1. Address

Institute for Regional Studies
Centre for Economic and Regional Studies
7621 Pécs, Papnövelde u. 22.
Postal address: 7601 Pécs, P.O. Box 199.
Phone: +36 (72) 523 800
 

 

2. Management

Director

Dr. Viktor Varjú, PhD (geography), senior research fellow
Phone: +36 (72) 523 800
E-mail: varju.viktor@krtk.hu

Central administration of the Institute

Dr. Krisztina Slachta, PhD (history), scientific secretary
Phone: +36 (72) 523 800
Fax: +36 (72) 523 806
E-mail: slachta.krisztina@krtk.hu

Katalin Fehér, project assistant
Phone: +36 (1) 224 6700
E-mail: feher.katalin@krtk.hu

 

Head of Departments

Great Plain Research Department

Dr. Gábor Velkey, PhD (regional science), research fellow
Phone: +36 (66) 328 577
Fax: +36 (66) 441 801
E-mail: velkey.gabor@krtk.hu

Kecskemét Research Group

Dr. József Lennert, PhD (geography), research fellow
Telefon: +36 (76) 502 840
Fax: +36 (76) 502 849
E-mail: lennert.jozsef@krtk.hu

Transdanubian Research Department

Dr. Szilárd Rácz, PhD (economics), research fellow
Phone: +36 (72) 523 800
Fax: +36 (72) 523 806
E-mail: racz.szilard@krtk.hu

Central and North Hungarian Research Department

Dr. Bálint Koós, PhD (business and organisation studies), research fellow
Phone: +36 (1)  224 6700
E-mail: koos.balint@krtk.hu

West Hungarian Research Department

Dr. Tamás Hardi, PhD (geography), senior research fellow
Phone: +36 (96) 516 570
Fax: +36 (96) 516 579
E-mail: hardi.tamas@krtk.hu

 

3. Research staff

Research staff by age groups, December 2017

 

Scientific position	below 30 yrs	31–35 yrs	36–40 yrs	41–45 yrs	46–50 yrs	51–60 yrs	over 61 yrs	Total
Research professor	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	1
Scientific advisor	–	–	–	–	–	–	3	3
Scientific professor emeritus/emerita	–	–	–	–	–	–	4	4
Senior research fellow	–	–	1	2	5	3	4	15
Research fellow	–	6	5	6	4	2	1	24
Junior research fellow	4	7	4	1	–	–	–	16
Total	4	13	10	9	9	5	13	63

 

 

Research staff (below 70 years) with scientific qualifications, December 2017

 

Type	Number	% of research staff
Member of the HAS	1	1,7
Doctor of Sciences	3	5,1
Candidate of Sciences, PhD	45	76,3
Total	49	83,1

 

 

4. Basic activities and tasks

Basic research tasks

• The driving forces of regional development in Europe
• Analysis of regional transformation processes in Central and Eastern Europe
• Research on the regions of the Carpathian Basin
• Prospective directions of European Union regional policy
• Laying down the foundations of polycentric urban development
• Development tendencies of the Hungarian settlement network and spatial structure
• Analyses on regional competitiveness
• Research on the spatial structure of Hungarian industry
• The influence of the tertiary sector on spatial development
• The structural characteristics of rural areas
• Research on the situation of disadvantaged areas and marginalised groups
• Decentralisation and regionalism
• Research on the Hungarian system of territorial public administration
• Research on crossborder relationships
• Realising Central and Eastern European (Russian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbain, Polish, Ukrainian) bilateral academic cooperation programmes

 

Dissemination of research results

 

a) Publication activities

• Publishing the quarterly journal Tér és Társadalom (Space and Society), established in 1987
• Alföldi Tanulmányok (Great Plain Studies), annual series
• Területi és Települési Kutatások (Regional and Settlement Studies) monograph series (with Dialóg Campus publishing house, 32 volumes)
• A Kárpát-medence régiói (Regions of the Carpathian Basin) monograph series (15 planned volumes, 11 published to date)
• Régiók Európája (Europe of the Regions) series (3 volumes)
• Határ menti kutatások (Border Studies) series (6 volumes)
• Discussion Papers, English series (70 volumes and 8 special issues)
• Conference series (Village Conference, 7 volumes; Great Plain Congress, 4 volumes)

b) Higher education

• Leading role in PhD schools of regional studies (Pécs, Győr, Debrecen)
• Leading role in MSc programmes related to regional and environmental economic policy (Pécs, Győr)
• Participation in MSc programmes and PhD schools (Budapest, Miskolc, Szeged, Kaposvár, Debrecen, Székesfehérvár)
• The organisation and operation of regional science-related research groups in the Carpathian Basin (Hungarian University Institute: Cluj; Sapientia Transylvanian Hungarian University of Sciences: Miercurea-Ciuc; Regional Science Association: Subotica; János Selye University: Komárno) 

c) Managing the public bodies of Hungarian regional sciences

• HAS Regional Science Committee
• Hungarian Regional Science Association
• Regional and settlement development sub-committees of the HAS’s regional committee

 

Research infrastructure

 

a) Libraries (1 main library, 2 sub-libraries, 60,000 total library units, 45 international and 60 domestic journal subscriptions)

b) Computer centre (15 databases, network maintainance)

c) Border area research and documentation centre

• Győr (Hungarian–Slovakian–Austrian)
• Békéscsaba (Hungarian–Serbian–Romanian)

 

5. Other activities

• Participation in EU Framework Programmes 5–7
• Participation in other EU research programmes (DG Regio, Research, Enlargement)
• Participation in Phare, Interreg, Cadses programmes
• The complex analysis of microregions, the preparation of microregional, regionnal and innovation strategies
• Regional environmental protection research
• The preparation of city incorporation documents
• Microregional and regional social mapping
• Multi-year research agreements with economic actors (e.g. Paks Nuclear Power Plant)

 

6. Libraries

 

Location	Books (1000)	Journals	Library staff
Pécs	31	190	3
Győr	3	27	2
Békéscsaba	15	75	1
Kecskemét	5	22	1
Other	3	16	–
Total	57	330	7