe
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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Featured news
Vera Messing - Tünde Virág (2025). Doing and undoing communities Opposing municipal narratives and spatial politics in a diverse neighbourhood of Budapest
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)
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)
Call for Papers – Special Panel: Cringe Culture in Politics
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
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.
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.
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)
New special issue published at Intersections
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.
Ana Stojilovska presented at a webinar on good practices for addressing transport poverty
Our Institute's research fellow presented about the good practices for tackling transport poverty in Hungary together with Lea Kőszeghy (CSS Institute for Sociology) on the 11th of December.
Our Colleagues participated in the WISE Pan-European Conference on Gender and Energy Poverty
Research fellow Ana Stojilovska and project assistant Sára Szabó represented our Institute in the WISE Pan-European Conference which took place on the 6th of December 2024 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Our results
Mental health risk in human services work across Europe: the predictive role of employment in various sectors
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
WISE project and OTKA research: Collective for women for solidarity in energy and the energy crisis in Hungary
4 November, 2024
Transport poverty in Hungary
Expert workshop on 9 October, 2024
Long-term impact of unhealthy food tax on consumption and the drivers behind: A longitudinal study in Hungary
Importance of social inequalities to contact patterns, vaccine uptake, and epidemic dynamics
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
The role of digital status in adult child–parent relationships in European comparative perspective
Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe. New publication by Ivett Szalma
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
Anti-pluralism, labour market policy and the pandemic: Political uses and social consequences of COVID-19 in Hungary
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.
New publication: Solidarity with displaced People from Ukraine in Hungary
Shrinking space. The changing political opportunities of advocacy groups in illiberal governance
Zsolt Boda's latest paper