The Institute for Regional Studies was established in 1984 as a network-based research institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) with the task of carrying out multi-disciplinary research on urban and regional issues. The turbulence times of the past 40 years (systemic changes in CEE, EU accessions, financial crisis, Covid-19, environmental challenges) has offered the Institute a wide range of research objectives to answer in urban and regional development studies. The conference focuses on the current challenges in urban and regional development with a retrospective hint.
Welcome and Keynote speeches were hold in the Plenary session by Tibor Navracsics (Minister of Public Administration and Regional Development), Roland Jakab (Chief Executive Officer, HUN-REN Hungarian Research Network), Imre Fertő (General Director, HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies), Franziska Sielker (Professor, TU Vienna & University of Cambridge), James W. Scott (Professor, University of Eastern Finland), József Benedek (Professor, Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca).
