New Horizon Europe projects to launch
July 2023
The Horizon Europe research project proposal MORES – "Moral emotions in politics: how they unite, how they divide" submitted by CSS (project leader Zsolt Boda) was successful and got funding. CSS will lead the European consortium.
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.
Learn more about our EU funded projects:
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.
The scientific performance of CSS Budapest in 2022
The annual meeting of CSS took place on 23 March, 2023, where General Director Zsolt Boda presented the results of the previous year.
The scientific performance of CSS kept improving also in 2022.
Upcoming events
Featured news
Dorottya Szikra (2019) Ideology or Pragmatism? Interpreting Social Policy Change under the System of National Cooperation
In Kovács, J. M. and B. Trencsényi (Eds.) Brave New Hungary: Mapping the System of National Cooperation; Rowman and Littlefield, Lexington Books, 225-241.
Labour relations and employment policies in times of volatility
The special issue of socio.hu has been published
Call for a Visiting Researcher Fellowship
The Institute for Political Science at the Centre for Social Sciences calls for applications for a three-month visiting researcher fellowship in “Public policy in the digital age”. The successful candidate will be affiliated with the Department of Government and Public Policy.
China and Eastern Europe: New Presences
A Century of Minority Rights - Lessons from the Post-Versailles System
Expert seminar organized by the International Centre for Ethnic And Linguistic Diversity Studies and the Department of Russian and East European Studies, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University.
Our colleagues, Balázs DOBOS and Balázs VIZI participate in the panel discussion entitled The new challenges and new dividing lines between the ‘West’ and the ‘East’ and the future of the European minority rights regime.
The event takes place at the House of National Minorities, Prague on 6 December 2019.
Publication: Rudolf Metz's and Dániel Oross's new article
Rudolf Metz and Dániel Oross have recently published an article entilted „Strong Personalities’ Impact on Hungarian Party Politics: Viktor Orbán and Gábor Vona” in "Party Leaders in Eastern Europe” edited by Sergiu Gherghina.
Household debt on the peripheries of Europe: new constellations since 2008
Workshop organized by Periféria Policy and Research Center.
Our colleague, Judit DURST attends and presents her paper entitled Spiralling debts of low-income households: the case of homemaking
grant (CSOK) in rural Hungary.
The event takes place at the Gólya Cooperative, on 22-23 November, 2019.
Conference call: Social partner involvement in the European Semester
Zoltán Kacsuk holds a tutorial on Machine Learning with Apache Spark on the 14th of November, 2019
Apache Spark is currently one of the most popular open-source cluster-computing frameworks. With its Machine Learning Library (MLlib) it supports the easy scaling of a range of feature extraction and machine learning tasks commonly employed in text mining. Furthermore, it works with both Python and R.
Our results
Beyond multidirectional memory: Opening pathways to politics and solidarity
15 June, 2023
Recently published:
Kékesi, Z., & Zombory, M. (2023). Beyond multidirectional memory: Opening pathways to politics and solidarity. Memory Studies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231176040
Illés–Körösényi: The touch of the leader. Representation and responsiveness in plebiscitary leader democracy
June 2023
Gábor Illés & András Körösényi (2023) The touch of the leader: representation and responsiveness in plebiscitary leader democracy, Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, DOI: 10.1080/1600910X.2023.2220086
A safety net against populism? An investigation of the interaction effect of political efficacy and democratic capacities on populist attitudes
June 2023
New publication: Márton Bene & Zsolt Boda (2023) A safety net against populism? An investigation of the interaction effect of political efficacy and democratic capacities on populist attitudes, Political Research
Populist radical-right governments in Central-Eastern Europe and education policy-making: a comparison of Hungary and Poland
June 2023
Recently published:
Eszter Neumann & Paweł Rudnicki (2023) Populist radical-right governments in Central-Eastern Europe and education policy-making: a comparison of Hungary and Poland, Journal of Contemporary European Studies
Agency of Migrant youth in hostile sociopolitical environments: Case studies from Central Eastern Europe
April 2023
Arendas, Zsuzsanna, Agnieszka Trąbka, Vera Messing, Marta Jadviga Pietrusińska, and Dominika Winogrodzka. 2023. "Agency of Migrant Youth in Hostile Sociopolitical Environments: Case Studies from Central Eastern Europe" Social Sciences 12, no. 4: 210. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12040210
Anti-democratic youth? The influence of youth cohort size and quality of democracy on young people’s support for democracy
20 April, 2023
Godfred Bonnah Nkansah – Attila Bartha (2023) Anti-democratic youth? The influence of youth cohort size and quality of democracy on young people’s support for democracy. Contemporary Politics (IF: 1.6999) https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2023.2196877
A prosocial fake news intervention with durable effects
The paper promoted family-based prosocial values—in terms of helping digitally less competent family members—among young adults to build persisting resistance against fake news in an informational autocracy.
The impact of social-relationship patterns on worsening mental health among the elderly during the COVID-19 pandemic
13 March, 2023
Motivations of subsistence farming in Hungary: Analysis of a multi-factored phenomenon
15 Febuary, 2023
Kovách, I. and Megyesi, G.B. (2023), Motivations of Subsistence Farming in Hungary: Analysis of a Multi-Factored Phenomenon. Rural Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12476
Honesty in signalling games is maintained by trade-offs rather than costs
16 January, 2023
New publication of Szabolcs Számadó with co-authors