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On March 21, 2012 Márton Czirfusz, junior research fellow at the Central and North Hungarian Research Department defended his PhD dissertation (summa cum laude, 96%) entitled Occupational restructuring as a scientific concept in Hungarian human geography.

New address: Budaörsi út 45. H-1112 Budapest, Hungary

On December 5, 2011 Gergely Tagai, junior research fellow at the Central and North Hungarian Research Institute defended his PhD dissertation (summa cum laude, 100%) entitled Spatial interaction models in regional studies.

CRS HAS CNHRI will organise with a Slovakian and a Czech partner two workshops in 2012. The project is financed by the Visegrad Fund.

A roundtable discussion took place on 17 May 2011 following a research project led by Györgyi Barta.

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 Kuznetsova, 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.

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