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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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)
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New book: The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Law in Europe
13 May, 2025
The book The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Law in Europe published recently by Springer was edited by Márton Varju and Kitti Mezei, as part of the book series Data Science, Machine Intelligence, and Law.
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.