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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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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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Paper of Tamás Hardi, Ádám Páthy and Andrea Pozsgai published in ...
2025.01.15. | 12:17
Residents’ attitudes and behaviours on private green spaces in the suburban areas of Central European countries
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Papers of Edit Hoyk Edit and Jenő Zsolt Farkas and co-authors ...
2025.01.14. | 13:25
Two papers of our colleagues published
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Paper of Péter Balogh is published in Journal of Advanced Studies on ...
2025.01.14. | 12:52
Cross-border health and emergency services (based on the results of b-solutions and beyond)
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Special issue of the Romanian Review of Regional Studies published ...
2025.01.06. | 10:18
Special issue related to the Romanian-Hungarian bilateral project
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Hell, or Heaven – “The crisis in the country is so severe that ...
2025.01.02. | 10:04
First results from a new research project of Ákos Bodor, Márk Hegedüs and Péter Szegedi
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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.
