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Special issue of the Romanian Review of Regional Studies published with articles by our researchers Read more

Special issue related to the Romanian-Hungarian bilateral project Read more

Hell, or Heaven – “The crisis in the country is so severe that it’s hard to believe” Read more

First results from a new research project of Ákos Bodor, Márk Hegedüs and Péter Szegedi Read more

Our colleagues took part at the Conference of Young Geographers in Bucharest Read more

We also won the special prize at the conference Read more

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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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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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2025.01.06. | 10:18

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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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2025.01.02. | 10:04

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Our colleagues took part at the Conference of Young Geographers in ...

2024.12.18. | 08:29

We also won the special prize at the conference

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2024.12.18. | 08:29

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Closing the Urban Network Research for the Central and Lower Danube in ...

2024.12.18. | 07:46

Our colleagues took part on a workshop and on a study trip in Bukarest

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2024.12.18. | 07:46

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Balázs Brucker gave lectures at Paradiplomacy Laboratory of the ...

2024.12.17. | 09:07

Our colleague Balázs Brucker spent 6 days in Lodz at the invitation of the Paradiplomacy Laboratory of the University of Lodz

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2024.12.17. | 09:07

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Petra Kinga Kézai and her co-authors examine the spatial distribution ...

2024.12.16. | 13:00

Impact of proximity from chemical and pharmaceutical universities on startup founding: empirical evidence from the Visegrad countries

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2024.12.16. | 13:00

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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.