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Dialogues on Europe 2025

Institute for Minority Studies

On 9 May 2025, the Institute for Central European Strategy in Ukraine organised "Dialogues on Europe", which aimed to synchronise the understanding of Europe and the European Union at the level of narratives and practices. The event was attended by participants from many countries. Our institute was represented by Csilla Fedinec, who gave a presentation.

Tóth Ágnes: Deutsche in Ungarn 1950–1970 Die deutsche Minderheit zwischen Stalinismus und Kádár-Regime

Institute for Minority Studies

Ágnes Tóth's German-language book Deutsche in Ungarn 1950-1970. Die deutsche Minderheit zwischen Stalinismus und Kádár-Regime was published by De Gruyter Brill.

Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg waren die im Land verbliebenen Ungarndeutschen zahlreichen Repressionen unterworfen. Ab 1950 konsolidierte sich deren Lage allmählich. Ágnes Tóth analysiert anhand zahlreicher Archivbestände die von vielen Widersprüchen gekennzeichnete Politik der ungarischen Staats- und Parteiführung gegenüber den Ungarndeutschen sowie die Bemühungen der deutschen Minderheit, als Teil der ungarischen Gesellschaft anerkannt zu werden. Dabei mussten sich die Ungarndeutschen nicht nur gegen die Assimilierungspolitik der Staatsmacht behaupten, sondern auch an unterschiedlichste Ausprägungen der kommunistischen Diktatur anpassen. Diese Monografie bietet einen detaillierten Überblick über alle zentralen Aspekte der Lage der deutschen Minderheit in Ungarn, z. B. der Verbandsstrukturen oder des Bildungs- und Pressewesens, wodurch die Autorin die erste Gesamtdarstellung zur Geschichte der Ungarndeutschen während der ersten Hälfte der kommunistischen Herrschaft vorlegt.

Issue 2025/1 of REGIO was published

Institute for Minority Studies

The full issue is available on the journal's website.

From the contents

Rural transitions

    Vegetable growers in the Aranyosszék

    Resources and communities in the mountains

German-Swabian heritage

    German-German dictionary of Hungary

    Language autobiographies

    German literature in Hungary after 1945

    German nationality kindergarten teacher, teacher and teacher training

Workshop  

    The situation of the Ladin community in South Tyrol

    Settlement census in Óbuda in the 1970s

The PLEDGE project has published policy recommendations

Institute for Political Science

The PLEDGE consortium, with members from the HUN-REN CSS Institute for Political Science, focuses on the emotional dynamics of political grievances and their impact on democratic politics, with the aim of strengthening societal and political resilience.

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)

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The activities of the research group Give Kids a Chance in 2018

Give Kids a Chance

The research team provides professional-methodological support for district and settlement programs aimed at improving children's chances and preventing the reproduction of disadvantages in the framework of a European Union co-financed consortium tender (EFOP-1.4.1-15 "Professional Support for Integrated Program for Children"). The primary objective and task of the research group is to assist the planning of Hungarian social policy interventions with policy-oriented research, analysis and evaluation.