Geographical Institute
RCAES of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Project coordinators:
Ágnes Erőss
Dávid Karácsonyi
Established: in 1951 Director: acad. Károly Kocsis Location: Budapest, Budaörsi ut 45. (HAS skyscraper) |
Research fields of Research Groups on Human Geography:
- population geography (employment and migration)
- urban geography (housing market, urban rehabilitation)
- political geography
- ethnic geography
- regional and settlement development
- transport and telecommunication
- industrial geograpy
Important projects of the Research Groups on Human Geography :
- Searching for neighbours: dynamics of physical and mental borders in the New Europe. EU FP 6. SEFONE, 2007-2011.
- Integrating (Trans-)National Migrants (IMIG), Swiss National Science Foundation - SCOPES,
- Ukraine in Maps, GRI HAS - Institute of Geography, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2005-2007)
- Scientific Preparation of Book-Atlas "Belarus in Maps", GRI HAS - Faculty of Geography, Belarussian State University (2010-2012)
- Accommodating Creative Knowledge: competitiveness of European metropolitan regions within the enlarged Union. EU FP 6. ACRE, 2006-2010.
- Development of Urban Green Spaces to Improve the Quality of Life in Cities and Urban Regions. EU FP 5, 2001-2004.
- Evaluating Housing and Neighbourhood Initiatives to Improve the Quality of Life in Deprived Urban Neighbourhoods and Assessing the Transferability Across Europe. EU FP 5, 2000-2003.
- Ethnic geography and cartography of the countries in the Carpatho-Pannonian area. (OTKA) 2009-2011.
Visegrad Projects until now:
- Migration Challenges to the Visegrad Countries from Eastern Europe (2009)
- Residential environment in the housing estates in V4 countries and Armenia (2012)