Centre for Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Institutes of Centre for Regional Studies

Great Plain Research Institute

H-6000 Kecskemét, Rákóczi út 3.

H-(6001 Kecskemét, P.O. Box 261.)

Tel.: (36-76) 502-840

Fax: (36-76) 502-849

Director: Bálint CSATÁRI, C.Sc (Geography)

E-mail: csatbal@rkk.hu

Transdanubian Research Institute

H-7621 Pécs, Papnövelde u. 22.

H-(7601 Pécs, P.O. Box 199.)

Tel.: (36-72) 523-823

Fax: (36-72) 523-822

Director: Ilona PÁL-KOVÁCS, D.Sc (Political Science)

(Political Sciences)

E-mail: palne@rkk.hu

Central and North Hungarian Research Institute

H-1014 Budapest, Teréz körút 13. .

H-(1380 Budapest P.O. Box 1182.)

Tel.: (36-1) 212-9525

Fax: (36-1) 212-9526

Director: Györgyi BARTA, D.Sc (Geography)

E-mail: barta@rkk.mta.hu

West Hungarian Research Institute

H-9022 Győr, Liszt Ferenc u. 10.

H-(9002 Győr, P.O. Box 420.)

Tel.: (36-96) 516-570

Fax: (36-96) 516-579

Director: Mihály LADOS, C.Sc. (Economics)

E-mail: ladosm@rkk.hu

Mission

The Centre for Regional Studies, which is an institute of complex social science researches, was founded in 1983 and operates in the form of a network. It is a base of the Hungarian regional development researches, played and still plays a dominant role in the creation, carrying out and training of regional sciences, in co-operation with the European system of science.

The strategic objectives of the Centre

Research of the long term Hungarian and international processes of regional and urban development, the globalising (European, Euro-regional, Central-Eastern European, Hungarian) spatial structures, their division of labour, their system of institutions and tools; Establishment of decisions concerning regional development in Hungary and the country's accession to the European integration; Training and further training of the experts of regional and urban development.

The Centre for Regional Studies, by research organisation based on programmes, acts as a framework institute in theoretical researches and in the implementation of strategic programmes. The CRS initiated the setting up and operation of the Committee for Regional Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The research fellows of the institute direct the special committees of regional and urban development in the regional committees of the Academy, also, they lead graduate and postgraduate and PhD courses on regional economics in Hungarian higher education institutions.

Scientific profile of the institutions

Great Plain Research Institute

• Study of the economic, societal and environmental renewal of the Great Hungarian Plain
• Methodology of micro regional researches
• Rural development strategies
• Development concept and strategy for the Great Hungarian Plain
• Survey of the Carpathians Euro-region and the Tisza–Maros–Danube cooperation

Transdanubian Research Institute

• Survey of Hungarian and international regionalism
• Regional development and policy in Europe
• The institutional system of public administration and regional development
• Methodology of regional development programming
• Regional requirements of sustainable development
• Complex survey of the infrastructure systems and networks
• Regional development strategy for South Transdanubia
• Analysis of the regional development of the Central and Easter European region

Central and North Hungarian Research Institute

• Study on the regional structure of urban network and of society
• Analysis of the spatial structure of urban functions and urban network
• Survey of Budapest and its agglomeration based on international comparisons
• Survey of rural areas and creations strategies for them
• Development strategy for North Hungary

West Hungarian Research Institute

• Survey of the spatial spreading of innovation
• Analysis of regional financial and income processes
• Study of the Vienna–Bratislava–Győr cooperative region
• Comparative analysis of success regions, cities
• Regional development concept and strategy for North Transdanubia
  

Research programmes and fields for cooperation

Regional development and policies in Europe

• Driving forces of regional development in a Western Europe
• The systems of regional policy tools and institutions in the advanced market economies
• Structural and cohesion policy of the European Union

Regional transformation in East-Central Europe

• Regional development processes in East-Central Europe
• Transformation of the urban network
• Cross-border co-operations
• Euro-regions
• Directions of development in the Danube regions (VISION-PLANET programme)

The regional development strategy of Hungary

• The impact of the European processes on
• The Hungarian spatial structure
• The development of the regional economic structure in Hungary
• Spatial types in Hungary
• Transformation of the settlement structure
• Success settlements and regions
• Regional policy and the EU accession
• Environment protection and regional development

The institutional system of territorial administration and regional policy

• The institutional system of regional development
• New functions of the territorial administration
• The role of local governments in regional development
• Regions as an institute and their functions
• Co-operation of the actors in regional development

Regional development concepts and strategies

• National Development Concept of Hungary
• Regional development concepts
• County development concepts
• Urban development concepts
• Regional establishment of sectoral and business development strategies
  

Education activities

• Joint PhD programme on regional policy and economics with the Faculty of Economics of the University of Pécs
• Post-graduate courses on regional and urban development
• Institute of Sociology and Social Policy, Faculty of Arts of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
• Faculty of Economics of the University of Pécs (graduate training)
• Faculty of Economics of the University of Pécs (two-year specialisation on regional economics)
• Széchenyi István University, two-year training of urban economics, Győr
• Training of the subjects of regional science and participation in the PhD training in the following higher education institutes: Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Science of University of Pécs; Faculty of Economics, Miskolc; Faculty of Natural Sciences of József Attila University, Szeged.
  

Publishing activity

Book series: Területi és Települési Kutatások (Regional and Urban Studies), Régiók Európája (Europe of the Regions), A Kárpát-Medence Régiói (Regions of Carpethian Basin), Alföldi Tanulmányok (Great Plain Studies)

Peridodical: Tér és Társadalom (Space and Society, with English summery)

Series in English language: Discussion Papers (more than 60 have been published)