Authors of the best publications of our institutes are acknowledged each year. On 5 March, 2025, Zsolt Boda, General Director, handed out the awards at the annual meeting of the Centre for Social Sciences, followed by brief presentations of the research findings.
We inform our partners that due to a government decision, our research centre was integrated into ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. As of 1 August 2025, our legal name is ELTE Centre for Social Sciences
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Institute for Political Science
The Institute for Political Science, Centre for Social Sciences is launching a scholarship programme for BA, MA and PhD students to support scientific work in political science. The programme offers a short-term publication scholarship to increase the international visibility of the academic production of young scholars. To be eligible for a 2022 Scholarship, a candidate must be an undergraduate/graduate/doctoral student enrolled at a Hungarian University.
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Centre for Social Sciences
European societies in times of turmoil. Snapshots from the European Social Survey
Institute for Legal Studies
Call for Papers: The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Law in Europe: Values, Rights and Regulation in the European Legal Space
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Institute for Minority Studies
Zakariás, Ildikó: Kinship Idioms and Care-Control Dynamics in Hungarian Co-ethnic Philanthropy. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations (IF: 2,46). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-022-00460-z
Institute for Sociology
Ibolya Czibere – Imre Kovách – Piotr Szukalski – Pawel Starosta (2021): Depopulation and Public Policies in Rural Central Europe. The Hungarian and Polish Cases. Ager: Revista de Estudios sobre Despoblacion y Desarrollo Rural, 33, 57-82. (Q3)
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March 2026
Benedek István (2026): Polarizing transition? Opposition strategies and the rise of Péter Magyar and the Respect and Freedom Party (TISZA) in Hungary. Comparative European Politics.
9 July, 2025
Szikra, D., & Autischer, L. (2025). Illiberal Social Policy in Europe: When Policy Implementation Meets Welfare Ideas. Politics and Governance, 13, Article 9707. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.9707