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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Speaker Series – Dr. Matthew Edward Bergman
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Our colleagues at CEECOM 2018
Our colleagues participated at 11th Central and Eastern European Communication and Media Conference, CEECOM 2018 from 30 May to 1 June, 2018.
BESTPRAC Group STSM Budapest 2018 - International workshop for research managers
An inspiring knowledge exchange experience - Centre for Social Sciences HAS (CSS HAS/MTA TK) and Central European University hosted and organized a 4-day-long workshop in Budapest for an international team of research managers.
Media Appearance: Miklós Sebők in a political talk show
Miklós Sebők, principal investigator of the POLTEXT text mining project participated in a panel on "Magyarul Balóval", a news show on RTL Klub, the leading Hungarian television channel.
Managing Precarious Work: Economic Anthropological Approaches to Informalized and Low-wage Labor
Conference at CEU, Budapest (Nádor u. 15., Room 103 – tiered room) on 16 April, 17:00-20:15
Zoltán Szente, Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz (eds), New Challenges to Constitutional Adjudication in Europe ‒ A Comparative Perspective, Routledge, 2018 has just been published
Call for Papers: European Social Survey 2nd ESS Visegrad Regional Network Meeting
Civil societies and social movements in the changing democracies of Central and Eastern Europe :: Socio.hu, Special issue in English No. 5 (2017)
“A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia helyzete és reformlehetőségei” (The Situation and Reform Opportunities of the Hungarian Academy Of Sciences) has just been published
Franklin–Kovách–Csurgó (2017) Governing Social Innovation: Exploring the Role of ‘Discretionary Practice’ in the Negotiation of Shared Spaces of Community Food Growing
SOCIOLOGIA RURALIS 57:(4) pp. 439-458. (2017)
Our results
Measuring attitudes towards voluntary childlessness: Indicators in European comparative surveys
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
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.