The „Lendület” Research Center for Educational and Network Studies (RECENS) at the HAS (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) offers an internship opportunity.
Duration of the internship program: February 2019 - June 2019
Working hours 6-8 hours/week
Candidates are welcome to send their application no later than February 24th by e-mail to: freigang.istvan@tk.mta.hu. Please mention „RECENS internship” in the subject of your email.
An open letter was written by the awardees of the Momentum (Lendület) Program to prime minister Viktor Orbán. We are hereby publishing the letter verbatim.
The Hungarian government to suppress the independence of the Academy of Sciences
This is an English summary page of the Hungarian ADF website.
The ADF (HASF in English) is a civil initiative of the researchers from the research institute network at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS). The Hungarian government is introducing a new system of research financing, in a way which in itself contradicts the appropriate manners of policy making, and which, after implementation, will have disastrous effects on the autonomy of scientific research and scholarship in the entire country as well as our work and life altogether. Given that our voice has not been heard either in public or during the negotiations between the HAS and the government, this initiative is meant to express our opinions about the situation and the whole process.
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Integration in emerging social networks explains academic failure and success
Christoph Stadtfeld, András Vörös, Timon Elmer, Zsófia Boda, and Isabel J. Raabe
PNAS published ahead of print December 24, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1811388115
The article "Collapse of an online social network: Burning social capital to create it?" by László Lőrincz, Júlia Koltai, Anna Fruzsina Győr and Károly Takács is published online by Social Networks.
Corruption and Political Participation in Hungary: Testing Models of Civic Engagement
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0888325418800556
Kmetty Zoltán, Tardos Róbert, Albert Fruzsina, Dávid Beáta: Mapping social milieus and cohesion patterns between 1997 and 2014.: Exploiting the potential of the occupational position generator. SOCIAL NETWORKS 55:(10) pp. 116-129. (2018)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378873317303167
Due to political reasons, the latest special issue of the conservative social science journal Századvég on rent-seeking has been removed from the internet. Our research group is shocked by and deeply condemns the re-introduction of political censorship of academic publications. This should not happen in Hungary again. We express our solidarity with the editors and authors and are willing to distribute the special issue to anyone who is interested.
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences in defense of fundamental research
The news website on the main page of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences provides an overview about fundamental research and innovation in the network of its research institutes:
http://mta.hu/mta_hirei/alapkutatas-es-innovacio-az-akademian-amit-magyarorszag-legnagyobb-kutatohalozatarol-feltetlenul-tudni-kell-108996
and brings the EVILTONGUE research supported by the European Research Council as an outstanding example.
On the new website eviltongue.tk.mta.hu, you will find all relevant information about the EVILTONGUE project (PI: Károly Takács) founded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no 648693).