The Transdanubian Research Institute (Dunántúli Tudományos Intézet in Hungarian) founded in year 1943. This is an excellent opportunity to invite our international and national academic partners; to bring together well-known senior experts and talented junior research fellows; and of course, to discuss fruitfully and prospectively about the current research developments on regional policy and territorial cohesion. The international conference will take place on the 27th–28th of June 2013 in the Zsolnay Cultural Quarter of Pécs. The working language of the symposium is English. For the conference programme please click at the link below.

The scientific institute based in Moscow was established in 1996 for the purpose of the development of international regional scientific cooperation and the coordination of spatial research. Its founding president is the internationally Russian regional scientific researcher, academic Alekszandr Granberg. Gyula Horváth was granted membership during the general assembly of the Academy on the 13th of June, 2013. His appointment was a sign of the recognition of the role he played in the dissemination of regional science in Russia, his scientific results, the development of Eastern European regional research collaboration and the international fame of the research institute under his former leadership.

Ilona Pálné Kovács, scientific advisor of the Institute for Regional Studies of CERS HAS was elected by the General Assembly of the HAS corresponding member of HAS on the 6th of May 2013. Ilona Pálné Kovács (born in Pécs, 1954) graduated as a lawyer (1978), CSc in political science (1988), DSc in regional science (2000). From 2002 she has been a full time professor at the Department for Political Studies of University of Pécs, founder and head of the doctoral programme. She has been a researcher of the Transdanubian Research Institute from 1978, between 1997-2012 she was the director of TRI.

The Institute of Regional Studies sadly announces the death of former colleague Professor József Tóth, geographist, rector emeritus of the University of Pécs, the first Deputy Director-general of the former Centre for Regional Studies. József Tóth passed away on February 7, 2013 in Pécs, following a short battle with incurable illness. Tóth’s funeral service will be held February 22, at 10:30 at Pécs Cemetery.

With the approval of the President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences the Director General of the of HAS Research Centre for Economic and Regional Studies appointed Éva Perger Senior Research Fellow, Head of the Great Plain Research Department Commissioned Director of the Institute of Regional Studies as of January 25, 2013.

The Hungarian Regional Science Association granted Pro Regional Science Prestigious Title to Scientific Advisor of Institute for Regional Studies, Gyula Horváth in order to acknowledge his outstanding research, educational and science building activities. The HRSA grants this title to a natural person whose outstanding activities contribute to the development of regional science and the realisation of the objectives of the Association. The Pro Regional Science Title is valid for a lifetime. The General Assembly decides about its holder based on the propositions of the Presidency. The Award was granted for the first time during the 10th Annual Meeting of HRSA on November 22, 2012.