Budapest Agglomeration Conference, April 26, 2012
A professional conference was held in the Ceremonial hall of the New City Hall about the possible cooperation between the capital city and its agglomeration, the common problems, the relationship between Budapest and the surrounding settlements on the 26th of April, 2012. The Budapest Agglomeration Conference was organised by the Municipality of Budapest Capital City in collaboration with the Institute of Regional Studies of the HAS Research Centre for Economic and Regional Studies. The conference publication and the presentations can be accessed on the web page of the event.
Book presentation and conference in Moscow in the framework of the Russian programme of the Hungarian EU-presidency
The Centre for Regional Studies of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the Institutes of Geography and Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, held a conference organised by the Hungarian Embassy in Moscow about perspectives of European regional cohesion policy and development directions of Russian regional policy on the 12th of May, 2011. The conference was opened by Ambassador István Íjgyártó and Academic Vladimir Kotljakov. Amongst others, the two scientific communities were represented by Sergej Artobolevskiy, Leonid Smirjagin, Olga Kuznetzova, Györgyi Barta, Gyula Horváth and Zoltán Hajdú who presented their views about certain scientific issues. Senior Advisor Wolfgang Streitenberger held a presentation about cohesion policy directions of the European Commission.