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Welcome to the website of the Institute for Regional Studies of the CERS. The IRS/RKI is a leader among national think tanks in regional science, not only because of its size but also because its four scientific departments are located in different regions of the country, providing valuable local knowledge and embeddedness. The knowledge of the spatial patterns of natural, social, and economic resources and the reduction of spatial disparities, which requires a complex social science approach, is crucial for the country’s competitiveness and balanced development; this can only be provided in Hungary by the CERS Institute for Regional Studies, the base institute of Hungarian regional science, which has the critical mass for interdisciplinary research in cooperation with representatives of economics, geography, sociology, political science, and law.
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Doing and undoing communities. Opposing municipal narratives and ...
2025.02.18. | 10:27
A book chapter co-authored by Tünde Virág with Vera Messing, in 'Urban Marginality, Racialization, Interdependence', edited by F. Alexandrescu, R. Powell and A. Vilenica, has been published
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Trapped Ambitions: The Contradiction of Social Immobility amongst Roma ...
2025.02.11. | 15:47
Paper of Cecília Kovai, Fanni Mária Puskás and Alexandra Szőke is published
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Study of András Vigvári and Krisztina Németh published in ...
2025.02.06. | 09:21
Intertwined precarities: how can vulnerability create a labor relationship?
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Central Europe And The Balkans - Urban, Regional And Border Issues
2025.02.05. | 11:01
Issue 2024/3 of the Deturope journal is available online
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'Comparative analysis of small towns in Bulgaria and Hungary ...
2025.01.29. | 13:27
The publication was based on a two-year joint research project supported by the Hungarian and Bulgarian academies
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Study of Réka Horeczki, Ildikó Egyed and Szilárd Rácz published: ...
2025.01.20. | 09:55
The study summerizes the newest findings and the latest results of the 'Sub-national diplomacy in the international arena' research project financed by the NKFIH
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History of the institute
CERS Institute for Regional Studies
The predecessor of the Institute for Regional Studies, the Danubian Scientific Institute (DTI) was founded in Pécs in 1943. The Centre for Regional Studies (RKK) was established in 1984 on the basis of the DTI, which had been an academic research institute since 1955, and acquired its networked organisational structure based on rural units, which it has retained even after its integration into the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies (KRTK/CERS) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2012. It took a few years to consolidate the research synergies between the three institutes and to achieve a significant improvement in results.
