Call for Applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Law (Budapest)
Institute for Legal Studies
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.
Featured news
“The Enforcement of EU Law and Values” (eds. András Jakab and Dimitry Kochenov) has just been published
Institute for Legal Studies
Article of András Vörös in Social Networks
Centre for Social Sciences
Call for Papers :: Civil society and social movements in the changing democracies of Central and Eastern Europe
Institute for Sociology
Call for papers: Conference “Institutional Reforms in Ageing Societies”
Institute for Legal Studies
Space and society :: Special issue in English No. 4 (2016)
Institute for Sociology
Call for Contributions - Refugee protection and the European civil society Workshop and publication
Institute for Minority Studies
Paksi, V., Nagy, B., & Király, G. (2016) The timing of motherhood while earning a PhD in engineering
Institute for Sociology
International Journal of Doctoral Studies, 11, 285-304. Download here>>
Are you interested in visiting an ERC grantee and collaborating with our research team?
Computational Social Science
Are you interested in visiting an ERC grantee and collaborating with our research team?
We are happy to host visiting scholars who are working on the topics that match our interests in the research funded by an ERC Grant. We use various methods that include agent-based models, advanced models of network dynamics, and text analytics to study the relationship between gossip, reputation, and cooperation. Please consult our homepage for further information on the project.
Solidarity with refugees in the European civil society
Institute for Minority Studies
Workshop and closing event of the project Social conflicts and identity politics
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.