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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New publication – Marianna Kopasz, Attila Bartha and Judit Takács: Pandemic policymaking in European populist and liberal democracies

Institute for Political Science

The study titled "Pandemic policymaking in European populist and liberal democracies: a comparison between Hungary and Portugal" by Marianna Kopasz, our Institute's Senior Research Fellow, Attila Bartha, our Institute's Senior Research Fellow, and Judit Takács, Research Professor of the Institute for Sociology, has been published in the journal "Political Research Exchange".

F. Albert, M. Gerdán, B. Dávid., Z. Brys (2025): Potential protective factors against negative interpersonal influence regarding COVID-19 vaccination - A cross-sectional study on Covid-19 vaccine discussion networks

Institute for Sociology

F. Albert, M. Gerdán, B. Dávid., Z. Brys (2025): Potential protective factors against negative interpersonal influence regarding COVID-19 vaccination - A cross-sectional study on Covid-19 vaccine discussion networks. ELSEVIER https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.101473 (Q1)

Vera Messing - Tünde Virág (2025). Doing and undoing communities Opposing municipal narratives and spatial politics in a diverse neighbourhood of Budapest

Institute for Sociology

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)

Institute for Sociology

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)

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