European Innovation Award for Kidney Transplantation Software Developed with the Participation of Mechanism Design Research Group led by Péter Biró
Péter Biró and his Mechanism Design Research Group participated in the development of a software tool called KEPsoft, which has won an Innovation Award from the European Association of Research and Technology Organisations (EARTO). The four-member consortium representing Hungary’s ELTE KRTK Institute of Economics, founded with the support of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, as […]
The Governance and Development Policy Dimensions of the Success of Rural Proofing – new research article by István Finta in European Countryside
The Governance and Development Policy Dimensions of the Success of Rural Proofing István Finta European Countryside – Volume 17 (2025): Issue 3 (September 2025) Abstract Faced with different problems and growth opportunities, regions pose challenges for national central governments and even for the European Union as a whole, requiring the development of area-sensitive interventions such as rural proofing. Due to […]
When Ethical Meets Entrepreneurial: How SME Leaders in Resource-Constrained Economies Can Build Sustainable Competitive Advantage – by Szilárd Podruzsik
When Ethical Meets Entrepreneurial: How SME Leaders in Resource-Constrained Economies Can Build Sustainable Competitive Advantage by Szilárd Podruzsik In Jordan’s challenging business environment – marked by severe water scarcity, high unemployment, and the integration of over 1.3 million refugees – SMEs face an uncomfortable truth: approximately 70% fail within their first five years. Yet […]
Why Sri Lanka’s smallholder rice farmers hold the key to sustainable water management – by Imre Fertő
Why Sri Lanka’s smallholder rice farmers hold the key to sustainable water management by Imre Fertő Water is both the lifeblood and the Achilles’ heel of Sri Lanka’s rice economy. For generations, the island’s ancient irrigation systems have sustained paddy cultivation—the foundation of food security and rural livelihoods. Yet, as climate variability intensifies, these same […]
Paradiplomacy in Hungary: A New Research Topic? – book chapter by Balázs Brucker and Zsuzsanna Zsibók
Paradiplomacy in Hungary: a new research topic? Balázs Brucker & Zsuzsanna Zsibók In: The paradiplomacy worldwide. TIP – Trabajos de Investigación en Paradiplomacia” (year 1). University of Lodz; Asociación Civil Paradiplomacia, Lódz, Buenos Aires, pp. 126-143 Volume 1. Theoretical Approaches ‘The Paradiplomacy Worldwide’: http://bit.ly/47I9skZ Volume 2. Practical Approaches ‘The Paradiplomacy Worldwide’: http://bit.ly/45HZjSS Abstract […]
New research articles by Péter Balogh and László Lőrincz in the special issue of Intersections – East European Journal of Society and Politics, titled: Text as Data
Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics – Vol. 11 No. 1 (2025): Text as Data – Eastern and Central European political discourses from the perspective of computational social science – Part 2 – special issue ELTE Centre for Social Sciences – Published: 2025-09-18 What else comes with a geographical concept beyond geography? […]
Demographic Transformation, Eroding Social Capital and Segregation on Outskirt Areas of Hungarian Cities – by Gábor Vasárus
Demographic Transformation, Eroding Social Capital and Segregation on Outskirt Areas of Hungarian Cities by Gábor Vasárus The spatial dynamics of Hungarian urban outskirts reveal a multifaceted and multi-scalar picture of segregation. While certain phases have seen a decline in micro-level segregation due to the mosaic-like arrival of new residents, sharp differentiation between neighbourhoods is […]
Popular Maximum-Utility Matchings with Matroid Constraints – new co-authored article by Gergely Csáji in Mathematics of Operations Research journal
Popular Maximum-Utility Matchings with Matroid Constraints Gergely Csáji, Tamás Király, Kenjiro Takazawa, Yu Yokoi Mathematics of Operations Research – Published Online:23 Sep 2025 Abstract We investigate weighted settings of popular matching problems with matroid constraints. The concept of popularity was originally defined for matchings in bipartite graphs, where vertices have preferences over the incident […]
Sustainable Urban Food Production with a Special Focus on Permaculture from Hungarian Perspectives – by Andrea Uszkai
Sustainable Urban Food Production with a Special Focus on Permaculture from Hungarian Perspectives Andrea Uszkai In recent years in Hungary, interest in sustainable agriculture and food systems has grown, especially in the context of accelerating climate change. Conventional agriculture—highly mechanized, input-intensive, and monoculture-based—faces mounting criticism for its environmental impacts (e.g. soil degradation, biodiversity loss). […]
Interview with Andrea Szalavetz and new research articles by Tamás Csontos and Emese Dobos in the Special Issue of Köz-gazdaság
Köz-gazdaság – Review of Economic Theory and Policy Vol 20 No 3 (2025) – Published: 2025-09-26 – Special Issue – Ukraine’s reconstruction and integration. Finding Alternative Growth Engines in Central and Eastern Europe Interview with Andrea Szalavetz pages 8-16 PDF Return of Industrial Policy in the V4 Countries: Insights From the NIPO […]
